Hybrid Cloud SRE - Observability, IaC & DevSecOps

Piper Sandler & Co. in; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Piper Sandler is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team in New York, NY. You will help operate and improve the reliability of a large-scale, hybrid infrastructure spanning on-premises datacenters and multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP).

This role is ideal for a recent graduate eager to build hands-on reliability engineering experience in a complex setting. You will work with enterprise middleware, databases, storage, and growing AI workloads, applying

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent hands-on experience in a related field.
• Foundational understanding of Linux and Windows server operating systems.
• Basic 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.

Responsibilities

• Monitor production systems and respond to incidents using observability tooling, contributing to alerting and SLO tracking.
• Assist in operating and maintaining on-premises colocation and cloud infrastructure across compute, storage, networking, and middleware.
• Support multi-cloud operations across Azure, AWS, and GCP, including compute, networking, and identity management.
• Contribute to automation and Infrastructure-as-Code initiatives to reduce toil and improve consistency.
• Participate in DevSecOps and GitOps workflows, including CI/CD pipelines and policy enforcement.
• Support cloud security posture management efforts and remediate misconfigurations and vulnerabilities.
• Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to blameless post-incident reviews.

Skills

Linux/Windows basics

Networking basics

Scripting (Python/Bash/PowerShell)

Cloud concepts (Azure/AWS/GCP)

Analytical problem-solving

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Piper Sandler is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team in New York, NY. You will help operate and improve the reliability of a large-scale, hybrid infrastructure spanning on-premises datacenters and multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP).

This role is ideal for a recent graduate eager to build hands-on reliability engineering experience in a complex setting. You will work with enterprise middleware, databases, storage, and growing AI workloads, applying