Site Reliability Engineer

Piper Sandler; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Piper Sandler in New York, NY is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team to improve reliability across on-prem and multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP). You’ll apply DevSecOps and GitOps practices in a large-scale, enterprise setting.

Responsibilities include monitoring, automation, incident response, and on-call participation while building runbooks and documenting configurations for the team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field or equivalent hands-on experience.
• Foundational understanding of Linux and/or Windows server operating systems.
• Basic knowledge of networking concepts: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, and firewalls.
• Exposure to at least one scripting or programming language (Python, Bash, or PowerShell).
• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts across Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a desire to learn in a fast-paced environment.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills with the ability to document technical processes clearly.

Responsibilities

• Monitor production systems and respond to incidents using enterprise observability tooling, contributing to alerting, dashboards, and SLO tracking.
• Assist in operating and maintaining on-premises colocation and cloud infrastructure across compute, storage, networking, and enterprise middleware layers.
• Support multi-cloud operations across Azure, AWS, and GCP, including compute, networking, storage, and identity management.
• Contribute to automation and Infrastructure-as-Code initiatives to reduce toil and improve consistency across environments.
• Participate in DevSecOps and GitOps workflows, including CI/CD pipelines and policy enforcement.
• Support cloud security posture management efforts, helping remediate misconfigurations and vulnerabilities across cloud environments.
• Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to blameless post-incident reviews.
• Document runbooks, procedures, and system configurations to support team knowledge sharing.

Skills

Linux/Windows

Networking basics

Scripting

Cloud platforms

Observability tools

IaC

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Description

At Piper Sandler, we connect capital with opportunity to build a better future.

We believe that diverse teams with unique backgrounds, skills and experiences yield more innovative solutions. This is reflected in our commitment to engage, hire, and retain bright, committed people to work in partnership within an inclusive environment that allows each person to achieve personal success and add value to our teams and communities.

We are currently looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team in New York, NY.

About The Role

Join our Platform Engineering team as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), where you will help operate and improve the reliability of a large-scale, hybrid infrastructure spanning on-premises colocation datacenters and multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP). You will work alongside experienced engineers supporting a broad technology estate - including enterprise middleware, databases, storage, and growing AI workloads - applying DevSecOps and GitOps practices to keep our platforms performant, secure, and resilient. This is an excellent opportunity for a recent graduate eager to build deep, hands-on infrastructure and reliability engineering experience in a complex, real-world environment.

Responsibilities

• Monitor production systems and respond to incidents using enterprise observability tooling, contributing to alerting, dashboards, and SLO tracking.
• Assist in operating and maintaining on-premises colocation and cloud infrastructure across compute, storage, networking, and enterprise middleware layers.
• Support multi-cloud operations across Azure, AWS, and GCP, including compute, networking, storage, and identity management.
• Contribute to automation and Infrastructure-as-Code initiatives to reduce toil and improve consistency across environments.
• Participate in DevSecOps and GitOps workflows, including CI/CD pipelines and policy enforcement.
• Support cloud security posture management efforts, helping remediate misconfigurations and vulnerabilities across cloud environments.
• Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to blameless post-incident reviews.
• Document runbooks, procedures, and system configurations to support team knowledge sharing.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field - or equivalent hands-on experience.
• Foundational understanding of Linux and/or Windows server operating systems.
• Basic knowledge of networking concepts: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, and firewalls.
• Exposure to at least one scripting or programming language (Python, Bash, or PowerShell).
• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts across one or more of Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a desire to learn in a fast-paced environment.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills with the ability to document technical processes clearly.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Experience in infrastructure, cloud, DevOps, or SRE-related roles.
• Hands-on exposure to observability or monitoring tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar).
• Familiarity with IaC tools such as Terraform or Ansible and GitOps workflows.
• Experience with containerization or orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Cloud certifications (AWS Cloud Practitioner, Azure Fundamentals AZ-900, GCP Associate, or equivalent).
• Familiarity with cloud security posture or compliance concepts.

As a leading investment bank, we enable growth and success for our clients through deep sector expertise, candid advice and a differentiated, highly productive culture.

Our human capital, technology, marketing and other corporate support teams work with our business partners to maximize each employee. We understand the dynamic nature of the industry and work alongside our company strategies. Learn more about our firm here.

Piper Sandler values a strong culture dedicated to the emotional and physical well-being of our employees. Learn more about our commitment to our employee's health, well-being, our benefits program and how we are here for our employees and their families today, tomorrow and beyond here.

The anticipated starting salary range for individuals expressing interest in this position is $120,000 - $150,000 per year. Placement within this range is dependent upon level of experience, location and other factors. This position is eligible for annual incentive compensation which will be a part of the total compensation. Total compensation for this position will be competitive with the market.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran or status with regard to public assistance.