Senior Site Reliability Engineer: Cloud, Resilience & Automation

CME Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 100,700 - 167,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Education reimbursement

Mental health benefit

Annual target bonus opportunity

Active pension plan

Job summary

CME Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer III to enhance stability for CME Clearing & Risk. In this role, you will ensure secure and reliable technology solutions, bridging development and operations while maintaining risk management services.

Your expertise in cloud platforms like GCP, AWS, or Azure, alongside SRE principles, will be crucial in architecting operational fault tolerance and optimizing software development processes.

The position offers a competitive salary range of $100,700–$167,800, comprehensive health coverage, and additional benefits including an equity program and education reimbursement.

Qualifications

• Deep hands‑on experience with GCP (preferred), AWS or Azure.
• Strong Linux/Unix foundations and scripting skills.
• Mid-level development experience in Java or Python.
• Experience with telemetry tools such as OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Prometheus & Grafana.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using Bamboo, JIRA and Git.

Responsibilities

• Partner with development and platform teams for application migrations.
• Design and implement frameworks for operational fault tolerance.
• Promote automation to streamline environment builds.
• Maintain high-availability standards across environments.
• Collaborate with application teams during design phases.

Skills

Cloud & Orchestration Expertise

Technical Versatility

SRE DNA

Observability Mindset

Operational Rigor

Visionary Problem‑Solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

AWS

Azure

OpenTelemetry

Splunk

Prometheus

Grafana

Oracle

Postgres

BigQuery

Job description

CME Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer III to enhance stability for CME Clearing & Risk. In this role, you will ensure secure and reliable technology solutions, bridging development and operations while maintaining risk management services.

Your expertise in cloud platforms like GCP, AWS, or Azure, alongside SRE principles, will be crucial in architecting operational fault tolerance and optimizing software development processes.

The position offers a competitive salary range of $100,700–$167,800, comprehensive health coverage, and additional benefits including an equity program and education reimbursement.