AWS SRE ARCHITECT

Position: AWS SRE Architect
Location: Chicago, IL
Interview Mode: In-person (Mandatory)
Start: Day One Onsite Hybrid (3 days/week)

Job Description:
We are seeking an experienced AWS SRE Architect to lead the design and implementation of reliable, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure operational excellence, monitor system health, and drive automation across our AWS environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect Scalable Systems: Design and implement highly available, resilient, and fault-tolerant systems using AWS services.

• Incident Management: Lead the response to incidents, ensuring root cause analysis, resolution, and preventive measures.
• Monitoring and Logging: Establish robust monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using tools like Amazon CloudWatch, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Develop automation scripts and templates using Terraform
• Performance Management: Optimize system performance, capacity planning, and load testing - Hands on memory and CPU optimization experience in Java spring boot Microservices
• Security and Compliance: Ensure cloud solutions meet security best practices and regulatory compliance standards.
• DevOps Collaboration: Partner with DevOps, Development, and Security teams to ensure seamless CI/CD pipeline management and application deployment.
• Documentation: Create and maintain architecture diagrams, runbooks, and technical documentation.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in IT operations, system administration, or software engineering.
• 5+ years of experience with AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS, EKS, VPC, and CloudFront.
• Experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform
• Proficiency in monitoring and observability tools such as Dynatrace or Datadog
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab, Harness
• Expertise in scripting languages (Python, Bash, or PowerShell) for automation and infrastructure management.
• Experience with container orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Solid understanding of SRE principles including SLAs, SLOs, and Error Budgets.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with experience in large-scale distributed systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer.
• Experience with incident management and on-call rotations.
• Familiarity with ITIL processes and service management frameworks.

Knowledge of security best practices (e.g., IAM, KMS, Security Groups).