Site Reliability Engineer

Luma Financial Technologies, LLC; Cincinnati (OH); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Luma Financial Technologies in Cincinnati is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to own infrastructure on AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines. You will design resilience, automate infrastructure with Terraform, monitor systems, and lead incident response during on-call rotations.

The role emphasizes collaboration, continuous improvement, and maintaining reliability across multi-region setups. Hybrid work arrangement is encouraged.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Site Reliability or software development experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field preferred.
• Proficient in Java, Python, Bash or Go with strong problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product engineering to design and build infrastructure for services.
• Keep Kubernetes on AWS EKS running securely and at scale.
• Design resilience strategies for multi-region architecture, backups, and failover.
• Automate infrastructure with Terraform and IaC to reduce manual effort.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices to speed shipping.
• Monitor performance and reliability with modern observability tools.
• Support on-call rotations and lead long-term incident response.

Skills

Java

Python

Bash

Go

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related concentration

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Founded in 2018, Luma Financial Technologies (“Luma”) has pioneered a cutting-edge fintech software platform that has been adopted by broker/dealer firms, RIA offices, and private banks around the world. By using Luma, institutional and retail investors have a fully customizable, independent, buy-side technology platform that helps financial teams more efficiently learn about, research, purchase, and manage alternative investments as well as annuities. Luma gives these users the ability to oversee the full, end-to-end process lifecycle by offering a suite of solutions. These include education resources and training materials; creation and pricing of custom structured products; electronic order entry; and post-trade management. By prioritizing transparency and ease of use, Luma is a multi-issuer, multi-wholesaler, and multi-product option that advisors can utilize to best meet their clients’ specific portfolio needs. Headquartered in Cincinnati, OH, Luma also has offices in New York, NY, Miami, FL, Zurich, Switzerland and Lisbon, Portugal. For more information, please visit Luma’s website .

About the role

At Luma, our Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) team keeps our platform reliable, secure, and lightning fast. They own everything from AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters to CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and alerting. If you’re passionate about tackling big challenges, automating at scale, and making systems more resilient, we’d love to have you on the team.

What you'll do

• Collaborate with product engineering teams to design and build the infrastructure their services run on.
• Keep our Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS running smoothly, secure, and ready to scale.
• Design and deliver resilience strategies that cover multi-region architecture, backups, disaster recovery, and failover.
• Automate infrastructure with Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code, reducing manual effort and human error.
• Help teams ship faster by improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices.
• Monitor performance and reliability using modern observability tools.
• Support on-call rotations and lead incident response with a focus on long-term fixes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of applicable experience in Site Reliability or Software Development Engineering required
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related concentration highly preferred
• You code to solve problems and are comfortable in the following languages: Java, Java, Python, Bash and Go.
• You have strong experience with AWS (RDS, CloudFront, IAM, VPCs), Terraform, and Kubernetes.
• You are resilience focused, with experience designing and running systems that remain dependable during failures and recover seamlessly.
• You have hands-on experience improving and operating CI/CD pipelines (e.g., CircleCI, GitHub Actions, or similar) to help teams ship faster with confidence.
• You stay calm under pressure, bringing incident response expertise and strong root-cause analysis skills.
• Most importantly, you are a team player who brings clear communication, strong collaboration, and a mindset of continuous improvement.

Luma Financial Technologies is unable to sponsor work visas or provide employment-based immigration sponsorship for this position, now or in the future. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.

Any misrepresentation, including regarding work authorization or sponsorship needs during the application or interview process will result in disqualification from consideration for this role or termination of employment.

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The pay range for this role is:

120,000 - 145,000 USD per year (Cincinnati)

150,000 - 180,000 USD per year (New York)