Network Reliability Engineer Jobs in Connecticut

Job Description:

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We are currently looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Platform Engineering team in Greenwich, CT. This role requires a minimum of 3 days working from our Greenwich office.

As aSite Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will help operate and improve the reliability of a large-scale, hybrid infrastructure spanning on-premises colocation datacenters and multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP). You will work alongside experienced engineers supporting a broad technology estate - including enterprise middleware, databases, storage, and growing AI workloads - applying DevSecOps and GitOps practices to keep our platforms performant, secure, and resilient. This is an excellent opportunity for a recent graduate eager to build deep, hands-on infrastructure and reliability engineering experience in a complex, real-world environment.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor production systems and respond to incidents using enterprise observability tooling, contributing to alerting, dashboards, and SLO tracking.
• Assist in operating and maintaining on-premises colocation and cloud infrastructure across compute, storage, networking, and enterprise middleware layers.
• Support multi-cloud operations acrossAzure, AWS, and GCP, including compute, networking, storage, and identity management.
• Contribute to automation and Infrastructure-as-Code initiatives to reduce toil and improve consistency across environments.
• Participate inDevSecOps and GitOpsworkflows, including CI/CD pipelines and policy enforcement.
• Support cloud security posture management efforts, helping remediate misconfigurations and vulnerabilities across cloud environments.
• Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to blameless post-incident reviews.
• Document runbooks, procedures, and system configurations to support team knowledge sharing.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field - or equivalent hands-on experience.
• Foundational understanding of Linux and/or Windows server operating systems.
• Basic knowledge of networking concepts: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, and firewalls.
• Exposure to at least one scripting or programming language (Python, Bash, or PowerShell).
• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts across one or more ofAzure, AWS, or GCP.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a desire to learn in a fast-paced environment.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills with the ability to document technical processes clearly.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Experience in infrastructure, cloud, DevOps, or SRE-related roles.
• Hands-on exposure to observability or monitoring tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar).
• Familiarity with IaC tools such asTerraformorAnsibleand GitOps workflows.
• Experience with containerization or orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Cloud certifications (AWS Cloud Practitioner, Azure Fundamentals AZ-900, GCP Associate, or equivalent).
• Familiarity with cloud security posture or compliance concepts.

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The anticipated starting salary range for individuals expressing interest in this position is $120,000 - $150,000 per year. Placement within this range is dependent upon level of experience, location and other factors. This position is eligible for annual incentive compensation which will be a part of the total compensation. Total compensation for this position will be competitive with the market.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran or status with regard to public assistance.

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