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Senior DevOps/SRE Engineer

SEi

  • Chicago, Illinois
  • 12 days ago
  • $140,000–$170,000 Per Year

Highlights

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including comprehensive care for your physical and mental well-being, a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, a hybrid working environment for most roles, support for working parents and flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about. Hands-on, demonstrable experience designing andoperatingAWS environments, and enabling application teams to adopt AWS correctly (networking, IAM, security, reliability, and cost awareness).

Numbers & Facts

LocationChicago, Illinois
Salary$140,000–$170,000 Per Year

Description

We are looking for aSeniorSite Reliability Engineer to work as part of a lean,product‑focusedengineering organization. This role is about building andoperatingreliablecloud‑basedsystems by writing code, automating infrastructure and delivery workflows, and reducing friction for developers and users. You will work closely with product and application engineers to design, deploy, andoperatesystems with clear ownership and practical engineering judgment. We expect you to use modern tooling, includingAI‑assistedtools whereappropriate, to speed up automation, troubleshooting, and operations whileremainingaccountable for correctness, security, and reliability. This role favors simple, effective solutions,hands‑onownership, and continuous improvement within small Agile teams.

What you will do:

  • Design, build, andoperatecloud infrastructure for critical production andnon‑productionapplications with reliability and simplicity as primary goals

  • Architect and evolve multi-account AWS foundations (organizations, accounts, IAM boundaries, guardrails, and environment separation) to enable secure, scalable delivery

  • Design andoperatecloud networking architecture (VPCs, routing, segmentation, ingress/egress, connectivity patterns) to support reliability, security, and compliance requirements

  • Treat reliability, security, and compliance asfirst‑classdesign concerns throughout the system lifecycle

  • Build tooling and automation that reduces errors, shortens recovery time, and improvesday‑to‑dayoperations

  • Implementmonitoring, logging, and alerting that make system behavior observable and actionable

  • UseAI‑assistedtools to accelerate infrastructure delivery, automation, troubleshooting, androot‑causeanalysis, applying engineering judgment tovalidateoutcomes

  • Implement reliability guardrails for releases (progressive delivery, safe rollbacks, change risk controls) and provide production support during deployments.

  • Participatein incident response, perform root cause analysis, and drive durable improvements that prevent recurrence

  • Workclosely with application engineers toco‑ownsystem design, operation, and continuous improvement

  • Maintainclear, lightweight documentation that supports shared ownership and effectiveon‑calloperations

What we need from you:

  • BA/BS, in a related technical field; or the equivalent in education and work experience 

  • 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or similar roles supporting application teams running production services 

  • Strong CI/CD experience (Jenkins and Git-based workflows preferred), including building secure, reliable pipelines and enabling teams to ship safely 

  • Experience implementing and operating observability platforms (logging/metrics/alerting); Elastic Stack/OpenSearch experience is a plus 

  • Hands-on, demonstrable experience designing andoperatingAWS environments, and enabling application teams to adopt AWS correctly (networking, IAM, security, reliability, and cost awareness) 

  • Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform preferred; CloudFormation acceptable), including building reusable modules/patterns and managing changes through review and automation 

  • Experience supporting CI/CD builds and deployment patterns for common application stacks (for example Java, NodeJS, and .NET) 

  • Experience scripting in Bash, Python, or PowerShell 

  • Experience working on large scale cloud-based web applications

What we would like from you:

  • Ability to clearly communicate both verbally and in writing with client and team members, including experience documenting and presenting findings

  • Excellent analytical skills, organizational abilities, and problem-solving skills

  • Familiarity with AI agentic development tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf) and practical experience applying them to infrastructure and operations workflows

  • Self-starter who works efficiently in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities and a geographically distributed team

  • Ability to think creatively and seekoptimumsolutions

  • Ability to grasp loosely defined concepts and transform them into tangible results and key deliverables 

  • Diagnostic skills with the ability to analyze technical,businessand financial issues and options

  • Ability to infer frompreviousexamples, willingness to understand how an application is put together

  • Action-oriented, with the ability to quickly deal with change

  • Someone who will embody our SEI Values of courage, integrity, collaboration, inclusion,connectionand fun.

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The base salary pay for this role is $140,000 - $170,000 per year.

This position will also be eligible to earn a discretionary bonus each year, subject to company approval.

SEI’s competitive advantage:

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including comprehensive care for your physical and mental well-being, a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, a hybrid working environment for most roles, support for working parents and flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about. 

Benefits include healthcare (medical, dental, vision, prescription, wellness, EAP, FSA), life and disability insurance (premiums paid for base coverage), 401(k) match, education assistance, commuter benefits, up to 11 paid holidays/year, 21 days PTO/year pro-rated for new hires which increases over time, paid parental leave, back-up childcare arrangements, paid volunteer days, a discounted stock purchase plan, investment options, access to thriving employee networks and more.

We are a technology and asset management company delivering on our promise of building brave futures (SM)—for our clients, our communities, and ourselves.  Come build your brave future at SEI.  

SEI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and so much more…

After over 50 years in business, SEI remains a leading global provider of investment processing, investment management, and investment operations solutions. Reflecting our experience within financial services and financial technology our offices encompass an open floor plan and numerous art installations designed to encourage innovation and creativity in our workforce. We recognize that our people are our most valuable asset and that a healthy, happy, and motivated workforce is key to our continued growth. At SEI, we’re (literally) invested in your success. We offer our employees paid parental leave, back-up childcare arrangements, paid volunteer days, education assistance and access to thriving employee networks. 

SEI is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

AI Acceptable Use in the application and interview process:

SEI acknowledges the growing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) tools into individuals’ personal and professional lives.  If you intend to incorporate the use of any AI tools at any stage of the application and/or interview process, please ensure you have reviewed and adhere to our AI use guidelines.   

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