Hybrid Site Reliability Engineer – SRE

at SS&C Technologies

• Job title: Site Reliability Engineer – SRE
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $150,000 - $180,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Kubernetes, OpenShift, OpenStack, Prometheus, Splunk, VMware
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Site Reliability Engineer responsible for leading technology teams at SS&C. Delivering scalable and resilient infrastructure platforms in the financial services and healthcare technology sector.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Technology Infrastructure teams to build and operate reusable, cloud-native platforms
• Work with business units and technical teams to improve application availability, observability, and reliability
• Enhance platform reliability through automatic problem detection and self-healing systems
• Use SLOs, SLIs, and KPIs to guide prioritization and measure impact
• Eliminate toil using intelligent automation and agentic workflows
• Conduct blameless retrospectives and share learnings across the organization
• Foster a culture of ownership and continuous learning
• Integrate DevSecOps, zero-trust principles, and policy-as-code into every pipeline
• Produce and promote Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and Cloud Well-Architected Frameworks

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in a SRE role
• 3+ years in financial services or other regulated industries preferred
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Proven expertise in architecting, designing and operating private cloud environments (e.g., VMware, OpenStack, OpenShift Virtualization) and Kubernetes clusters
• Hands-on experience with building, deploying and operating infrastructure as code platforms
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and observability platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Splunk)
• Strong understanding of modern systems reliability standards and practices
• Familiarity with financial services regulatory frameworks and their impact on infrastructure design and operations
• Familiarity with structured naming conventions and asset management for global infrastructure
• Experience with financial-grade network segmentation, micro-segmentation, and zero-trust architecture
• Certifications such as TOGAF, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, VMware VCP, or Red Hat Certified Architect are a plus
• Familiarity with ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, and other security frameworks is a plus.

Benefits

• 401k Matching Program
• Professional Development Reimbursement
• Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off
• Sick Leave
• Paid Holidays
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Employee Assistance Program
• Parental Leave
• Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!