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• Overview

  McKinsey & Company is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer in Mount Pleasant, SC.

• Role description

  Join McKinsey & Company as a mid-level Site Reliability Engineer and spend your days turning trust-the-team requirements into systems that quietly do their job. Bring Conflict Resolution and Microsoft Azure sharpened over 3 years, and McKinsey & Company answers with $92,000 - $134,000 plus a clear path up.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Hunt down the latency spikes nobody at McKinsey & Company can explain
  • Carry the Strategic Planning platform work that makes McKinsey & Company's next SC expansion boring
  • Spike a Microsoft Azure proof of concept fast when McKinsey & Company needs a yes-or-no answer
  • Build the data-honest Jenkins feature that wins back the SC accounts McKinsey & Company lost
  • Stand up observability so McKinsey & Company sees failures before customers in SC do
  • Scale McKinsey & Company's Flexibility services from Mount Pleasant pilot to SC-wide rollout
  • Backfill Microsoft Azure test coverage on the riskiest corners of McKinsey & Company's codebase

  What You'll Bring

  • Practical command of Vault, with bonus points for Apache Kafka
  • Reliable, accountable, and committed to following through
  • An instinct for prioritization when everything is labeled urgent
  • Familiarity with McKinsey & Company-scale workflows, or the appetite to reach them
  • Strong rapport-building skills and a genuinely positive presence
  • Hands-on experience with modern Incident Response workflows and tooling

  The founders of McKinsey & Company left bigger companies to build something heads-down-and-happy in Mount Pleasant, and technology has been better for it. Respect for your craft and your life outside it sits at the core of how McKinsey & Company operates.

  The bottom line: $92,000 - $134,000, mentorship, benefits, and flexibility, wrapped into a Site Reliability Engineer role that grows as fast as you do.

  As of today's date, this Site Reliability Engineer req has not been filled.

  Your Conflict Resolution story isn't finished, and the next chapter might be a Site Reliability Engineer role here.

• Required skills

  • Incident Response
  • Jenkins
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Istio
  • Apache Kafka
  • Serverless
  • Vault
  • Strategic Planning
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Flexibility

• Benefits & perks

  • Tax preparation assistance
  • Fitness class subsidies
  • Short-term disability insurance
  • Professional Development
  • Community service opportunities
  • On-site fitness center
  • Internet Reimbursement
  • 401(k) matching
  • Accrued vacation time

• Apply before 2026-09-09

  Submit your application for this Remote technology position.