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Position: DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid)
JOB DESCRIPTION:
We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with deep experience in AWS infrastructure, automation, observability, and production support. As an SRE, you will ensure our cloud-native systems are resilient, scalable, and efficient, driving reliability through code, not just processes.
Key Responsibilities:
Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS
Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Harness
Own and implement monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing with tools like Dynatrace/ Datadog
Troubleshoot production incidents, conduct blameless postmortems, and improve incident response processes
Optimize systems for cost, performance, and reliability
Drive chaos engineering and resilience testing
Collaborate with development teams to embed SRE practices like SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets
Mentor junior SREs and promote DevOps/SRE culture across the organization
Basic Qualifications:
Strong experience in SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering
Expertise in AWS core services (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, VPC, RDS, IAM, CloudFront, etc.)
Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, or other IaC tools
Strong scripting/coding skills (Python, Go, Shell, etc.)
Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and orchestration
Deep knowledge of Linux systems and networking
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with Service Meshes (e.g., Istio, App Mesh)
Familiarity with AWS Well-Architected Framework
Experience building self-healing systems and automated remediation
Background in security, compliance, or multi-account/multi-region AWS architectures
Certifications (Optional/Preferred):
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
please share resume at Anusha@americanunit.com
About the Company
Company Size: 500 to 1000 employees.
American Unit, Inc. is a leading consulting service provider that helps organizations implement, upgrade and optimize their IT related technology expertise. We have our resources working all over the country, providing core competency in technology consulting services to companies ranging in size from small, mid-size to Fortune 500 companies. Our proven expertise makes us the ideal strategic partner for most companies in providing industry-focused consulting services.
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