Site Reliability Engineer

Required U.S. Citizenship / No clearance needed / 100% remote within the US Staff Site Reliability Engineer / Cloud SME Location:

• 100% remote in the continental US Type: Long-term contract (3+ years) Role Summary As the Staff SRE/Cloud SME, you will be a critical technical leader driving the rearchitecting of our existing monolithic system into a resilient, cloud-native architecture.
• This role requires deep expertise across multiple cloud platforms (Azure and AWS) and container orchestration (Kubernetes) to ensure the next-generation platform meets the highest standards of scalability, reliability, and security.
• Key Responsibilities Architecture & Transformation Leadership Lead the technical rearchitecting efforts, transforming a large-scale monolithic system into a modern microservices-based, cloud-native application.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Engineering, Architecture, Product) to define and implement the new system architecture using domain-driven design (DDD) principles.
• Conduct technology evaluations and provide recommendations for new tools, frameworks, and cloud services to enhance our infrastructure.
• Reliability Engineering & Cloud Operations Utilize Kubernetes (K8S) for container orchestration and management, ensuring extreme scalability, reliability, and high availability of the system.
• Implement robust, highly resilient, and highly available components for the system.
• Develop and implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting mechanisms to ensure optimal system performance and availability.
• Drive the adoption of DevOps principles and practices throughout the software development lifecycle, ensuring seamless integration and continuous deployment processes.
• Technical Expertise & Mentorship Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, frameworks, and industry trends related to systems and cloud computing.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth.

Required Qualifications Cloud Platforms:

• 7+ years of experience with cloud computing platforms.
• Strong multi-cloud expertise required with AWS and Azure.

Cloud-Native Transformation:

• 7+ years of experience in rearchitecting large-scale monolithic applications to cloud-native architectures.

Container Orchestration:

• Strong expertise in Kubernetes (K8S) is required, including hands-on experience with both AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) and EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service).

Networking:

• Strong experience with Cloud Networking, with the ability to design and resolve complex cloud networking architecture problems.

IaC:

• Expert knowledge of Terraform for infrastructure-as-code deployment and management.

Security:

• Must possess strong knowledge of security best practices for containers and Kubernetes clusters.

Education:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Bonus Knowledge:

• Knowledge of load balancing algorithms.

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