Resiliency AI Architect with .NET Architecture (AI/Agentic AI, Reliability Engineering, SRE, Observability, Production Engineering.NET Development Background)

Position      : Resiliency AI Architect with .NET Architecture (AI/Agentic AI, Reliability Engineering, SRE, Observability, Production Engineering.NET Development Background) : Only USA
Location      : Dallas, TX/ Austin, TX- Onsite from Day 1
Type of Job      : Contract : 12 Months
Experience     : 10+ Years

strong focus on Application Resiliency, AI-led modernization, and .NET architecture.

What the Client Is Looking For
The client is looking for someone who can guide the team as an architect while also being hands-on in identifying and implementing resiliency improvements in existing enterprise applications.
The environment is a high-transaction trading/financial environment, involving transactions such as wire transfers, where availability, reliability, and resiliency are critical.

Key Areas to Prepare
•    AI-led Application Resiliency
•    Agentic AI / AI Tools
•    .NET Architecture 
•    Reliability & High Availability 
•    Observability 
•    SRE Concepts 
•    Kafka 
•    Database Resiliency .
•    Performance & Scalability 
•    Production Engineering 
•    Modernization 

Key Skills (Priority Order)
•    Strong hands-on experience in .NET development (primary skill), including enterprise applications, microservices, APIs, and SDLC best practices.
•    Experience with AI/Agentic AI, Reliability Engineering, SRE, Observability, and Production Engineering.
•    Proven ability to identify resiliency gaps and drive improvements in availability, reliability, scalability, performance, and operational efficiency.
•    Hands-on experience implementing resiliency patterns such as retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, failover, and idempotency.
•    Strong expertise in application performance engineering, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and production support.
•    Experience with monitoring, alerting, logging, dashboards, telemetry, and service reliability metrics (SLIs/SLOs).
•    Experience with cloud-native architectures, Kafka or other messaging platforms, and CI/CD pipelines.
•    Ability to assess existing applications and drive modernization, maintainability, observability, security, and stability improvements.
•    Experience translating assessment findings into actionable engineering initiatives, Jira stories, and implementation backlogs.
•    Strong database, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
•    Java experience is desirable to support a mixed .NET and Java technology landscape.