Piper Sandler is a company that connects capital with opportunity to build a better future. They are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join their Platform Engineering team, where the role focuses on improving the reliability of large-scale hybrid infrastructure and supporting multi-cloud operations.
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 across Azure, 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 in DevSecOps and GitOps workflows, 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
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 of Azure, 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
- 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 as Terraform or Ansible and 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
Benefits
- This position is eligible for annual incentive compensation which will be a part of the total compensation.
- Piper Sandler values a strong culture dedicated to the emotional and physical well-being of our employees.
- Learn more about our commitment to our employee’s health, well-being, our benefits program and how we are here for our employees and their families today, tomorrow and beyond here.
Company Overview
Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR) is a leading investment bank driven to help clients Realize the Power of Partnership®. It was founded in 1895, and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.pipersandler.com/.Company H1B Sponsorship
Piper Sandler has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2026, 5 in 2025, 7 in 2024, 6 in 2023, 4 in 2022, 3 in 2021, 2 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.