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Site Reliability Engineer

Ascending


Job Location:

Austin, TX - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 22 August 2026 (Yesterday)
Application Deadline: 19 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

SummaryAs 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: Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related field.
  • Bonus Knowledge: Knowledge of load balancing algorithms.

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