Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in Ohio
Site Reliability Engineer jobs in Ohio are consistently active across the state's technology, financial services, healthcare IT, and logistics sectors, with openings ranging from associate-level through principal and staff engineer. Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati anchor the market, and established employers such as JPMorgan Chase, Nationwide, and Procter & Gamble maintain substantial engineering teams in Ohio that hire site reliability engineers on a recurring basis. The most in-demand specialties are Kubernetes and container orchestration, observability and incident response tooling, and cloud infrastructure automation on AWS and GCP. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Job ID:
J54903
Job Title:
Lead SRE Engineer
Location:
Cleveland, OH
Duration:
12 Months + Extension
Domain Exposure:
Retail
Client:
To Be Discussed Later
Employment Type:
W-2, 1099, C2C
Work Authorization:
US Citizen, Green Card, H-1B, OPT-EAD, CPT, Other
Job Title: Lead SRE Engineer
Location: Cleveland, OH
Duration: 12 Months + Extension
Bill Rate: $78/hour (C2C)
Job Type: W-2, 1099, C2C
Client: To Be Discussed Later
Work Authorization: US Citizen, Green Card, OPT-EAD, CPT, H-1B, H4-EAD, Other
Job Summary:
The Lead Site Reliability Engineer role is responsible for optimizing the organization's IT products, services, systems, and digital products. The incumbent works to develop customized solutions to automate the administration, monitoring, and operation of business-critical applications and services, supervises tests for resiliency, redundancy, and failover to ensure uptime, and troubleshoots potential issues to ensure that IT products, services, systems, and digital products are running efficiently and effectively. In addition, the role is responsible for leading the design and implementation of scalable and reliable application and service solutions that can run across multiple environments and technologies. The incumbent fosters a culture of collaboration between cross-functional departments, including development teams, infrastructure teams, and support organizations, to enhance and improve system operability and provide training and knowledge transfer to team members. The role is also responsible for implementing leading practices and emerging technologies that will drive additional efficiencies across the IT organization. The role is also responsible for overseeing project planning, cost analysis, and vendor comparisons when assessing potential solutions and implementing technology and operational improvements.
Responsibilities:
WHAT THE ROLE WILL DO:
- Optimize IT products, services, systems, and digital products by proactively analyzing application, service, and operational health metrics to identify potential inefficiencies and thereby ensuring improvements in performance, availability, and reliability.
- Develop customized solutions to automate the deployment, administration, monitoring, and operation of applications and services and train other team members on the use of automation tools.
- Develop a formal process for continuously reviewing and monitoring system SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and OKRs and build optimization plans to address areas of improvement.
- Foster a culture of collaboration between cross-functional teams to ensure improvement in IT products, services, systems, and digital products.
- Optimize the use of applications, services, integrations, observability tools, infrastructure components, and load-balancing technologies by tracking performance, identifying potential issues, and ensuring optimal operation.
- Lead efforts to continuously improve application and service reliability, performance, resiliency, observability, and operational readiness and take steps to mitigate potential issues.
- Evaluate application and service requirements, lead cross-functional implementation teams, and conduct post-implementation reviews to share lessons learned from the project.
- Create detailed implementation plans for the integration of new technologies, products, and services into the existing environment that will improve application and service resilience, performance, and reduce costs.
- Provide leadership and knowledge-sharing to mentor engineers on reliability engineering, observability, automation, incident management, and operational excellence practices and assess their effectiveness.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems, or in lieu of a degree, at least 9 years of experience in the field of site reliability engineering
- 6+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, DevOps Engineering, Platform Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Experience supporting and operating production applications, services, or enterprise technology platforms.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, observability, and incident response practices.
- Experience utilizing automation, scripting, or tooling to improve reliability, operational efficiency, and supportability.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot, resolve, and prevent production issues.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Must be at least (18) eighteen years of age.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience supporting customer-facing or business-critical digital products and services at a global level.
- Experience establishing and managing Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
- Experience leading major incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
- Experience with cloud-native architecture (Microsoft Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Experience implementing observability, alerting, and operational excellence practices.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Experience driving reliability, resiliency, and performance improvements in distributed systems.
- Experience with leadership and executive-level communication.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Relevant Site Reliability Engineering, Azure, Cloud, DevOps, or Platform Engineering certifications
Technical Skills:
- Monitoring and Logging
- Automation and Scripting
- Reliability Engineering
- Incident Management
- Application and Service Operations
- Performance and Capacity Management
- Microsoft Azure
- Kubernetes
- Application Performance Monitoring
- Observability and Telemetry
- Infrastructure as Code
- Distributed Systems
- API and Integration Technologies
- DevOps Practices
We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.
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- Automotive
- Consulting & Professional Services
What Ohio Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in site reliability engineer jobs across Ohio.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field
- Proficiency with Linux systems administration and scripting in Python, Go, or Bash
- Experience designing and operating Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads
- Hands-on background with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure in production environments
- Familiarity with observability stacks including Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or equivalent tools
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible in large-scale environments
Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in Ohio: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a site reliability engineer in Ohio?
Site reliability engineering in Ohio has no state-issued license or registration requirement, so the path centers on education and demonstrated technical skill. Most Ohio employers expect a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field, though some accept equivalent experience. Building hands-on proficiency with Linux, cloud platforms, and container orchestration, then earning vendor certifications such as the Certified Kubernetes Administrator or AWS Solutions Architect, strengthens candidacy considerably with Ohio's major technology and financial services employers.
Which companies hire site reliability engineers in Ohio?
Employers hiring site reliability engineers in Ohio right now include JPMorganChase, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Leidos, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Ohio's concentration of large financial institutions, insurance companies, and healthcare systems means recurring demand from organizations with substantial production infrastructure and reliability engineering teams.
Which Ohio cities have the most site reliability engineer jobs?
Columbus, Cincinnati, and Wright-Patterson AFB have the most site reliability engineer openings in Ohio. Columbus drives the largest share of postings thanks to its dense concentration of financial services firms, insurance headquarters, and fast-growing technology companies, while Cleveland and Cincinnati contribute steadily through regional bank technology centers, healthcare systems, and established manufacturing and logistics operators with significant infrastructure needs.
Are there remote site reliability engineer jobs in Ohio?
Yes, and more than most fields. About 100% of site reliability engineer openings tied to Ohio are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting how well the role translates to distributed work. On-call incident response, infrastructure automation, and observability work are the functions most commonly performed fully remotely, while roles that involve physical data center operations or close coordination with hardware teams tend to require at least a hybrid schedule.
How can I get hired as a site reliability engineer in Ohio with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is a lateral move from a software engineering or systems administration role, which Ohio employers in financial services and healthcare IT regularly consider for internal candidates or new graduates with relevant project work. Building a public portfolio demonstrating infrastructure-as-code, monitoring configuration, or incident runbooks strengthens applications significantly. Pursuing the Certified Kubernetes Administrator credential or an associate-level cloud certification from AWS or Google before applying signals readiness and helps candidates stand out for associate or junior SRE openings at Ohio's larger technology and insurance employers.
Where can I find and apply to site reliability engineer jobs in Ohio?
You can find and apply to site reliability engineer jobs in Ohio on Migrate Mate, which lists current Ohio openings updated regularly. Search the listings, find roles that match your experience and location preference, and apply directly to the employers that fit.
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