Site Reliability Engineer

CliftonLarsonAllen•Milwaukee, WI

About The Position

CLA is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join its technology team. The role designs, implements, and supports reliable, scalable, and secure production systems. It applies software engineering principles, operational expertise, and automation to improve system availability, performance, and resilience. The engineer works closely with development, infrastructure, cloud, and security teams to reduce operational risk, accelerate software delivery, and maintain the stability of business-critical services. The position requires less than 10% travel.

Requirements

5 or more years of relevant experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, software engineering, or a related field.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; a combination of relevant experience, education, and training may be accepted in lieu of a degree.
Proficiency with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Hands-on experience with containerization, orchestration, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code technologies.
Experience with monitoring, observability, incident management, scripting, and automation tools.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain reliability engineering practices that improve the stability, scalability, performance, and security of production environments.
Develop software-based automation to reduce manual operations, improve efficiency, and eliminate recurring operational toil.
Build and maintain monitoring, observability, alerting, and incident-response capabilities across business-critical systems.
Define and maintain service level objectives (SLOs), service level indicators (SLIs), and reliability metrics.
Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex production incidents; implement corrective actions and automated recovery processes to reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR).
Design and maintain highly available infrastructure and platform services, assessing capacity and performance trends to support continued growth.
Partner with development, cloud, infrastructure, and security teams to improve application reliability, deployment stability, system resilience, and operational readiness.
Promote reliability engineering principles throughout the software development lifecycle and evaluate technologies and best practices that improve service reliability.