Site Reliability Engineer
Piper Sandler is a company that connects capital with opportunity to build a better future. They are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join their Platform Engineering team in Greenwich, CT, where the engineer will operate and improve the reliability of a large-scale, hybrid infrastructure across various cloud environments and on-premises data centers.
Responsibilities
- Monitor production systems and respond to incidents using enterprise observability tooling, contributing to alerting, dashboards, and SLO tracking
- Assist in operating and maintaining on-premises colocation and cloud infrastructure across compute, storage, networking, and enterprise middleware layers
- Support multi-cloud operations across Azure, AWS, and GCP, including compute, networking, storage, and identity management
- Contribute to automation and Infrastructure-as-Code initiatives to reduce toil and improve consistency across environments
- Participate in DevSecOps and GitOps workflows, including CI/CD pipelines and policy enforcement
- Support cloud security posture management efforts, helping remediate misconfigurations and vulnerabilities across cloud environments
- Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to blameless post-incident reviews
- Document runbooks, procedures, and system configurations to support team knowledge sharing
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent hands-on experience
- Foundational understanding of Linux and/or Windows server operating systems
- Basic knowledge of networking concepts: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, and firewalls
- Exposure to at least one scripting or programming language (Python, Bash, or PowerShell)
- Familiarity with cloud computing concepts across one or more of Azure, AWS, or GCP
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a desire to learn in a fast-paced environment
- Effective written and verbal communication skills with the ability to document technical processes clearly
- Experience in infrastructure, cloud, DevOps, or SRE-related roles
- Hands-on exposure to observability or monitoring tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar)
- Familiarity with IaC tools such as Terraform or Ansible and GitOps workflows
- Experience with containerization or orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Cloud certifications (AWS Cloud Practitioner, Azure Fundamentals AZ-900, GCP Associate, or equivalent)
- Familiarity with cloud security posture or compliance concepts
Benefits
- Annual incentive compensation
- Competitive with the market
Company Overview
Company H1B Sponsorship