SRE Architect

Job Description: SRE Architect

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Reliability

• Define and own the SRE architecture strategy, including reliability, availability, scalability, and performance standards.
• Design resilient, fault-tolerant systems for cloud-native and hybrid environments.
• Establish and govern SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets across platforms and services.
• Lead capacity planning, resilience testing, and chaos engineering initiatives.

Platform & Cloud Engineering

• Architect and operate platforms on AWS/GCP/Azure (multi-cloud or hybrid setups).
• Design and manage Kubernetes-based platforms (EKS/GKE/AKS).
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Standardize environments, deployment patterns, and runtime configurations.

Operational Excellence

• Build and maintain observability frameworks using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, Splunk, or equivalent.
• Lead incident management, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident reviews.
• Reduce MTTR through automation, tooling, and process improvements.
• Participate in and improve on-call models, escalation policies, and runbooks.

DevOps & Automation

• Partner with engineering teams to embed CI/CD best practices.
• Drive automation across provisioning, deployments, testing, and operations.
• Improve system reliability by eliminating manual operational toil.

Security & Governance

• Architect secure platforms aligned with enterprise security standards.
• Implement best practices for secrets management, access control, compliance, and audits.
• Collaborate with Security and Compliance teams on governance models.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Act as a technical mentor and thought leader within SRE and platform teams.
• Influence engineering culture toward reliability-focused design.
• Partner with product, application, and infrastructure teams to deliver business outcomes.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Systems Architecture.
• Strong experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep hands-on expertise with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Advanced experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads.
• Strong knowledge of Linux internals, networking, storage, and system performance.
• Proven experience implementing IaC and configuration management.
• Proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages (Python, Go, Bash, etc.).
• Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, and alerting strategies.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in multi-cloud or regulated environments.
• Background supporting high-throughput, high-availability, or data-intensive systems.
• Experience with Kafka, Spark, or large-scale data platforms.
• Exposure to fintech, healthcare, enterprise SaaS, or hyperscale platforms.
• Prior experience as Principal Engineer, Architect, or Lead SRE.

Work Model

• Hybrid / Onsite role based in Austin, TX
• Requires regular collaboration with local and global teams

Why Join Us

• Architect systems at enterprise scale
• Influence platform and reliability strategy across teams
• Work with modern cloud-native technologies
• High-impact role with strong visibility and ownership