Principal SRE & Reliability Architect - Flexible Hours

Hirebridge LLC; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertafore seeks a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to define strategic vision and own enterprise reliability, scalability, and performance for production services. You will set architectural standards and drive proactive, engineering-first operations across AWS, hybrid data centers, and customer-hosted environments.

You will lead cross‑departmental initiatives, shape observability and incident response culture, and govern SLOs with executive alignment, delivering robust platform stability and

Qualifications

• Hands-on cloud operations and reliability engineering experience.
• End-to-end service ownership experience across large orgs.
• Strong software engineering background in modern languages.
• Expertise in SRE principles: SLIs, SLOs, error budgets.
• Proven ability to operate at Principal/Architect scope.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise-wide standards for end-to-end service ownership.
• Lead cross-functional architectural initiatives across cloud platforms.
• Drive observability strategy with actionable metrics and four golden signals.
• Govern SLOs/SLIs and error budgets across multiple product lines.
• Lead incident response with blameless postmortems and timely root cause analyses.

Skills

SRE & cloud ops

Architecture leadership

Observability

Incident management

Executive collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Vertafore seeks a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to define strategic vision and own enterprise reliability, scalability, and performance for production services. You will set architectural standards and drive proactive, engineering-first operations across AWS, hybrid data centers, and customer-hosted environments.

You will lead cross‑departmental initiatives, shape observability and incident response culture, and govern SLOs with executive alignment, delivering robust platform stability and