Principal SRE: Cloud, Automation & Resilience Leader

Archer; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 85,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Archer, in collaboration with Oracle, seeks a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to lead design, reliability, security, and operational readiness of enterprise infrastructure and applications.

This role blends strategic architecture with hands‑on engineering across Windows, Linux, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and hybrid environments, partnering with multiple teams to reduce risk and manual effort.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in site reliability engineering or production operations.
• Ability to design highly available and secure enterprise systems.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives across engineering, security, and operations.
• Strong architectural decision-making and communication skills.
• Experience with engineering standards and reliability practices.

Responsibilities

• Design reliable, secure, scalable infrastructure and services.
• Set technical direction and operational best practices.
• Identify dependencies and risks before they affect service.
• Translate requirements into practical reliability solutions.
• Lead installation, configuration, deployment, and validation across Windows and Linux.
• Oversee builds and deployments with runbooks and change controls.
• Troubleshoot OS, service, and connectivity issues.
• Define monitoring, alerting, and observability practices.
• Develop automation to reduce manual effort.
• Lead patching initiatives with planning and validation.
• Direct major incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity on vulnerabilities and STIG compliance.
• Evaluate emerging technologies to improve reliability and security.
• Create and maintain architecture docs and runbooks.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship.

Skills

SRE leadership

Cloud infrastructure

Windows administration

Linux administration

Automation

Monitoring and observability

Incident response

Security and compliance

Scripting

Tools

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Ansible

Chef

Job description

Archer, in collaboration with Oracle, seeks a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to lead design, reliability, security, and operational readiness of enterprise infrastructure and applications.

This role blends strategic architecture with hands‑on engineering across Windows, Linux, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and hybrid environments, partnering with multiple teams to reduce risk and manual effort.