Platform Reliability Engineer - Multi-Cloud & Observability

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

Job summary

Piper Sandler in New York, NY is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team to improve reliability across on-prem and multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP). You’ll apply DevSecOps and GitOps practices in a large-scale, enterprise setting.

Responsibilities include monitoring, automation, incident response, and on-call participation while building runbooks and documenting configurations for the team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or 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 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 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.

Skills

Linux/Windows

Networking basics

Scripting

Cloud platforms

Observability tools

IaC

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Piper Sandler in New York, NY is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team to improve reliability across on-prem and multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP). You’ll apply DevSecOps and GitOps practices in a large-scale, enterprise setting.

Responsibilities include monitoring, automation, incident response, and on-call participation while building runbooks and documenting configurations for the team.