Site Reliability Engineer - Multi-Cloud, GitOps & Observability

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

Job summary

Piper Sandler & Co. in New York, NY, is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team.

You will help operate and improve reliability across large-scale hybrid infrastructure in on-prem colocation datacenters and multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP). You will work with engineers on middleware, databases, storage, and AI workloads, applying DevSecOps and GitOps practices to keep platforms performant, secure, and resilient.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, 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.

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

Bachelor's degree

Linux/Windows

Networking basics

Scripting (Python/Bash/PowerShell)

Cloud concepts

Analytical skills

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering

Tools

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS Cloud Practitioner

Azure Fundamentals AZ-900

GCP Associate

Job description

Piper Sandler & Co. in New York, NY, is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team.

You will help operate and improve reliability across large-scale hybrid infrastructure in on-prem colocation datacenters and multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP). You will work with engineers on middleware, databases, storage, and AI workloads, applying DevSecOps and GitOps practices to keep platforms performant, secure, and resilient.