Senior SRE: AI-Driven Cloud Automation & Kubernetes

Attaindata; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Attain is seeking a Senior/Staff Site Reliability Engineer for Consumer Apps in Chicago. You’ll design, build, and scale reliable, secure systems with a focus on automation and AI-driven tooling.

You’ll collaborate with backend, frontend, data science, and product teams to improve performance and developer experience while shaping the architecture for future growth. You’ll work on Kubernetes, Istio, cloud platforms, and CI/CD pipelines, building observable, resilient services that support

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience building and maintaining large-scale cloud-native infrastructure (AWS and/or GCP).
• Demonstrated fluency directing AI coding agents to build, operate, and debug real infrastructure; and robust and experienced judgment on verification of their work.
• A track record of replacing manual operations with durable automation.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Istio or a similar service mesh.
• Experience with SQL database technologies such as MySQL, Google BigQuery, and Google Spanner.
• Experience with stream technologies such as Kafka and Amazon Kinesis.
• Experience with pub/sub technologies such as AWS SNS and Google Pub/Sub.
• Experience with serverless computing technologies such as AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions/Google Cloud Run.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
• Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Strong computer science and software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience with SOC2 and PCI Compliance processes and requirements.

Responsibilities

• Use AI agents as a force multiplier for yourself and others.
• Create, improve, and maintain internal agentic tools and harnesses.
• Add automation to both existing and new systems until manual processes disappear.
• Develop Helm charts for deploying services and jobs in our Kubernetes cluster.
• Define metrics, network policies, and routing rules for our Istio service mesh.
• Monitor and maintain our GCP BigQuery, Spanner, and CloudSQL databases.
• Pipe metrics to our Google-managed Prometheus instance and build out Grafana dashboards and alerts to increase visibility on our systems.
• Experiment with GCP offerings, 3rd party vendors, AI tooling, and open-source projects to automate and secure day-to-day operations.
• Pair with engineering leads to instrument and monitor critical functionality.
• Participate in architecture design and capacity planning discussions to ensure scalable, maintainable, reliable, and secure systems.
• Build, maintain, and improve our CI/CD pipeline.

Skills

Automation

AI agents

Observability

CI/CD

Security/compliance

Architecture

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Istio

MySQL

Google BigQuery

Google Spanner

Kafka

Amazon Kinesis

AWS Lambda

Google Cloud Functions

Google Cloud Run

Terraform

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Attain is seeking a Senior/Staff Site Reliability Engineer for Consumer Apps in Chicago. You’ll design, build, and scale reliable, secure systems with a focus on automation and AI-driven tooling.

You’ll collaborate with backend, frontend, data science, and product teams to improve performance and developer experience while shaping the architecture for future growth. You’ll work on Kubernetes, Istio, cloud platforms, and CI/CD pipelines, building observable, resilient services that support