Senior SRE & Cloud Architect — Remote US

ASCENDING; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

ASCENDING is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer/Cloud SME to lead the transformation of a large monolith into a cloud-native, scalable architecture. You will drive multi-cloud (AWS/Azure) efforts and Kubernetes-based orchestration, while embedding security and reliability into the platform.

You will mentor juniors, partner with Engineering, Architecture, and Product teams, and define a target architecture using domain-driven design.

Qualifications

• Cloud platforms: AWS and Azure with 7+ years experience.
• 7+ years re-architecting monolithic apps to cloud-native.
• Kubernetes/K8S architecture with AKS/EKS hands-on.
• Terraform for IAC deployment and management.
• Security best practices for containers and Kubernetes.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/SE or related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead rearchitecture from monolith to cloud-native microservices.
• Collaborate across Engineering, Architecture, Product using domain-driven design.
• Develop monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure availability.
• Drive DevOps practices across SDLC for CI/CD.
• Mentor junior team members.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring

DDD principles

Cloud architecture

Multicloud

Education

CS/Software Eng degree

Tools

Kubernetes (K8S)

AKS

EKS

Terraform

Cloud networking

Job description

ASCENDING is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer/Cloud SME to lead the transformation of a large monolith into a cloud-native, scalable architecture. You will drive multi-cloud (AWS/Azure) efforts and Kubernetes-based orchestration, while embedding security and reliability into the platform.

You will mentor juniors, partner with Engineering, Architecture, and Product teams, and define a target architecture using domain-driven design.