Job Specifications
Job Title: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Architect
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
As an SRE Architect, you will be a pivotal technical leader responsible for designing,
building, and evolving the foundational systems and practices that ensure the
reliability, scalability, performance, and efficiency of our critical services. Moving
beyond day-to-day operations, you will focus on the strategic architectural direction
of SRE function, defining standards, blueprints, and frameworks that enable
development teams and fellow SRE operations team to build and operate highly
resilient systems. Leverage deep expertise in software engineering, distributed
systems, cloud infrastructure, and SRE principles to influence technology choices,
establish best practices, and foster a proactive culture of reliability across the
organization and much beyond the observability pillar.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Reliability Strategy & Design:
Architect and design highly available, scalable, secure, and cost-
effective infrastructure and application patterns on AWS
Define and evangelize SRE best practices, standards, and blueprints
for service design, deployment, monitoring, and operational readiness
across the engineering organization
Review current observability implementation to identify gaps and define
steps to reach next level maturity of observability setup to provide
deep insights into system health and behaviour
With overall maturity lead the definition and implementation strategy for
Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and
Error Budgets for critical services
2. Platform Architecture & Automation:
Design solutions to systematically reduce operational toil through
automation and improved system design
Evaluate current SRE tools and automation frameworks (e.g., CI/CD
pipelines, Infrastructure as Code modules, automated incident
remediation, chaos engineering platforms) and suggest enhancement
that will help overall enhancement of capability
Evaluate, prototype, and recommend new technologies, tools, and
methodologies to enhance system reliability, developer productivity,
and operational efficiency
3. Technical Leadership & Consultation:
Act as a senior technical advisor and subject matter expert on
reliability, scalability, and performance for development and platform
teams
Provide architectural guidance during the design phase of new services
and features to ensure reliability principles are embedded early (shift-
left)
Mentor and coach other SREs and engineers, fostering technical
excellence and adherence to SRE principles
Lead architectural reviews and production readiness assessments for
critical systems
4. Resilience:
Lead blameless postmortems for significant incidents, ensuring root
causes are identified and systemic architectural improvements are
prioritized and implemented
Architect and advocate for resilience patterns (e.g., circuit breaking,
rate limiting, graceful degradation, chaos engineering) within
applications and infrastructure
Required Qualifications:
Proven experience in an architectural role, designing solutions for reliability,
scalability, and performance
Deep understanding and practical application of SRE principles (SLIs/SLOs,
error budgets, toil reduction, automation, incident management, postmortems)
Expertise in cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS) including infrastructure,
networking, and security services
Strong experience with containerization and orchestration technologies
(Kubernetes, Docker, serverless computing)
Solid experience designing and implementing observability solutions (e.g.,
Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK Stack, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry)
Strong programming/scripting skills (e.g., Python, Go, Bash) for automation
and tool development
Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and strategic thinking skills.
Strong communication, collaboration, and leadership skills with the ability to
influence technical direction across teams
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience designing and implementing chaos engineering practices and
platforms.