We are global private markets specialists delivering tailored investment solutions, advisory services, and impactful, data driven insights to the world’s investors. Leveraging the power of our platform and our peerless intelligence across sectors, strategies, and geographies, we help identify the advantages and the answers our clients need to succeed.
The Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for designing, deploying and managing enterprise solutions utilizing various network, endpoint and cloud technologies. The role will provide subject matter expertise on complex cloud native technologies, topics and issues.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure, with a focus on high availability and fault tolerance.
- Collaborate with software engineers to embed reliability best practices into the software development lifecycle.
- Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident response, and conduct thorough post-mortems to prevent recurrence.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, and CloudFormation
- Optimize cloud resource utilization and cost management across multi-cloud or hybrid environments.
- Contribute to the design and improvement of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
- Ensure cloud environments adhere to financial industry security and compliance standards.
- Document systems, runbooks, and processes to support team knowledge sharing.
Required Qualifications
- 3–5 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure role.
- Hands-on experience with one or more major cloud providers: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language (Python, Go, Bash, etc.).
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep).
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, VPNs).
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent.
- Solid understanding of Linux/Unix systems administration.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in the financial services industry or other highly regulated environments.
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001.
- Cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, GCP Professional Cloud Architect, Azure Administrator, etc.).
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At StepStone, we believe that our people are our most important asset and crucial to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer that strives to create an environment that empowers our employees and allows them to be heard, regardless of title or tenure. Our organizational community features multiple Employment Resource Groups as well as mentorship programs to enhance the employee experience for all.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, StepStone does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.
Candidates must be at least 18 years old to apply.
Developing People at StepStone
Skills Required
- 3-5 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure role
- Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies
- Experience with observability tools
- Solid understanding of Linux/Unix systems administration
What We Do
StepStone Group (Nasdaq: STEP) is a global private markets investment firm focused on providing customized investment solutions and advisory and data services to our clients. StepStone’s clients include some of the world’s largest public and private defined benefit and defined contribution pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies, as well as prominent endowments, foundations, family offices and private wealth clients, which include high-net-worth and mass affluent individuals.StepStone partners with its clients to develop and build private markets portfolios designed to meet their specific objectives across the private equity, infrastructure, private debt and real estate asset classes.
