Architect, Cloud Site Reliability (SRE)

Job Summary

Architect and lead large-scale cloud and infrastructure projects focused on scalability, performance, reliability, availability, security, and cost optimization across Azure, AWS, and GCP.

Responsibilities

• Drive initiatives end-to-end from POC to production, including technical evaluation, architecture, implementation, rollout, and operational handover.
• Lead project delivery and execution, managing technical scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and collaboration across Product Engineering, SRE, Security, and other stakeholders.
• Provide technical leadership for 24x7 mission-critical multi-cloud environments, ensuring operational stability, resilience, and continuous improvement.
• Drive observability, telemetry, automation, self-healing, and proactive incident prevention to improve platform reliability and reduce production issues.
• Evaluate and adopt cloud-native technologies and modern architectures to improve scalability, agility, performance, and infrastructure efficiency.
• Design and implement cloud security and data protection solutions, including encryption at rest and in transit, Azure Key Vault, Customer-Managed Keys (CMK), Bring Your Own Key (BYOK), key rotation, certificate management, and encryption capabilities across Azure services.
• Lead application and infrastructure performance analysis and drive end-to-end cloud cost optimization and FinOps best practices.
• Partner with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google to evaluate new technologies, optimize cloud services, resolve technical challenges, and drive innovation.
• Work with internal and external customers on performance, reliability, security, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and resolution of critical technical issues, while driving knowledge management and continuous improvement.

Experience Leadership

• 12 to 15+ years in mission-critical, 24x7 Cloud Operations/SRE teams within B2B/B2C SaaS organizations.
• Experience designing and implementing large-scale solutions across Azure (Primarily) , AWS, GCP.
• Proven experience leading large teams in complex, fast-changing, 24x7 environments.
• Strong customer focus, analytical and communication skills, with the ability to build relationships, meet SLAs/deadlines and deliver results under pressure.
• Ability to simplify complex technical issues, develop innovative solutions/workarounds and operate effectively in agile, constantly changing environments.

Cloud, Systems Networking

• Strong systems and network architecture expertise across Linux/Windows, SQL databases, compute, storage and cloud networking.
• Hands-on Windows and Linux administration and troubleshooting across compute, memory, storage, processes, services, networking and kernel/system issues.
• Working knowledge of Windows and Linux, SQL database and network administration, including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, SSH, firewalls, certificates, permissions and system hardening.
• Experience managing systems at scale, including patching, vulnerability remediation, OS upgrades, configuration management and performance optimization.
• Strong scripting/automation skills using PowerShell, Bash/Shell, or Python.

AKS / Kubernetes

• Strong hands-on experience designing, deploying, administering, upgrading, and troubleshooting large-scale production AKS/Kubernetes environments.
• Strong Linux administration skills across Ubuntu/RHEL and container environments.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, container images, Dockerfiles, container registries (ACR), and container security.
• Strong Kubernetes knowledge covering workloads, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Jobs/CronJobs, Namespaces, scheduling, probes, PDBs, HPA, and Cluster Autoscaler.
• Strong AKS networking and security expertise, including Azure CNI, IP/subnet planning.

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