Pipersandler is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. In this role, you will help operate and improve the reliability of our large-scale, hybrid infrastructure, which spans on-premises colocation datacenters and multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP). You will apply DevSecOps and GitOps practices to keep these critical platforms performant, secure, and resilient.
What You'll Do
- 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.
What We're Looking For
- 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.
Nice to Have
- 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.
Technical Stack
- Operating Systems: Linux, Windows
- Scripting: Python, Bash, PowerShell
- Cloud Platforms: Azure, AWS, GCP
- Observability: Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible
- Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
Team & Environment
You will join our Platform Engineering team, where you'll work alongside experienced engineers supporting a broad technology estate.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation range: $120,000 - $150,000 per year.
- We value a strong culture dedicated to the emotional and physical well-being of our employees.
Work Mode
This is an onsite position located in Greenwich, CT.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran or status with regard to public assistance.
