Site Reliability Engineer - IT Infra (Hybrid/Cloud)

City University of New York; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

City University of New York is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (IT Infrastructure Engineer 2) to design, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure enterprise infrastructure across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. The role emphasizes automation, IaC, and performance observability to ensure data and systems reliability.

The engineer will collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to implement standardized builds, automate provisioning, and manage incidents during

Responsibilities

• Designe, deploys, and maintains enterprise infrastructure solutions including servers, storage, networking, virtualization platforms, container platforms, and cloud services.
• Engineers scalable, secure infrastructure environments supporting mission-critical academic and administrative applications.
• Develops and maintains standard platform builds and system configurations using configuration management and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Implements automated infrastructure provisioning, patch management, and system hardening to improve platform security and reliability.
• Builds, maintains, and optimizes CI/CD pipelines to support continuous integration and continuous deployment processes.
• Develops and maintains automation scripts and configuration code for system provisioning and management.
• Implements and manages hybrid and cloud infrastructure solutions including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS platforms.
• Supports containerized application environments and orchestration platforms used for modern application deployment.
• Monitors infrastructure performance, availability, and security while improving observability, logging, and operational visibility across platforms.
• Identifies system design issues, performance bottlenecks, and infrastructure vulnerabilities and implements automation to reduce operational toil.
• Manages infrastructure incidents and leads technical response efforts during critical system outages.

Job description

City University of New York is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (IT Infrastructure Engineer 2) to design, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure enterprise infrastructure across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. The role emphasizes automation, IaC, and performance observability to ensure data and systems reliability.

The engineer will collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to implement standardized builds, automate provisioning, and manage incidents during