Site Reliability Engineer

CliftonLarsonAllen LLP; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k

Job summary

CliftonLarsonAllen LLP is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our growing technology team. This position will design, implement, and support reliable, scalable, and secure production systems.

You will partner with development, cloud, infrastructure, and security teams to improve availability, deploys, and operational readiness, while driving automation and monitoring across critical services.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, software engineering, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain reliability engineering practices that improve the stability, scalability, performance, and security of production environments.
• Develop software-based automation solutions that reduce manual operations, improve efficiency, and eliminate recurring operational toil.
• Build and maintain monitoring, observability, alerting, and incident-response capabilities across business-critical systems.
• Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex production incidents and implement corrective actions and automated recovery processes to reduce MTTR.
• Design and maintain highly available infrastructure and platform services while assessing capacity and performance trends to support continued growth.
• Partner with development, cloud, infrastructure, and security teams to improve application reliability, deployment stability, system resilience, and operational readiness.
• Promote reliability engineering principles throughout the software development lifecycle and evaluate technologies and best practices that improve service reliability.

Skills

Site reliability

SRE

Cloud engineering

DevOps

Automation

Scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Podman

Azure Pipelines

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

Terraform

Bicep

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Azure

AWS

GCP

Python

PowerShell

Job description

CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you. CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other.

About the role

CLA is seeking to hire a Site Reliability Engineer to join our growing technology team. This position will design, implement, and support reliable, scalable, and secure production systems. The Site Reliability Engineer will combine software engineering principles, operational expertise, and automation practices to improve system availability, performance, and resilience. This role will partner closely with development, infrastructure, cloud, and security teams to reduce operational risk, accelerate software delivery, and ensure the stability of business-critical services.

Responsibilities

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will: Design, implement, and maintain reliability engineering practices that improve the stability, scalability, performance, and security of production environments. Develop software-based automation solutions that reduce manual operations, improve efficiency, and eliminate recurring operational toil. Build and maintain monitoring, observability, alerting, and incident-response capabilities across business-critical systems. Define and maintain service level objectives (SLOs), service level indicators (SLIs), and reliability metrics. Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex production incidents and implement corrective actions and automated recovery processes to reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR). Design and maintain highly available infrastructure and platform services while assessing capacity and performance trends to support continued growth. Partner with development, cloud, infrastructure, and security teams to improve application reliability, deployment stability, system resilience, and operational readiness. Promote reliability engineering principles throughout the software development lifecycle and evaluate technologies and best practices that improve service reliability.

What you will need

5 or more years of relevant experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, software engineering, or a related field. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. A combination of relevant experience, education, and training may be accepted in lieu of a degree.

Technical Competencies

Proficiency with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Hands-on experience with containerization, orchestration, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Podman, Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, or Pulumi. Experience with monitoring, observability, incident management, scripting, and automation tools such as Azure Monitor, Datadog, Splunk, Python, or PowerShell.

Additional Information

This position requires less than 10% travel. #LI-JH1 Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.

Wellness at CLA

To support our CLA family members, we focus on their physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being and offer comprehensive benefit options that include health, dental, vision, 401k and much more.

Wellness is shaped by our promise to know you and help you. We create opportunities for our people to live well and be happy by focusing on their physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being.

About CLA

CLA exists to create opportunities for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. With nearly 9,000 people, more than 120 locations, and a global vision, we promise to know you and help you. For more information visit our website. Investment advisory services are offered through ClintonLarsonAllen Wealth Advisors, LLC, an SEC-registered investment advisor.

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Equal Opportunity Employer

CLA is an equal opportunity employer All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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