Senior SRE – Observability & Automation Lead

Socket.dev; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work model

Certification & training reimbursement

Job summary

Coalfire is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own and automate a critical operational capability for regulated cloud environments, with a focus on observability, incident response, and continuous monitoring. You will design telemetry, runbooks, and escalation paths while aligning with FedRAMP/NIST controls.

The role requires 5+ years in SRE or similar, strong IaC and automation experience, and the ability to mentor engineers.

Qualifications

• BS or above in a related Information Technology field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5+ years in site reliability engineering, cloud operations, platform engineering, or managed services.
• 5+ years operating production cloud environments in AWS, Azure, or GCP, including monitoring, incident response, and automation.
• Demonstrated experience owning an operational capability, monitoring platform, or reusable automation used by multiple teams or clients.
• Experience as the senior operational escalation point on client-facing managed services, including incident command on major events.

Responsibilities

• Own one operational capability for the managed estate, such as monitoring and alerting or backup and recovery, including its automation, its runbooks, and the service standard each managed environment inherits.
• Design how Coalfire observes a regulated cloud environment: telemetry and log pipelines, service-level objectives, alert quality, and the escalation paths behind them.
• Build and maintain the continuous-monitoring evidence pipeline so you can prove the authorized state each day, in machine-readable form where the framework allows it.
• Own backup and recovery engineering for your capability: recovery procedure you have tested, recovery objectives you can measure, and the automation that runs them during an outage.
• Lead incident and problem management for your domain, including incident command on major events, blameless post-incident review, and corrective action.

Skills

Terraform

Infrastructure-as-Code

Python/Go

Cloud platforms

Monitoring & alerting

Incident command

FedRAMP/NIST 800-53

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS

Tools

Ansible

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Coalfire is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own and automate a critical operational capability for regulated cloud environments, with a focus on observability, incident response, and continuous monitoring. You will design telemetry, runbooks, and escalation paths while aligning with FedRAMP/NIST controls.

The role requires 5+ years in SRE or similar, strong IaC and automation experience, and the ability to mentor engineers.