SRE Architect
Job Description: SRE Architect
Role Overview
Key Responsibilities
Architecture & Reliability
- Define and own the SRE architecture strategy, including reliability, availability, scalability, and performance standards.
- Design resilient, fault-tolerant systems for cloud-native and hybrid environments.
- Establish and govern SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets across platforms and services.
- Lead capacity planning, resilience testing, and chaos engineering initiatives.
Platform & Cloud Engineering
- Architect and operate platforms on AWS/GCP/Azure (multi-cloud or hybrid setups).
- Design and manage Kubernetes-based platforms (EKS/GKE/AKS).
- Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.
- Standardize environments, deployment patterns, and runtime configurations.
Operational Excellence
- Build and maintain observability frameworks using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, Splunk, or equivalent.
- Lead incident management, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident reviews.
- Reduce MTTR through automation, tooling, and process improvements.
- Participate in and improve on-call models, escalation policies, and runbooks.
DevOps & Automation
- Partner with engineering teams to embed CI/CD best practices.
- Drive automation across provisioning, deployments, testing, and operations.
- Improve system reliability by eliminating manual operational toil.
Security & Governance
- Architect secure platforms aligned with enterprise security standards.
- Implement best practices for secrets management, access control, compliance, and audits.
- Collaborate with Security and Compliance teams on governance models.
Leadership & Collaboration
- Act as a technical mentor and thought leader within SRE and platform teams.
- Influence engineering culture toward reliability-focused design.
- Partner with product, application, and infrastructure teams to deliver business outcomes.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Systems Architecture.
- Strong experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Deep hands-on expertise with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
- Advanced experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads.
- Strong knowledge of Linux internals, networking, storage, and system performance.
- Proven experience implementing IaC and configuration management.
- Proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages (Python, Go, Bash, etc.).
- Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, and alerting strategies.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in multi-cloud or regulated environments.
- Background supporting high-throughput, high-availability, or data-intensive systems.
- Experience with Kafka, Spark, or large-scale data platforms.
- Exposure to fintech, healthcare, enterprise SaaS, or hyperscale platforms.
- Prior experience as Principal Engineer, Architect, or Lead SRE.
Work Model
- Hybrid / Onsite role based in Austin, TX
- Requires regular collaboration with local and global teams
Why Join Us
- Architect systems at enterprise scale
- Influence platform and reliability strategy across teams
- Work with modern cloud-native technologies
- High-impact role with strong visibility and ownership
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