Lead Associate Principal, Software Engineering: DevOps

The OCC

Hybrid Actively hiring Posted this week
Chicago Posted 4 days ago $140,800–$232,500 / year
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TL;DR

This senior Site Reliability Engineer role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure site reliability and operational excellence across a large-scale, data-centric platform. The candidate will guide the implementation of CI/CD pipelines in Kubernetes environments, define service level objectives, and lead blameless post-mortems to drive continuous improvement. Key responsibilities include designing observability frameworks, automating repetitive tasks, and embedding non-functional requirements early in development cycles. Required technical skills encompass AWS EC2, Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, and experience with chaos engineering principles. The role demands a deep understanding of SRE practices, agile methodologies, and the ability to communicate effectively across technical and non-technical teams.

Skills

AWS Kubernetes Terraform Ansible Prometheus Grafana Jenkins OpenTelemetry PagerDuty Datadog ChaosMonkey Java Python SQL NoSQL Git Artifactory JSON Protobuf Avro CI/CD SRE TOGAF

What you'll do

  • Guides the implementation of CI/CD pipelines in Kubernetes environments.
  • Defines and enforces Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Error Budgets with product teams.
  • Designs observability frameworks covering metrics, logs, and distributed tracing across services.
  • Leads blameless post-mortem analysis to drive resolution of action items.
  • Conducts capacity planning and load forecasting for proactive scalability needs.

What we're looking for

  • Understanding of Kanban and/or Agile methodologies.
  • Familiarity with SRE principles including error budgets, toil elimination, reliability hierarchy.
  • Experience with AWS EC2, Kubernetes, Kafka, Terraform, Ansible, Hashicorp Vault.
  • Proficiency in observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry.
  • Chaos engineering principles and tooling experience (e.g., Chaos Monkey).
  • BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field; 7+ years of relevant experience.
  • Ability to define and document architecture strategies across enterprise domains.

Employer

About The OCC

The OCC (Options Clearing Corporation) is the world''s largest equity derivatives clearing organization, acting as issuer and guarantor for options and futures contracts to promote stability and market integrity. Industry: Financial Clearing & Derivatives

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