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SRE- SR Site Reliability Engineer

Date Posted: Apr 13, 2026

Job #1687160
Contract
Chicago, Illinois, USA
60 - 65 per hour (USD)

We have partnered with our client in their search for a Senior SRE to work CST hours.

Responsibilities

  • Applies software engineering practices to IT operations tasks to maintain a scalable and reliable production environment for running software services create a bridge between development and operations by applying a software engineering mindset to system administration topics.
  • Writing and developing code to automate processes, such as analyzing logs, testing production environments and responding to any issues, so this engineer will be an expert in writing code.

Skills Required

  • Very strong SRE/DevOps skills and experience to be a self starter, partner with the other SRE in the team, support DEV squads as required
  • Strong with cloud infrastructure(IAC with Terraform) experience, blue-green deployments, handling NFRs such as scaling(horizontal, vertical), security postures/resiliency
  • Through understanding of Azure cloud, supporting deployments of Java and Python based micro-services, different databases, experience with Azure Container app(ACA) along with K8/AKS is desired
  • Experience with messaging systems, web-hooks, Azure functions
  • Experience handling Azure OpenAI deployments is highly valued
  • Research, learn and apply mindset, ability to multi-task

Education & Work Experience

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, information technology, or relevant field.
  • Proven background working in a technical, IT related position.
  • 3-5years, if more that's fine, Bachelors degree required.
    * Strong hands-on experience with Azure, GitHub pipelines.
    * Good communication to describe problems and solutions
    * Azure certification is valued, any MLOps, LLMOps experience highly valued

Title Senior SRE

Location CST REMOTE

Client Industry Insurance

Compensation

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