Systems Architect

Role Summary

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) supports complex cloud-based environments with a focus on reliability, resilience, and recoverability. This role leads disaster recovery exercises, validates platform rebuild procedures, develops infrastructure automation, and supports modern deployment practices. The position collaborates with cross-functional engineering teams to enhance platform reliability, improve automation, and support large-scale cloud modernization and continuity initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Support full-lifecycle platform portability and disaster recovery (DR) exercises, including validation of platform rebuild procedures and recovery playbooks.
• Execute infrastructure-level recovery activities and validate the ability to rebuild platforms within established recovery objectives.
• Verify data completeness, integrity, and accuracy during recovery exercises and document findings and remediation recommendations.
• Identify gaps across infrastructure, deployment automation, monitoring, and data recovery processes and collaborate with engineering teams to implement corrective actions.
• Design, implement, and support Infrastructure as Code (IaC) workflows using technologies such as Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
• Build and maintain standardized CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads, including provisioning, scaling, and reliability improvements.
• Develop and maintain observability solutions using CloudWatch, Datadog, or comparable monitoring and alerting technologies.
• Develop automation, tooling, and scripts using languages such as Python or Java to reduce manual processes and improve operational consistency.
• Collaborate with platform engineering, security, application, and data teams to support secure, reliable, and consistent platform operations.
• Participate in on-call rotations, root-cause analysis, and incident response activities to improve system resilience and operational effectiveness.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 7 to 10 years of relevant experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a related discipline; master’s degree with 5 to 8 years of relevant experience; or equivalent professional experience in lieu of a degree.
• Advanced hands-on experience with AWS services across compute, networking, storage, identity and access management, and serverless technologies.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
• Experience developing CI/CD deployment pipelines and progressive delivery processes using GitHub Actions or comparable technologies.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes administration, container orchestration, and containerized deployments.
• Experience validating disaster recovery processes, performing system recovery or rebuild activities, and conducting data integrity checks.
• Experience creating and maintaining dashboards, metrics, logs, and alerts using CloudWatch, Datadog, or comparable observability platforms.
• Proficiency with programming or scripting languages such as Python, Java, C#, or Go.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure and distributed-system issues, including networking, cascading failures, backpressure, and consistency challenges.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment supporting business-critical systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant AWS DevOps, DevSecOps, Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, Developer, or comparable cloud certifications.
• Kubernetes certifications such as CKA or CKAD.
• Familiarity with Zero Trust security principles and cloud security best practices.
• Experience with GitLab, Jenkins, or comparable CI/CD platforms.
• Experience working within highly regulated or complex enterprise environments.
• Experience supporting large-scale cloud modernization initiatives.
• Experience supporting disaster recovery exercises, continuity planning, platform recovery, or readiness assessments.

Additional Requirements

• Ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust determination.
• Ability to participate in an on-call rotation as required.
• Ability to support authorized overtime or non-standard work hours based on business and project requirements.

Publishing Pay Range: $44.00 - $48.00 Hourly