Staff Site Reliability Engineer

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  • Fairfax, VA
  • Remote
    30+ days ago

    Job Description

    Required U.S. Citizenship / No clearance needed / 100% remote within the US 

    Staff Site Reliability Engineer / Cloud SME

    Location: 100% remote in the continental US 

    Type: Long-term contract (3+ years)

    Role Summary

    As the Staff SRE/Cloud SME, you will be a critical technical leader driving the rearchitecting of our existing monolithic system into a resilient, cloud-native architecture. This role requires deep expertise across multiple cloud platforms (Azure and AWS) and container orchestration (Kubernetes) to ensure the next-generation platform meets the highest standards of scalability, reliability, and security.

    Key Responsibilities

    Architecture & Transformation Leadership

    • Lead the technical rearchitecting efforts, transforming a large-scale monolithic system into a modern microservices-based, cloud-native application.
    • Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Engineering, Architecture, Product) to define and implement the new system architecture using domain-driven design (DDD) principles.
    • Conduct technology evaluations and provide recommendations for new tools, frameworks, and cloud services to enhance our infrastructure.

    Reliability Engineering & Cloud Operations

    • Utilize Kubernetes (K8S) for container orchestration and management, ensuring extreme scalability, reliability, and high availability of the system.
    • Implement robust, highly resilient, and highly available components for the system.
    • Develop and implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting mechanisms to ensure optimal system performance and availability.
    • Drive the adoption of DevOps principles and practices throughout the software development lifecycle, ensuring seamless integration and continuous deployment processes.

    Technical Expertise & Mentorship

    • Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, frameworks, and industry trends related to systems and cloud computing.
    • Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth.

    Required Qualifications

    • Cloud Platforms: 7+ years of experience with cloud computing platforms. Strong multi-cloud expertise required with AWS and Azure.
    • Cloud-Native Transformation: 7+ years of experience in rearchitecting large-scale monolithic applications to cloud-native architectures.
    • Container Orchestration: Strong expertise in Kubernetes (K8S) is required, including hands-on experience with both AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) and EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service).
    • Networking: Strong experience with Cloud Networking, with the ability to design and resolve complex cloud networking architecture problems.
    • IaC: Expert knowledge of Terraform for infrastructure-as-code deployment and management.
    • Security: Must possess strong knowledge of security best practices for containers and Kubernetes clusters.
    • Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
    • Bonus Knowledge: Knowledge of load balancing algorithms.

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    LocationFairfax, VA (
    Remote
    )

    Skills

    • Algorithmsunmatched
    • Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
    • Best Practicesunmatched
    • Cloud Applicationsunmatched
    • Cloud Architectureunmatched
    • Cloud Computingunmatched
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    • DevOpsunmatched
    • Emerging Technologyunmatched
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    • Industry/Trade Analysisunmatched
    • Large-Scale Systemsunmatched
    • Load Balancingunmatched
    • Mentoringunmatched
    • Microservicesunmatched
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    • Reliability Engineeringunmatched
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