Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Vizient • Chicago, IL

3d

About The Position

In this role, you will design, automate, and maintain infrastructure to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of services across production environments. You will partner with engineering teams to improve system resilience, enhance observability, strengthen Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices, and advance site reliability engineering capabilities that support healthcare clients and business operations.

Requirements

• Relevant degree in Computer Science or related field preferred.
• 2 or more years of relevant experience required.
• Familiarity with SLO/SLI, and Error budget framework required.
• Experience with observability tools including Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, or ELK required.
• Experience with CI/CD engineering practices and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) frameworks required.
• Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python, Go, or Bash required.
• Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet required.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms including Azure, AWS, or GCP required.
• Understanding of distributed systems, networking, and reliability principles and maintaining production environments.
• You must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and orchestration workflows preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering and operation teams to design systems that minimize downtime and improve service reliability.
• Participate in incident response and conduct root-cause analysis to implement long-term remediation.
• Manage performance tuning, capacity planning, and scaling strategies for production services.
• Promote adoption of Service Level Objective (SLO), Service Level Indicator (SLI), and Error Budget frameworks to improve reliability practices.
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines to enable secure, automated, and efficient deployments.
• Implement and optimize monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions.
• Build and maintain scalable infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Pulumi, ARM, Terraform, or CloudFormation.
• Develop automation for deployments, configuration management, and system operations.
• Participate in on-call rotations and troubleshoot complex production incidents.

Benefits

• Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here: http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers
• This position is also incentive eligible.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level