SRE: Release & Cloud Operations Engineer

SCIGON; Naperville (IL); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

SCIGON is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Release & Operations to bridge software development and technology operations in a hybrid role. You will manage the release lifecycle, drive change governance, and foster cross-team communication.

The role requires hands-on automation development to reduce operational overhead, production support, and a focus on cloud-based infrastructure reliability, security, and scalability.

Qualifications

• Experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, cloud operations, or related roles.
• Demonstrated experience managing software releases and coordinating deployments within change management processes.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure platforms and services.
• Experience building, deploying, and maintaining scalable cloud-based systems.
• Solid understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) principles and tools.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar.
• Experience supporting production systems and incident management.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end software release lifecycle including planning, scheduling, deployment, validation, and post-release activities.
• Participate in change management processes to ensure governance and compliance prior to production deployment.
• Serve as a primary contact for stakeholders regarding deployment schedules, status, risks, and rollback strategies.
• Automate manual activities into repeatable CI/CD workflows and controls.
• Provide hands-on production support, incident response, on-call participation, and root cause analyses.
• Design and maintain IaC solutions for consistent deployments.
• Configure and optimize monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure application health.
• Collaborate across engineering, platform, security, and operations teams to improve reliability and performance.

Skills

Strong communication

Systems-thinking

Detail-oriented

Analytical problem solving

Tools

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Shell scripting

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Grafana

ECS

EKS

Job description

SCIGON is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Release & Operations to bridge software development and technology operations in a hybrid role. You will manage the release lifecycle, drive change governance, and foster cross-team communication.

The role requires hands-on automation development to reduce operational overhead, production support, and a focus on cloud-based infrastructure reliability, security, and scalability.