Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Architect

STAFFWORXS; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 96,432 - 103,320; Full time

Job summary

A prominent recruitment firm is looking for a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Architect to lead the design and development of reliable and scalable systems in Atlanta, Georgia. This hybrid role focuses on defining architectural blueprints, enhancing system observability, and advocating best practices across engineering teams. Qualified candidates will have proven experience in reliability roles and a strong background in AWS, SRE principles, and system architecture. The position offers competitive pay based on skills and experience.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in architectural roles focused on reliability and performance.
• Deep hands-on expertise with SRE principles, including error budgets and incident management.
• Strong AWS experience, especially in infrastructure and security.

Responsibilities

• Architect scalable, highly available solutions on AWS.
• Define SRE standards and evaluate current observability systems.
• Serve as a senior advisor on scalability and performance across teams.

Skills

Architectural design for reliability

SRE principles expertise

AWS proficiency

Containerization (Kubernetes, Docker)

Observability solutions (Dynatrace, Prometheus)

Programming skills (Python, Go, Bash)

Strategic problem-solving

Leadership abilities

Job description

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Architect

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Delivery Manager @ STAFFWORXS | US IT Recruitment

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Architect

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

Work Model: Hybrid (In-person presence required)

Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Architect to lead the strategic design, development, and maturity of our reliability engineering practices. This role goes beyond operational support, focusing on defining the architectural blueprint, standards, and frameworks that guide development and SRE operations teams in building resilient, scalable, and high-performing systems. The SRE Architect will influence technology decisions, enhance system observability, and foster a culture of reliability across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Reliability Strategy & Architecture
  • Architect scalable, highly available, secure, and cost-effective solutions on AWS.
  • Define and promote SRE standards, best practices, and architectural blueprints across engineering teams.
  • Evaluate and enhance current observability systems, identifying gaps and driving next-level maturity to improve system insights.
  • Lead the definition and implementation of SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for critical services.
  • Design solutions to eliminate operational toil through automation and improved system architecture.
  • Assess existing SRE tools, CI/CD pipelines, IaC modules, and automated remediation frameworks, proposing improvements.
  • Evaluate and recommend new tools, technologies, and practices to strengthen reliability, productivity, and operational excellence.
• Technical Leadership & Consultation
  • Serve as a senior advisor on reliability, scalability, and performance across development and platform teams.
  • Offer architectural guidance for new services to ensure reliability principles are integrated from the start.
  • Mentor SREs and engineers, promoting strong engineering discipline and adherence to SRE principles.
  • Lead architecture reviews and production readiness assessments for critical systems.
• Resilience Engineering
  • Lead blameless postmortems for major incidents and drive systemic architectural improvements.
  • Advocate and architect resilience patterns including circuit breakers, rate limiting, graceful degradation, and chaos engineering.

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience in architectural roles focused on reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Deep hands-on expertise with SRE principles (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, automation, incident management).
• Strong AWS experience across infrastructure, networking, and security.
• Expertise with containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker, serverless).
• Experience building observability solutions (Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry).
• Strong programming/scripting abilities (Python, Go, Bash).
• Excellent analytical and strategic problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and leadership abilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience implementing and maturing chaos engineering practices and platforms.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Other

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