Principal SRE Architect

Role Summary

As a Senior Principal SRE Architect, you will serve as the chief enterprise strategist for operational resilience, cloud governance, and modern infrastructure.

You will define global SRE standards, drive chaos engineering and fault-tolerant architectural designs, and lead the operational integration of AI/ML workloads across multi-cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Architectural Leadership: Drive cross-domain SRE strategy, bridging enterprise front-end, back-end, API, database, and network architectures.
• AI & Machine Learning Infrastructure: Architect scalable, cost-effective, and secure pipelines for deep learning, AI-native cloud services, and heavy compute workloads.
• Chaos Engineering & Resilience: Establish proactive production-readiness criteria, automated failovers, chaos experiments, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Enterprise CI/CD & DevOps Strategy: Define best practices for Infrastructure as Code (IaC), GitOps, and fully automated deployment workflows at scale.
• Enterprise Security & Networking: Direct advanced network architecture, routing, firewall governance, zero-trust patterns, and cryptographic standards (ciphers, cert automation).

Core Technical Skills

• Full-Stack Architecture: End-to-end enterprise systems design across APIs, Databases, Microservices, and Network Layers
• Cloud & Containerization: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (including native AI services), Kubernetes, Container Ecosystems
• AI/ML & Pipeline Architecture: TensorFlow, PyTorch, Deep Learning Frameworks, Scalable ML Operations (MLOps) Design
• Operational Readiness & Resilience: Chaos Engineering, Production Readiness Reviews (PRRs), Enterprise Risk Mitigation
• Observability & Telemetry: Enterprise-wide Logging, Distributed Tracing, Alerting Standards, Executive Dashboards
• DevOps & CI/CD: Advanced CI/CD Strategy, Configuration as Code, Deployment Automation
• Advanced Networking: TCP/IP, Wireshark, Enterprise Routing Protocols, Firewalls, F5/Load Balancers, Proxies, Automation Scripts
• Security & Certificate Management: Venafi, ECMS, CerTIS, OpenSSL, Cipher Suite Optimization
• IT Governance: ITSM Frameworks, Compliance, High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR) Strategy