Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Architect

Robotic Technologies Automation; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 124,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION LLC in Atlanta, GA seeks an SRE Architect to design and evolve reliable, scalable systems. You will set standards, blueprints, and frameworks, guiding development teams and SRE operations toward proactive reliability and efficiency.

The role requires deep cloud and observability expertise, mentoring others, and leading architectural reviews to improve resilience and reduce toil across critical services.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in an architectural role focusing on reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Deep understanding of SRE principles: SLIs/SLOs, toil reduction, automation, incident mgmt, postmortems.
• AWS cloud infrastructure, networking, and security services.
• Containerization and orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, serverless.
• Observability design: Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry.
• Programming/scripting: Python, Go, Bash for automation.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and strategic thinking.
• Excellent communication and leadership to influence across teams.

Responsibilities

• Architect and design highly available, scalable, secure infrastructure on AWS.
• Define SRE standards, blueprints, and frameworks for reliability across engineering.
• Evolve observability to provide deep health insights and maturity.
• Lead SLI/SLO and error budgets definitions and implementation.
• Reduce toil through automation and improved system design.
• Evaluate and enhance CI/CD, IaC, and incident remediation tooling.
• Mentor engineers and perform production readiness assessments.
• Lead blameless postmortems and drive architectural improvements.

Skills

SRE principles

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Automation

Observability

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenTelemetry

Dynatrace

Job description

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Architect

Location:

Atlanta, GA

Duration:

12Months+ 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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Reliability Strategy & Design:
• Architect and design highly available, scalable, secure, and cost-effective infrastructure and application patterns on AWS
• Define and evangelize SRE best practices, standards, and blueprints for service design, deployment, monitoring, and operational readiness across the engineering organization
• 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
• With overall maturity lead the definition and implementation strategy for Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Error Budgets for critical services
• Design solutions to systematically reduce operational toil through automation and improved system 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
• 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
• Provide architectural guidance during the design phase of new services and features to ensure reliability principles are embedded early (shift-left)
• Mentor and coach other SREs and engineers, fostering technical excellence and adherence to SRE principles
• 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
• 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

ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION 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. ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION 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 ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION 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