Site Reliability Engineering; SRE Architect

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Architect

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Job Title:
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Architect

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

Work Model: Hybrid (In-person presence required)

We are seeking a highly experienced Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Architect to lead the strategic design, development, and maturity of our reliability engineering practices. This role goes beyond operational support, focusing on defining the architectural blueprint, standards, and frameworks that guide development and SRE operations teams in building resilient, scalable, and high-performing systems. The SRE Architect will influence technology decisions, enhance system observability, and foster a culture of reliability across the organization.

• Reliability Strategy & Architecture
  • Architect scalable, highly available, secure, and cost-effective solutions on AWS.
  • Define and promote SRE standards, best practices, and architectural blueprints across engineering teams.
  • Evaluate and enhance current observability systems, identifying gaps and driving next-level maturity to improve system insights.
  • Lead the definition and implementation of SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for critical services.
  • Design solutions to eliminate operational toil through automation and improved system architecture.
  • Assess existing SRE tools, CI/CD pipelines, IaC modules, and automated remediation frameworks, proposing improvements.
  • Evaluate and recommend new tools, technologies, and practices to strengthen reliability, productivity, and operational excellence.
• Technical Leadership & Consultation
  • Serve as a senior advisor on reliability, scalability, and performance across development and platform teams.
  • Offer architectural guidance for new services to ensure reliability principles are integrated from the start.
  • Mentor SREs and engineers, promoting strong engineering discipline and adherence to SRE principles.
  • Lead architecture reviews and production readiness assessments for critical systems.
• Resilience Engineering
  • Lead blameless postmortems for major incidents and drive systemic architectural improvements.
  • Advocate and architect resilience patterns including circuit breakers, rate limiting, graceful degradation, and chaos engineering.

• Proven experience in architectural roles focused on reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Deep hands-on expertise with SRE principles (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, automation, incident management).
• Strong AWS experience across infrastructure, networking, and security.
• Expertise with containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker, serverless).
• Experience building observability solutions (Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Jaeger, Open Telemetry).
• Strong programming/scripting abilities (Python, Go, Bash).
• Excellent analytical and strategic problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and leadership abilities.

• Experience implementing and maturing chaos engineering practices and platforms.

• Mid-Senior level

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