Site Reliability Engineer - Plex

Rockwell Automation; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Site Reliability Engineer, where you'll design and maintain a cutting-edge Kubernetes-based platform. Collaborate with diverse teams to enhance developer workflows and ensure high availability and performance. This role offers a unique opportunity to work with cloud-native technologies while participating in an on-call rotation to support critical operations. With a commitment to sustainability and innovation, this established industry player provides a flexible work environment and a comprehensive benefits package, making it an exciting place to grow your career.

Benefits

Health Insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision)

401k

Paid Time Off

Parental and Caregiver Leave

Flexible Work Schedule

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with Kubernetes in production.
• Proficiency in Terraform and Helm for automation.
• Experience with networking and container runtimes.

Responsibilities

• Manage and improve Kubernetes platform for high availability.
• Implement infrastructure as code to automate operations.
• Troubleshoot production incidents and drive reliability improvements.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

OpenTelemetry

Elastic Stack

CI/CD

Linux Administration

Networking

GitOps

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Azure

vSphere

Rancher

Cluster API (CAPI)

Job description

Troy, Michigan, United States
Mayfield Heights, Ohio, United States
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world's manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 28,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility -our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how thework we do changes the world for the better.

We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that's you we would love to have you join us!

Job Description

Position Overview:

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our Container Platform Team. You will design, maintain, and scale our Kubernetes-based platform to ensure high availability, security, and performance. You will work closely with development, security, and infrastructure teams to automate operations, improve multi-cluster management, and enhance developer workflows. You will participate in an on-call rotation to support critical platform operations.

Your Responsibilities:

• Manage, maintain, and improve our Kubernetes platform, ensuring high availability and scalability.
• Implement infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm, Flux, Kustomize) to automate platform operations.
• Enhance observability and logging using OpenTelemetry and Elastic Stack.
• Improve networking and security policies within Kubernetes (e.g., Istio, Cilium, and Network Policies).
• Support developers by optimizing CI/CD pipelines and containerized application deployment workflows.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and drive reliability improvements.
• Evaluate and implement cloud-native technologies to enhance platform efficiency.
• Collaborate with security teams to ensure best practices for container security and compliance.
• Work with multi-cluster management solutions such as Rancher, Cluster API (CAPI), or other Kubernetes fleet management tools.
• Manage Kubernetes infrastructure on Azure and vSphere.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support platform operations and respond to incidents.

The Essentials - You Will Have:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

The Preferred - You Might Also Have:

• Typically requires 5+ years of experience working with Kubernetes in a production environment.
• Proficiency in Terraform, Helm, and Kubernetes manifests for infrastructure automation.
• Strong experience with networking (CNI, Istio, Ingress controllers, and multi-cluster networking).
• Experience with Linux administration and container runtimes (Docker, containerd).
• Familiarity with observability tools (OpenTelemetry, Elastic Stack).
• Experience managing multi-cluster Kubernetes environments using Rancher or Cluster API (CAPI).
• Experience with RBAC, security policies, and secrets management in Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with Azure and vSphere as Kubernetes infrastructure providers.
• Experience with GitOps practices (FluxCD, ArgoCD).
• Prior experience in SRE or Platform Engineering roles.
• Knowledge of database management in Kubernetes (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, or distributed storage solutions like Ceph or Longhorn).

What We Offer:

• Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401k
• Paid Time off
• Parental and Caregiver Leave
• Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can be flexible with your personal life.
• To learn more about our benefits package, please visit at www.raquickfind.com.

At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

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