SRE & Infrastructure Engineer: Reliability & Automation

Strata Decision Technology; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Strata Decision Technology is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement, and support infrastructure for our SaaS applications in Chicago. You will help ensure high availability, reliability, and scalability through monitoring, troubleshooting, automation, and continuous improvement.

You will partner with Infrastructure, Cloud, DevOps, and Engineering teams to operate our environment today while identifying opportunities to improve how we work tomorrow.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in infrastructure, systems, cloud, or site reliability engineering.
• Experience across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid infrastructure.
• Hands-on IaC with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Experience with configuration management and automation tools (Ansible, Salt, Puppet, or Chef).
• Experience with observability, monitoring, alerting, incident response, performance optimization, and capacity planning.
• Strong systems-level troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with root-cause analysis.
• Automation mindset to identify repetitive work and improve efficiency.
• Willingness to learn unfamiliar technologies and apply them.
• Strong engineering judgment and cross-team collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Infrastructure, DevOps, Cloud, and Engineering to improve platform reliability, performance, and deployments.
• Apply reliability practices across observability, monitoring, alerting, incident response, capacity planning, and DR.
• Troubleshoot complex infra and production issues; identify root causes and implement solutions.
• Automate deployments, upgrades, maintenance, using tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Identify tech debt and single points of failure; improve reliability, scalability, resilience.
• Monitor system and application performance to proactively identify issues.
• Contribute to modernization across cloud, DR, virtualization, containerization, platform architecture.
• Evaluate new technologies and provide recommendations to improve performance or cost.
• Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, runbooks, and best practices.
• Contribute to long-term technical roadmap and continuous improvement priorities.

Skills

Infra/SRE experience

Troubleshooting

Automation mindset

Collaboration & communication

Continuous learning

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

Salt

Puppet

Chef

Job description

Strata Decision Technology is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement, and support infrastructure for our SaaS applications in Chicago. You will help ensure high availability, reliability, and scalability through monitoring, troubleshooting, automation, and continuous improvement.

You will partner with Infrastructure, Cloud, DevOps, and Engineering teams to operate our environment today while identifying opportunities to improve how we work tomorrow.