What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Site Reliability Engineer position at State of Wisconsin Investment Board?
Sophisticated Work. In a Great City. Making a Difference.
The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) manages more than $178 billion in assets, including those of the fully-funded Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS). SWIB operates at a level more often seen in top-tier global asset managers than in typical public pension funds. SWIB is a home for top talent. Approximately 61 percent of SWIB’s investment professionals are Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholders.
The City of Madison, the state capitol and home of Wisconsin’s flagship university, makes regular appearances on lists of best places to live, eat, and play. SWIB offers a modern workspace, hybrid work options, and competitive compensation and benefits.
Serving over 703,000 WRS beneficiaries, SWIB is driven by a clear mission: securing the financial future of those who serve Wisconsin. When you work at SWIB, you know your work matters.
Job Description
Position Overview:
We are seeking a motivated and technically strong Site Reliability Engineer to help build, operate, and evolve SWIB’s cloud native technology stack. This role will contribute across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), partnering closely with application, data, and infrastructure teams to improve reliability, performance, security, and developer experience.
The ideal candidate has hands-on experience designing and operating production cloud systems, enjoys automation and problem-solving, and is eager to grow into broader architectural and leadership responsibilities over time.
Key Responsibilities
Pursuant to our Hybrid Remote Work Policy, all staff have the flexibility to work remotely, but are required to have a weekly presence in our offices, the frequency of which is dependent on their distance from office. Staff are not required to reside locally; however, we offer relocation reimbursement to the Dane County area per our policy.
All SWIB employees are subject to SWIB’s Ethics Policy and Personal Trade Approvals Policy. These policies include restrictions on outside business activities and employment and have limits on personal trading. You may request copies of these policies from SWIB’s talent acquisition team and any questions can be answered by SWIB’s compliance team.
The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) manages more than $178 billion in assets, including those of the fully-funded Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS). SWIB operates at a level more often seen in top-tier global asset managers than in typical public pension funds. SWIB is a home for top talent. Approximately 61 percent of SWIB’s investment professionals are Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholders.
The City of Madison, the state capitol and home of Wisconsin’s flagship university, makes regular appearances on lists of best places to live, eat, and play. SWIB offers a modern workspace, hybrid work options, and competitive compensation and benefits.
Serving over 703,000 WRS beneficiaries, SWIB is driven by a clear mission: securing the financial future of those who serve Wisconsin. When you work at SWIB, you know your work matters.
Job Description
Position Overview:
We are seeking a motivated and technically strong Site Reliability Engineer to help build, operate, and evolve SWIB’s cloud native technology stack. This role will contribute across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), partnering closely with application, data, and infrastructure teams to improve reliability, performance, security, and developer experience.
The ideal candidate has hands-on experience designing and operating production cloud systems, enjoys automation and problem-solving, and is eager to grow into broader architectural and leadership responsibilities over time.
Key Responsibilities
- Function as subject matter expert in the areas of delivering and operating reliable, performant, robust, and secure applications, with an emphasis on multi-region and multi-cloud patterns.
- Work with the development teams to design, document, create and maintain highly available systems.
- Design, implement, and manage centralized monitoring solutions that provide expedient actionable feedback to the development teams.
- Partner with the application development teams to create flows, processes, automation, and tooling.
- Facilitate the evaluation, adoption, and integration of AI into the software delivery platform
- Create an environment of continuous experimentation and learning.
- Contribute to evolution of our architecture (cloud-focused) to increase its flexibility and ease of use.
- Follow technology trends/tools and recommend improvements to our technology when appropriate.
- Mentor new or less senior members of the team.
- Share experience, knowledge, and ideas to the team to improve processes and productivity.
- Provide tier 2 and 3 escalations for related issues and questions.
- Participate in continuous improvement initiatives to enhance support processes, reduce incidents, and improve overall application reliability and user satisfaction.
- Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure the SRE function remains cutting-edge and effective.
- Enablement mindset and attitude – you win when teams win
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- 3 years of professional Site Reliability Engineering experience (or equivalent demonstrated impact)
- Hands-on development experience in a modern programming language (Python preferred)
- Hands-on experience with the Cloud in a production environment (AWS preferred)
- Solid experience implementing Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or OpenTofu preferred)
- Background in implementing and delivering complex application architectures, including distributed computing and event-based architecture
- Hands-on experience building and running CICD infrastructure (GitLab preferred)
- Experience implementing and operating container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, EKS, Elastic Container Service (ECS)
- Foundational understanding of information security concepts
- Experience implementing and operating monitoring tools such as Sentry, Prometheus, and Datadog
- Familiarity with version control systems such as Git
- Working experience with agile methodologies
- Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Competitive total cash compensation, based on AON (formerly McLagan) industry benchmarks
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Educational and training opportunities
- Tuition reimbursement
- Challenging work in a professional environment
- Hybrid work environment
Pursuant to our Hybrid Remote Work Policy, all staff have the flexibility to work remotely, but are required to have a weekly presence in our offices, the frequency of which is dependent on their distance from office. Staff are not required to reside locally; however, we offer relocation reimbursement to the Dane County area per our policy.
All SWIB employees are subject to SWIB’s Ethics Policy and Personal Trade Approvals Policy. These policies include restrictions on outside business activities and employment and have limits on personal trading. You may request copies of these policies from SWIB’s talent acquisition team and any questions can be answered by SWIB’s compliance team.