Systems Architect

Role Summary

The Lead / Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) supports complex, cloud-based environments and plays a key role in maintaining the reliability, resilience, and recoverability of mission-critical platforms. This position leads disaster recovery activities, platform rebuild validation, infrastructure automation, and modern deployment practices while partnering with cross-functional teams to support cloud modernization and operational continuity.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support platform portability and disaster recovery (DR) exercises, including validation of platform rebuild procedures and recovery playbooks.
• Execute infrastructure recovery activities and validate platforms against established recovery objectives.
• Verify data completeness, integrity, and accuracy during recovery exercises and document findings and remediation recommendations.
• Identify readiness gaps across infrastructure, deployment automation, monitoring, and data recovery processes and collaborate with engineering teams on corrective actions.
• Design, implement, and support Infrastructure as Code (IaC) workflows using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
• Build and maintain standardized CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads using Docker, including provisioning, scaling, and reliability improvements.
• Develop and maintain observability solutions using CloudWatch, Datadog, and similar monitoring and alerting tools.
• 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 and reliable platform operations.
• Participate in on-call rotations, root cause analysis, and incident response activities to strengthen system resilience.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance related to reliability, automation, recovery, and infrastructure best practices.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 8 to 10 years of relevant experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a related area; a master’s degree and 6 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, IAM, and serverless technologies.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Experience building CI/CD deployment pipelines and progressive delivery processes using GitHub Actions or similar tools.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes administration, container orchestration, and Docker-based deployments.
• Experience validating disaster recovery processes, performing system rebuilds, and conducting data integrity checks.
• Experience developing dashboards, metrics, logs, and alerts using CloudWatch, Datadog, or similar observability platforms.
• Proficiency with programming or scripting languages such as Python, Java, C#, or Go.
• Experience troubleshooting complex system failures, including network, distributed-system, and application reliability issues.
• Strong analytical, documentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities while supporting mission-critical systems.

Preferred Qualifications

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

Additional Requirements

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Position of Public Trust.
• Availability to participate in an on-call rotation as required.
• Availability to work authorized overtime based on project needs.

Publishing Pay Range: $56.00 - $60.00 Hourly