Associate Principal, Site Reliability Engineer

Job Title: Associate Principal, Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Chicago, IL or Dallas, TX– Onsite 3 Days per Week
Type: Direct Hire
Benefits: Competitive Salary ($118,300.00 - $170,000) plus 8-15% target bonus.Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, PTO, paid holidays, 401(k) with match, professional development, collaborative culture, work-life balance

Summary
Chamberlain Advisors is partnering with a leading equity derivatives clearing organization to hire a a highly skilled Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support the reliability, availability, and performance of our next-generation cloud platforms. This role is critical to ensuring our systems operate at scale with high resiliency while enabling development teams to deliver features quickly and safely.

The Senior SRE will work closely with software engineering, platform, and infrastructure teams to design, build, and operate reliable distributed systems. This position emphasizes automation, observability, operational excellence, and continuous improvement, blending software engineering with systems and cloud expertise. Click Now to Apply

Ideal Candidate

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a systematic approach to troubleshooting
• Ability to succeed in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong documentation skills with attention to detail
• Self-starter mindset with the ability to research, learn, and deliver independently
• Collaborative, team-oriented approach with a focus on shared success

What You Will Be Accountable For

• Ensure the availability, performance, scalability, and reliability of production systems supporting Chamberlain’s cloud-based platforms
• Partner with software development, operations, and infrastructure teams to design and operate production-ready services
• Design and implement automation to improve incident response, reduce manual effort, and prevent recurring issues
• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve runbooks and operational documentation for service outages and degradations
• Assess production readiness of services by evaluating reliability, observability, scalability, and operational risk
• Define, implement, and monitor key operational metrics related to system health, performance, and capacity
• Architect, develop, and maintain shared reliability services and tooling used across the organization
• Participate in incident management, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews with a focus on long-term remediation
• Contribute to continuous improvement through retrospectives, technical research, code reviews, and design discussions
• Influence delivery timelines and technical expectations by identifying reliability risks and improvement opportunities
• Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge through documentation and collaborative team engagement
• Support Agile/Scrum delivery by contributing to sprint planning, backlog refinement, and story development

What Qualifications You Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field
• Minimum of 4+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or a related engineering discipline
• Proven experience supporting large-scale, distributed, production systems
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
• Cloud Platforms: Public cloud experience with AWS (preferred), Azure, or GCP
• Observability & AIOps: Monitoring, logging, alerting, and predictive analytics using tools such as Splunk, Datadog, AppDynamics, Prometheus, Grafana, Sysdig, or StackDriver
• Programming & Automation: Proficiency in Python, Java, Go, or Bash for automation and tooling
• Containers & Orchestration: Experience with Kubernetes and container platforms such as Docker, Rancher, or Mesos
• Distributed Systems: Messaging and event-driven platforms including Kafka, RabbitMQ, or ActiveMQ
• CI/CD & DevOps: Pipeline and deployment tools such as Jenkins, Harness, Travis CI, AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline, or Appveyor
• AI Enablement: Familiarity using Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate SRE workflows (e.g., scripting, incident analysis, reporting)
• Resilience Engineering: Foundational exposure to Chaos Engineering and fault-injection tools (e.g., Gremlin, Chaos Monkey, AWS FIS)

About our Client
Our client is one of the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organizations and is a foundation for secure markets. This client operates under the jurisdiction of both the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and now provides central counterparty clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms for options, financial futures, security futures, and securities lending transactions.

Why Work with Chamberlain?
Chamberlain Advisors is a veteran-owned business that provides human capital solutions through contract, contract-to-hire, direct-hire, and retained-search opportunities. Chamberlain candidates benefit from our unique hiring and interviewing process which has been designed to increase the likelihood that they will be successful in their job searches. This is achieved through our 5-step recruitment process, ensuring top-of-the-line candidate experience. Find out what makes us different; apply to Chamberlain today.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Chamberlain Advisors provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Chamberlain Advisors complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Chamberlain Advisors expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Chamberlain Advisors' employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.

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