Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Architect

Cloud Analytics Technologies, LLC; Atlanta (GA); On-site; Full time

Job summary

A technology consulting firm in Atlanta is looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Architect. In this role, you will design and build scalable infrastructure, ensure system reliability, and define SRE best practices. Candidates should have proven architectural expertise, a strong understanding of SRE principles, and experience with cloud platforms like AWS. This position offers an hourly rate based on experience and emphasizes a culture of reliability and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in an architectural role focused on reliability and scalability.
• Deep understanding of SRE principles including error budgets and automation.
• Expertise in AWS infrastructure and services.

Responsibilities

• Architect and design scalable, secure infrastructure on AWS.
• Define SRE best practices for the engineering organization.
• Lead postmortems for significant incidents and prioritize improvements.

Skills

Reliability Strategy & Design

SRE principles

Cloud computing platforms

Containerization and orchestration

Observability solutions

Programming/Scripting (Python, Go, Bash)

Analytical and problem-solving skills

Strong communication and leadership skills

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Dynatrace

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK/EFK Stack

Jaeger

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Overview

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Architect — Atlanta, GA

Duration: 12 Months+ Extension | Hourly Rate: 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. You will focus on the strategic architectural direction of the SRE function, defining standards, blueprints, and frameworks that enable development teams and the 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.

• 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 to provide deep insights into system health and behavior.
• Lead the definition and implementation strategy for SLIs, 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 and suggest enhancements to improve capability (e.g., CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated incident remediation, chaos engineering platforms).
• 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 on reliability, scalability, and performance for development and platform teams.
• Provide architectural guidance during design 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.

Equal Opportunity Employer CLOUD ANALYTICS 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. CLOUD ANALYTICS 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 CLOUD ANALYTICS TECHNOLOGIES LLC require 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 contracts.