Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in Pennsylvania
Site Reliability Engineer jobs in Pennsylvania are consistently active, with strong demand concentrated in financial services, healthcare technology, and enterprise software sectors and openings at every level from junior SRE to principal engineer. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh lead hiring volume, with Malvern and King of Prussia also drawing significant demand from the region's insurance and fintech corridor. Comcast, SAP, and UPMC are among the most established Pennsylvania employers with ongoing SRE teams, and the most in-demand specialties include Kubernetes orchestration, incident response, and cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCP. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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About the Role
We're looking for a Consulting/Principal Site Reliability Engineer to guide our observability and reliability initiative for Government Systems, running on Azure Government. This is an advanced individual-contributor role for someone with a proven track record leading an organization through a transition to SLO-based reliability engineering — you've done this before, and you know what it takes to get development teams bought in. This is a hands-on SRE role, not a software development role: you'll work alongside other SREs on the initiative, guiding development teams on telemetry and instrumentation strategy rather than writing that code yourself. You'll operate as the go-to expert on Datadog and observability practice, helping define meaningful SLOs and error budgets and making data-driven reliability decisions. You'll also help train and mentor junior SREs, working within priorities set by the SRE Manager.
Eligibility: This role requires U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
What You'll Do
- Guide the observability and reliability initiative, working alongside other SREs to set the technical direction for how the organization measures and improves reliability
- Lead the transition to SLO-based reliability engineering, building on prior experience doing this elsewhere
- Guide development teams on telemetry and instrumentation strategy for their applications, without doing the application development work yourself
- Serve as the primary technical authority on Datadog, from dashboarding to alerting to SLO tracking
- Recommend service level objectives in partnership with Product and Development teams
- Act as a senior escalation point during incidents
- Help improve and evolve the broader SRE framework
- Build disaster recovery plans, including advanced fault injection scenarios
- Advise on SRE training curriculum and content, and help set and follow priorities established by the SRE Manager
Tech Stack You'll Work With
- Cloud: Microsoft Azure Government
- Server Environment: Linux and Windows
- CI/CD: Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
- Observability: Datadog (primary)
- AI-assisted development: GitHub Copilot
What We're Looking For
Observability (core focus)
- Significant, hands-on experience with Datadog — dashboards, alerting, SLO/error-budget tracking, and telemetry pipelines
- Proven experience leading an organization's transition to SLO-based reliability engineering, not just supporting one
- Track record guiding development teams on instrumentation and telemetry strategy (advisory, not hands-on application coding)
- Deep technical understanding of observability techniques across the full stack; able to bring clarity to complex incidents or performance issues
- Able to build templated observability dashboards and configuration as code so others can implement quickly
- Able to set and influence appropriate SLOs and Error Budgets org-wide
- Comfortable operating across both Linux and Windows server environments
Incident Management
- Experience preparing and assessing SREs for on-call readiness, including mentoring and identifying training needs
- Skilled at running post-mortems where participants feel safe to contribute; fosters a culture of learning from failure
- Comfortable acting as a senior on-call escalation point and guiding restoration efforts
- Experience partnering with SRE and Development leads to identify and fix root causes of excessive alerting and pager load
Design for Reliability
- Advanced understanding of systems design, including high availability, deployment, and recovery techniques, plus failure modes and system behaviors
- Specialized depth in one or more areas such as denial-of-service protection or containerization, with the ability to consult others on it
- Able to make resilience and recoverability decisions backed by load testing data and fault injection results
- Experience documenting SRE design practices and contributing to a broader SRE framework
Disaster Recovery
- Experience contributing to DR plans, including recovery priorities, procedures, and guiding others through runbooks
- Able to design and lead DR practice scenarios and incident response exercises, identifying knowledge gaps and improvements
- Experience planning chaos engineering scenarios to simulate faults across memory, network, I/O, or distributed systems
Platforms and Automation
- Able to build engineering and architecture consensus for new standard components and services on the Paved Road, including platforms and CI/CD
- Experience promoting adoption and standardization, with contributions back via inner sourcing
- A champion for Paved Road adoption, driving efficiency by removing rework and silos
Reliability Culture
- Creates and shares SRE best practices and training material
- Comfortable coaching other SREs and identifying development gaps
- Able to spot and eliminate large-scale toil
AI-Driven Development (desired)
- Experience using GitHub Copilot to accelerate troubleshooting, automation, or reliability tooling
- Interest in helping define best practices for AI-assisted development within an SRE context
Behavioral Competencies
- Collaboration and Teamwork
- Customer & External Focus
- Solves Problems and Analyzes Issues
- Learning Agility
- Builds Relationships
- Develops Others
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About the Role
We're looking for a Consulting/Principal Site Reliability Engineer to guide our observability and reliability initiative for Government Systems, running on Azure Government. This is an advanced individual-contributor role for someone with a proven track record leading an organization through a transition to SLO-based reliability engineering — you've done this before, and you know what it takes to get development teams bought in. This is a hands-on SRE role, not a software development role: you'll work alongside other SREs on the initiative, guiding development teams on telemetry and instrumentation strategy rather than writing that code yourself. You'll operate as the go-to expert on Datadog and observability practice, helping define meaningful SLOs and error budgets and making data-driven reliability decisions. You'll also help train and mentor junior SREs, working within priorities set by the SRE Manager.
Eligibility: This role requires U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
What You'll Do
- Guide the observability and reliability initiative, working alongside other SREs to set the technical direction for how the organization measures and improves reliability
- Lead the transition to SLO-based reliability engineering, building on prior experience doing this elsewhere
- Guide development teams on telemetry and instrumentation strategy for their applications, without doing the application development work yourself
- Serve as the primary technical authority on Datadog, from dashboarding to alerting to SLO tracking
- Recommend service level objectives in partnership with Product and Development teams
- Act as a senior escalation point during incidents
- Help improve and evolve the broader SRE framework
- Build disaster recovery plans, including advanced fault injection scenarios
- Advise on SRE training curriculum and content, and help set and follow priorities established by the SRE Manager
Tech Stack You'll Work With
- Cloud: Microsoft Azure Government
- Server Environment: Linux and Windows
- CI/CD: Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
- Observability: Datadog (primary)
- AI-assisted development: GitHub Copilot
What We're Looking For
Observability (core focus)
- Significant, hands-on experience with Datadog — dashboards, alerting, SLO/error-budget tracking, and telemetry pipelines
- Proven experience leading an organization's transition to SLO-based reliability engineering, not just supporting one
- Track record guiding development teams on instrumentation and telemetry strategy (advisory, not hands-on application coding)
- Deep technical understanding of observability techniques across the full stack; able to bring clarity to complex incidents or performance issues
- Able to build templated observability dashboards and configuration as code so others can implement quickly
- Able to set and influence appropriate SLOs and Error Budgets org-wide
- Comfortable operating across both Linux and Windows server environments
Incident Management
- Experience preparing and assessing SREs for on-call readiness, including mentoring and identifying training needs
- Skilled at running post-mortems where participants feel safe to contribute; fosters a culture of learning from failure
- Comfortable acting as a senior on-call escalation point and guiding restoration efforts
- Experience partnering with SRE and Development leads to identify and fix root causes of excessive alerting and pager load
Design for Reliability
- Advanced understanding of systems design, including high availability, deployment, and recovery techniques, plus failure modes and system behaviors
- Specialized depth in one or more areas such as denial-of-service protection or containerization, with the ability to consult others on it
- Able to make resilience and recoverability decisions backed by load testing data and fault injection results
- Experience documenting SRE design practices and contributing to a broader SRE framework
Disaster Recovery
- Experience contributing to DR plans, including recovery priorities, procedures, and guiding others through runbooks
- Able to design and lead DR practice scenarios and incident response exercises, identifying knowledge gaps and improvements
- Experience planning chaos engineering scenarios to simulate faults across memory, network, I/O, or distributed systems
Platforms and Automation
- Able to build engineering and architecture consensus for new standard components and services on the Paved Road, including platforms and CI/CD
- Experience promoting adoption and standardization, with contributions back via inner sourcing
- A champion for Paved Road adoption, driving efficiency by removing rework and silos
Reliability Culture
- Creates and shares SRE best practices and training material
- Comfortable coaching other SREs and identifying development gaps
- Able to spot and eliminate large-scale toil
AI-Driven Development (desired)
- Experience using GitHub Copilot to accelerate troubleshooting, automation, or reliability tooling
- Interest in helping define best practices for AI-assisted development within an SRE context
Behavioral Competencies
- Collaboration and Teamwork
- Customer & External Focus
- Solves Problems and Analyzes Issues
- Learning Agility
- Builds Relationships
- Develops Others
We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click here to access benefits specific to your location.
We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form or please contact 1-855-833-5120.
Criminals may pose as recruiters asking for money or personal information. We never request money or banking details from job applicants. Learn more about spotting and avoiding scams here.
Please read our Candidate Privacy Policy.
We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
USA Job Seekers:
EEO Know Your Rights.
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The qualifications that appear most often in site reliability engineer jobs across Pennsylvania.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems engineering, or a closely related technical field
- Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language such as Python, Go, or Bash
- Hands-on experience with container orchestration platforms, particularly Kubernetes and Docker
- Demonstrated ability to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins or GitHub Actions
- Experience designing and monitoring observability stacks with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog
- Strong background in Linux system administration and cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure
Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in Pennsylvania: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a site reliability engineer in Pennsylvania?
Site reliability engineering has no Pennsylvania state license or registration requirement, so the path centers on education and demonstrated technical skill. Most employers in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and the greater Delaware Valley accept a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or information systems. Candidates who lack a four-year degree often qualify through an accredited coding bootcamp or an associate degree combined with a strong portfolio of infrastructure projects and industry certifications such as Google's Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer or the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator.
Which companies hire site reliability engineers in Pennsylvania?
Employers hiring site reliability engineers in Pennsylvania right now include Google, BNY, and CBRE, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Pennsylvania's concentration of large healthcare systems, financial institutions, and enterprise software companies means SRE demand is spread across multiple industries rather than limited to a single sector.
Which Pennsylvania cities have the most site reliability engineer jobs?
Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Lancaster have the most site reliability engineer openings in Pennsylvania. Philadelphia dominates by volume thanks to its dense cluster of financial services firms, health systems, and regional tech offices, while Pittsburgh's strong presence in autonomous vehicle research, robotics, and university-affiliated technology companies drives steady SRE demand in the western part of the state.
Are there remote site reliability engineer jobs in Pennsylvania?
Yes, and more than most fields. About 20% of site reliability engineer openings tied to Pennsylvania are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting how naturally the role adapts to distributed work environments. Responsibilities focused on monitoring, incident response, infrastructure automation, and on-call rotations are the most commonly performed entirely off-site, while roles requiring hands-on data center access or colocation work tend to require at least some on-site presence.
How can I get hired as a site reliability engineer in Pennsylvania with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is moving from a systems administrator, DevOps engineer, or software developer role into an SRE position, since Pennsylvania employers like Comcast, UPMC, and Vanguard regularly post associate or junior SRE titles that treat those backgrounds as equivalent experience. Building a public portfolio of infrastructure-as-code projects on GitHub and earning a foundational cloud certification significantly strengthens an application. Carnegie Mellon University and Drexel University also offer practicum programs and cooperative education placements that have placed graduates directly into SRE teams at Pennsylvania technology companies.
Where can I find and apply to site reliability engineer jobs in Pennsylvania?
You can find and apply to site reliability engineer jobs in Pennsylvania on Migrate Mate, which lists current Pennsylvania openings updated regularly. Find the roles that fit your experience and location, then apply directly to each employer through the listing.
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