Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Architect

Quantum Technologies. LLC; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 124,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company located in Atlanta, GA is seeking a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Architect to lead the design and evolution of systems that ensure reliability and performance. This role involves strategic oversight of SRE practices, guiding development teams in building resilient infrastructures primarily on AWS. Candidates must have a strong background in system architecture, cloud computing, and SRE principles. Excellent mentorship and technical leadership skills are essential to fostering a proactive reliability culture.

Qualifications

• Experience in an architectural role with a focus on reliability and scalability.
• Practical application of SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Experience with AWS services for cloud computing infrastructure.
• Expertise in AWS cloud services including infrastructure, networking, and security.

Responsibilities

• Architect scalable, secure infrastructure patterns on AWS.
• Define and promote SRE best practices across the engineering team.
• Develop and improve observability strategies for system health.
• Lead SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for critical services.
• Design automation to reduce toil and improve efficiency.
• Evaluate SRE tools, CI/CD, IaC, and incident remediation platforms.
• Provide architectural guidance during design of new services.
• Mentor and lead production readiness reviews for critical systems.
• Lead blameless postmortems and drive systemic improvements.

Skills

Architectural design for reliability

Deep understanding of SRE principles

Expertise in AWS

Containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)

Designing observability solutions

Programming/scripting (Python, Go, Bash)

Analytical and problem-solving skills

Strong communication skills

Tools

Dynatrace

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK/EFK Stack

Jaeger

OpenTelemetry

ELK/EFK

Job description

Overview

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Architect

Location: Atlanta, GA

Duration: 12 Months+ Extension

Hourly Rate: Depending on Experience (DOE)

Work Authorization:

As an SRE Architect, you will be a pivotal technical leader responsible for designing, building, and evolving the foundational systems and practices that ensure the reliability, scalability, performance, and efficiency of our critical services. Moving beyond day-to-day operations, you will focus on the strategic architectural direction of SRE function, defining standards, blueprints, and frameworks that enable development teams and fellow SRE operations team to build and operate highly resilient systems. Leverage deep expertise in software engineering, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and SRE principles to influence technology choices, establish best practices, and foster a proactive culture of reliability across the organization and much beyond observability pillar.

Responsibilities

• Reliability Strategy & Design: Architect and design highly available, scalable, secure, and cost-effective infrastructure and application patterns on AWS
• Reliability Strategy & Design: Define and evangelize SRE best practices, standards, and blueprints for service design, deployment, monitoring, and operational readiness across the engineering organization
• Reliability Strategy & Design: Review current observability implementation to identify gaps and define steps to reach next level maturity of observability setup to provide deep insights into system health and behaviour
• Reliability Strategy & Design: With overall maturity lead the definition and implementation strategy for Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Error Budgets for critical services
• Reliability Strategy & Design: Design solutions to systematically reduce operational toil through automation and improved system design
• Reliability Strategy & Design: Evaluate current SRE tools and automation frameworks (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code modules, automated incident remediation, chaos engineering platforms) and suggest enhancement that will help overall enhancement of capability
• Reliability Strategy & Design: Evaluate, prototype, and recommend new technologies, tools, and methodologies to enhance system reliability, developer productivity, and operational efficiency
• Technical Leadership & Consultation: Act as a senior technical advisor and subject matter expert on reliability, scalability, and performance for development and platform teams
• Technical Leadership & Consultation: Provide architectural guidance during the design phase of new services and features to ensure reliability principles are embedded early (shift-left)
• Technical Leadership & Consultation: Mentor and coach other SREs and engineers, fostering technical excellence and adherence to SRE principles
• Technical Leadership & Consultation: Lead architectural reviews and production readiness assessments for critical systems
• Resilience: Lead blameless postmortems for significant incidents, ensuring root causes are identified and systemic architectural improvements are prioritized and implemented
• Resilience: Architect and advocate for resilience patterns (e.g., circuit breaking, rate limiting, graceful degradation, chaos engineering) within applications and infrastructure

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience in an architectural role, designing solutions for reliability, scalability, and performance
• Deep understanding and practical application of SRE principles (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, toil reduction, automation, incident management, postmortems)
• Expertise in cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS) including infrastructure, networking, and security services
• Strong experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, serverless computing)
• Solid experience designing and implementing observability solutions (e.g., Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK Stack, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry)
• Strong programming/scripting skills (e.g., Python, Go, Bash) for automation and tool development
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and strategic thinking skills.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and leadership skills with the ability to influence technical direction across teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing chaos engineering practices and platforms

QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES LLC is an equal opportunity employer inclusive of female, minority, disability and veterans, (M/F/D/V). Hiring, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, discipline, termination and all other employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, national origin, citizenship/immigration status, veteran status or any other protected status. QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES LLC will not make any posting or employment decision that does not comply with applicable laws relating to labor and employment, equal opportunity, employment eligibility requirements or related matters. Nor will QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES LLC require in a posting or otherwise U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residency in the U.S. as a condition of employment except as necessary to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or federal, state, or local government contract