The Role
Lead cloud-native rearchitecture of a large monolithic system into microservices using AWS/Azure and Kubernetes. Design resilient, highly available infrastructure with Terraform, implement monitoring/alerting, solve complex cloud networking and security challenges, drive DevOps/CI-CD adoption, evaluate technologies, and mentor engineering teams.
Summary Generated by Built In
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)
Key ResponsibilitiesArchitecture & 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Thanks for applying!
Skills Required
- U.S. Citizenship required
- 7+ years experience with cloud computing platforms, strong AWS and Azure expertise
- 7+ years experience rearchitecting large-scale monolithic applications to cloud-native architectures
- Hands-on Kubernetes expertise, including AKS and EKS
- Strong experience designing and resolving complex cloud networking architectures
- Expert knowledge of Terraform for infrastructure-as-code
- Strong knowledge of security best practices for containers and Kubernetes clusters
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
- Experience driving DevOps practices and implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting
- Experience providing technical mentorship and leadership to engineering teams
- Knowledge of load balancing algorithms
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The Company
What We Do
The ASCENDING team commits to delivering scalable and high-available cloud solutions to clients. We use advanced technology to measure the effectiveness of your current IT infrastructure. Then we help our clients migrate to the cloud and modernize their IT infrastructure.
