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Principal Site Reliability Engineer / Hybrid

Chicago, IL, US • Posted 2 days ago • Updated 10 hours ago

Full Time

On-site

USD 11.00 per hour

Motion Recruitment Partners, LLC

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Job Details

Skills

Scalability
Systems Engineering
Leadership
Mentorship
Technical Direction
Amazon Web Services
Cloud Computing
C++
Computer Science
Computer Engineering
Information Systems
Payments
Financial Services
Scripting
Java
Python
Kubernetes
Terraform
Grafana
Linux
DevOps
Software Engineering
Dashboard
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
Automated Testing
Incident Management
Reliability Engineering
PPO
Insurance
FSA
Health Care
Apache Maven
SAP BASIS

Scalability
Systems Engineering
Leadership
Mentorship
Technical Direction
Amazon Web Services
Cloud Computing
C++
Computer Science
Computer Engineering
Information Systems
Payments
Financial Services
Scripting
Java
Python
Kubernetes
Terraform
Grafana
Linux
DevOps
Software Engineering
Dashboard
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
Automated Testing
Incident Management
Reliability Engineering
PPO
Insurance
FSA
Health Care
Apache Maven
SAP BASIS

Summary

Principal Site Reliability Engineer
An established fintech institution is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to apply software engineering and systems engineering best practices to ensure the stability, scalability, and overall health of critical production services. This full-time position is hybrid, with 3 days on-site in Downtown Chicago and 2 days remote.
This is a highly influential Principal-level role with significant impact on engineering and reliability strategy. This role collaborates with engineering and technology teams to build reliable, scalable, and observable systems throughout their lifecycle. The Principal SRE leads technical initiatives across the enterprise by leveraging data-driven engineering, automation, and strong architectural expertise to solve complex challenges and align teams around scalable solutions.
Required Skills & Experience

15+ years of professional experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cloud/Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering.
Strong leadership capabilities including the ability to mentor junior engineers and the capacity to drive architecture decisions and influence technical direction.
The ability to operates with significant autonomy across the organization's most consequential reliability challenges.
Proven track record of using objective analysis and technical expertise to validate assumptions, assess risks, and guide engineering decisions

Desired Skills & Experience

AWS/Cloud experience
C++ experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Information Systems
Experience in the Security, Payments, or Financial Services industries

What You Will Be Doing
Tech Breakdown

Languages/scripting: Java, Python
Containers/clusters: Kubernetes
IaC: Terraform
Observability/monitoring: Datadog, Grafana
OS: Linux

Daily Responsibilities

Apply automation, DevOps, and software engineering best practices to improve how services are built, deployed, monitored, and maintained.
Use data and analysis to identify reliability risks, validate solutions, and guide technical decisions.
Define and enhance service reliability metrics, objectives, and performance standards.
Improve system observability through monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and dashboards.
Drive continuous improvements in CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automation, testing, incident response, and system reliability.
Identify recurring production issues and implement long-term improvements in code, architecture, tooling, and operational processes.

The Offer
This role is bonus eligible.
You will receive the following benefits:

Competitive medical (PPO and HDHP), dental, and vision insurance, plus employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) for healthcare, commuting, and dependent care expenses.
Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match on the first 6% of employee contributions, available upon eligibility.
Flexible Time Off (FTO) for salaried employees, generous PTO for hourly employees, 11 paid company holidays, and a paid volunteer day.
Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave to support growing families.
Access to Maven's comprehensive family planning benefits, including fertility treatments, egg freezing, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy and postpartum care, pediatric support, and return-to-work resources.

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

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.

Dice Id: 10105282
Position Id: 888846
Posted 2 days ago

Company Info

About Motion Recruitment Partners, LLC

Motion Recruitment delivers IT Talent Solutions for Contract, Direct Hire, Managed Solutions and Statement of Work to all of North America from our 21 delivery centers. Our high-touch, specialized, team-based recruitment model’s success is proven through our exemplary track record in filling the most challenging IT positions for startup and enterprise clients alike. Our hyper-specialized tech focus results in a truly consultative approach for both our clients and candidates, within our recruiting areas of expertise: Software, Mobile, Data, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Product + UX and Functional.

Motion also delivers IT Consulting Solutions through the Motion Consulting Group (MCG) that create true digital transformation for IT projects in Agile Development & Coaching, DevOps & DevSecOps Solutions, and Managed Services for IT Operations.

We’re also the proud creators of Tech in Motion and the Timmy Awards, our North American community platform, events series and award program that connects over 250,000 tech enthusiasts to meet, learn, and innovate.

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