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Site Reliability Engineer (GCP)

Motion Recruitment
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 3/19/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/22/2026
This global AI manufacturing platform is hiring a full time Site Reliability Engineer in Chicago. You’ll design and operate secure, highly available infrastructure in GCP (with multi-cloud exposure), lead Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code, manage Kubernetes/Docker environments, and build CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD) supporting AI/ML workloads. The role focuses on DevSecOps, compliance in regulated industries (Aerospace & Defense), observability (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK), automation in Python or Go, and incident response ownership for U.S. operations.

This is a high-ownership role for a security-first engineer who wants real impact. You’ll help define U.S. infrastructure strategy, influence compliance and reliability standards, and collaborate with a global engineering team in a fast-scaling environment. Strong growth opportunity, meaningful technical scope, and clear visibility into leadership.

Required Skills & Experience

  • 4 years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Systems Engineering with cloud-based SaaS platforms
  • Deep Terraform and Infrastructure as Code expertise with security best practices
  • Proficiency in Python and other scripting/programming languages
  • Modern CI/CD experience (Github Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Spinnaker) including AI/ML workloads
  • Strong cloud platform experience, preferably GCP (AWS, Azure experience also valuable for future multi-cloud deployments)

Desired Skills & Experience

  • Experience building and optimizing containers (Docker) and configuring orchestration (Kubernetes)
  • Monitoring tools experience (Datadog, Prometheus, LogBungler, Grafana, etc.)
  • Regulated industry experience (Aerospace & Defense, Finance, Healthcare) with experience building secure platforms
  • DevSecOps principles and security integration experience

What You Will Be Doing

Tech Breakdown

  • 50% Infrastructure & Architecture
  • 50% CI/CD & DevSecOps

Daily Responsibilities

  • 50% Hands On
  • 50% Team Collaboration

The Offer

You Will Receive The Following Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • Vacation Time
  • Stock Options

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.

Posted By: Charles Deuter

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