Senior AWS Resiliency Architect & SRE Lead

Insight Global; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Principal Engineer to own the resiliency strategy and reference architecture for a large-scale AWS environment in Austin. You will establish availability standards and lead BC/DR initiatives across infrastructure, containers, and data platforms.

Define active-active patterns, run RTO/RPO tests, perform Well-Architected reviews, and automate recovery with IaC and fault injection. Requires 12+ years in engineering with deep AWS expertise.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of engineering experience, including 7+ years owning large-scale resiliency or high-availability architecture.
• Deep hands-on AWS experience across multi-account, multi-region environments, networking, IAM, Route 53, load balancing, and Global Accelerator.
• Proven ownership of multi-AZ/multi-region architecture, BC/DR strategy, automated failover, RTO/RPO, and recovery testing.
• Expertise in the AWS Well-Architected Framework and production container platforms, including EKS and ECS/Fargate.
• Strong data resiliency experience with Aurora/RDS and at least one of DynamoDB, ElastiCache, or S3 replication.
• Advanced Terraform/IaC and infrastructure CI/CD experience, including state management, guardrails, and drift detection.
• Hands-on experience with chaos engineering, observability, SLOs, error budgets, and incident response.
• Strong cross-functional leadership with the ability to balance availability, cost, risk, and operational complexity.
• Experience with AWS resiliency tools, infrastructure orchestration platforms, and SRE practices.
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification or equivalent expertise.
• Experience modeling redundancy costs and presenting tradeoffs to business stakeholders.
• Background integrating AWS environments after a merger or acquisition.
• Experience supporting regulated or mission-critical environments.

Responsibilities

• Own AWS resiliency strategy, availability standards, and multi-AZ/multi-region architecture.
• Define active-active, active-passive, warm-standby, and pilot-light patterns.
• Lead BC/DR planning, including RTO/RPO targets, automated failover, runbooks, DR testing, and game days.
• Conduct AWS Well-Architected Reviews and drive remediation efforts.
• Build resiliency across ECS/Fargate, EKS, Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, and S3.
• Automate recovery using IaC, self-healing, drift detection, and fault injection.
• Establish SLOs, error budgets, health checks, dependency mapping, and observability standards.
• Lead availability incident response and convert recurring failures into architectural improvements.
• Partner with engineering, product, finance, and business leaders to balance reliability, cost, and operational complexity.

Skills

AWS resiliency

Active-active architecture

Terraform/IaC

ECS/Fargate

EKS

Chaos engineering

Observability

Incident response

Cross-functional leadership

SRE practices

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

IaC tooling

Observability tooling

Job description

Insight Global is seeking a Principal Engineer to own the resiliency strategy and reference architecture for a large-scale AWS environment in Austin. You will establish availability standards and lead BC/DR initiatives across infrastructure, containers, and data platforms.

Define active-active patterns, run RTO/RPO tests, perform Well-Architected reviews, and automate recovery with IaC and fault injection. Requires 12+ years in engineering with deep AWS expertise.