SRE Archiect || Onsite at Phoenix, AZ || W2 || Only Locals

We are seeking a highly experienced Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Senior Architect to lead the design, implementation, and optimization of large-scale, highly available, and secure production systems. The ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in architecting SRE frameworks, modern observability platforms, DevOps automation, cloud infrastructure, reliability engineering, and incident management across distributed systems.

This role requires hands-on technical leadership, architectural vision, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional engineering, platform, and security teams to drive service reliability, performance, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

SRE Architecture & Reliability Engineering

• Define and drive the overall SRE architecture, standards, best practices, and governance.

• Design highly scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant infrastructure and application architectures.

• Lead the implementation of SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and reliability KPIs across critical services.

• Build strategies for system reliability automation and proactive production hardening.

Observability, Monitoring & Incident Management

• Architect and implement enterprise-level observability platforms (metrics, logs, traces, events).

• Reduce alert fatigue by ensuring actionable alerting and fully automated runbooks.

• Drive major incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident reviews.

• Establish incident lifecycle processes and on-call operational frameworks.

DevOps, Automation & Cloud Engineering

• Architect and automate CI/CD pipelines using modern DevOps toolsets.

• Design IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code) solutions using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or similar tools.

• Enable automated deployment strategies—blue/green, rolling, canary—across cloud and hybrid environments.

• Build self-healing, auto-remediation, and predictive scaling solutions.

Cloud Platform Expertise

• Architect cloud-native and hybrid solutions using AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

• Lead cloud migration strategies, cloud security integration, and compliance automation.

• Implement cost-optimized, high-availability cloud architectures with deep understanding of distributed systems.

Chaos Engineering & Resilience

• Lead resilience testing programs including chaos engineering, fault injection, and DR simulation.

• Develop resilience scorecards and reliability maturity frameworks.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Work with application, security, data, and infrastructure teams to ensure reliability is built into design.

• Mentor and guide SRE and DevOps teams on best practices, automation, and scalable architecture.

• Influence enterprise-level technical direction and participate in architecture review boards.

Required Skills & Experience

• 12+ years of IT experience with 6+ years in SRE/DevOps architecture.

• Strong expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) and distributed systems.

• Deep knowledge of:

  • Kubernetes, Docker, service mesh

  • Observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, Datadog, New Relic)

  • CI/CD systems (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Harness, ArgoCD, etc.)

  • IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm)

• Strong understanding of networking, cloud security, IAM, and compliance frameworks.

• Experience with incident response, operational playbooks, and reliability governance.

• Excellent communication and ability to influence leadership and engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications in AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform architecture.

• Experience with chaos engineering tools such as Gremlin or Litmus.

• Background in financial services or other highly regulated industries.

• Hands-on programming skills in Python, Go, or Java.