AWS SRE (Local to Naperville, IL ONLY)

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled AWS Cloud Engineer with SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) skills to support and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure solutions in AWS. The ideal candidate will be a key member of the Platform engineering team and ensure service uptime, provide infrastructure architecture guidance to support modern cloud-native applications with high performance and resilience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and implement resilient cloud infrastructure using AWS services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda, S3, CloudFormation, etc.
• Lead SRE practices such as monitoring, alerting, incident response, and post-mortems.
• Design and enforce infrastructure-as-code (IaC) strategies using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment and testing.
• Establish observability frameworks using tools like CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK.
• Automation of finops processes and scaling capabilities in the AWS environments.
• Run and drive Proof of concepts for new EKS setup for multiple applications using automation tools like ArgoCD and Kubernetes management platforms.
• Proficiency in scripting like python and AWS CLI to create Lambda function to exports and forward/integrate logs as well as S3 files with multiple tools.
• Define and monitor SLOs/SLIs, conduct capacity planning, and performance tuning.
• Collaborate with security, development, and operations teams to ensure end-to-end system reliability and compliance.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years in IT operations or DevOps roles, with 5+ years in a SRE capacity. AWS certification is a plus
• Strong expertise with AWS cloud services and architecture.
• Proficiency in Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar IaC tools.
• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS preferred), containers, and microservices.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Solid experience in monitoring and alerting systems.
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, etc.).
• Excellent problem-solving and incident management skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer).
• Experience with multi-account AWS landing zones and service control policies (SCPs).
• Knowledge of FinOps, cost optimization, and security best practices.
• Familiarity with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd) and GitOps practices.