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Principal, SRE

Chicago, IL💼 Full-time💰 $137,400–$137,400🗓 2026-09-11 → 2026-09-26

Core

Define architectural vision and resiliency strategy for critical platforms, embedding reliability principles into system design decisions and lifecycle governance at enterprise scale.

Role type

Principal Site Reliability Architect / Engineer

Builds

Resiliency guidelines, reference architectures, automation logic for infrastructure configuration and application lifecycle management, and observability capabilities.

Domain

Financial services / Cloud and on-prem infrastructure / Distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Resiliency architecture design, distributed systems knowledge, observability standards (metrics, logging, tracing), Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipeline automation, scripting/programming (Python, C#, Java), IaC/Configuration Management (Terraform, Ansible, etc.), incident root cause analysis

Preferred skills

Enterprise-scale system architecture, maturity model development, community of practice leadership

Technologies

Terraform, Bicep, ARM, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Python, C#, Java

Responsibilities

Create and maintain resiliency guidelines; guide adoption of resilient software and infrastructure architectures; provide guidance in incident response and root cause analysis; build infrastructure configuration and application management automation; foster a broader community of practice

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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