SRE Architect

• Deep understanding of SRE principles, SRE model, and DevOps methodologies.
• Experience designing highly available, scalable, and resilient distributed systems.
• Proficient in architectural design (Microservices, Cloud-native, Event-driven architecture).
• Skilled in cloud platforms: Azure, Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong knowledge of observability tools: UIM, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, AppDynamics.

• Define and validate SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, error budgets, and availability targets.
• Design runbooks, escalation policies, and chaos testing frameworks.
• Create reusable templates for observability, alerting, and logging.
• Ensure compliance and audit readiness.

• Collaborate with architects, designers, platform and infra teams.
• Document frameworks and lead adoption across teams.
• Review designs and validate reliability criteria.

• Define and maintain the SRE operating model, framework, and onboarding guide.
• Create templates and reference architectures for observability, alerting, and runbooks.
• Standardize definitions of availability, reliability, latency, and performance.

• Participate in application architecture reviews to validate SRE compliance.
• Recommend design patterns for fault tolerance, failover, auto-scaling, and DR.
• Define observability-by-design principles.

• Establish and lead SRE councils or review boards.
• Define SRE maturity models, scorecards, and compliance checks.
• Perform SRE audits across product portfolios.
• Guide teams on capacity modeling, load distribution, and cost-efficiency strategies.
• Collaborate with platform teams on resource reservations and right-sizing.

• Evaluate and recommend standard SRE toolchains for monitoring, logging, tracing.
• Own the integration strategy across observability platforms.

• Conduct SRE bootcamps for application and infra teams.
• Champion a blameless culture and continuous improvement mindset.
• Drive Error Budget policies and reliability trade-off discussions.
• Mentor product teams on SRE integration strategies.
• Influence architectural decisions with SRE perspectives.

Santosh Bathula