Site Reliability Engineer

No C to C or sponsorship
Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Reliability Architect
Employment Type: Contract
Location: Remote
Position Overview
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Reliability Architect to provide technical leadership in the design, development, deployment, and modernization of complex technology solutions.
This role will serve as a senior technical authority for reliability, performance, resilience, capacity planning, and infrastructure architecture. The ideal candidate will have significant experience with enterprise environments, including on-premises data center migration projects, and the ability to translate complex business and technical requirements into scalable, reliable solutions.
The position works closely with technology leadership, business stakeholders, engineering teams, vendors, and support organizations to develop and implement solutions that meet current and future organizational needs.
Key Responsibilities
Lead the design, development, and execution of complex technical and infrastructure solutions.
Serve as a technical authority for service reliability, performance, resilience, availability, and capacity planning.
Define and drive service reliability standards, including SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets.
Lead and support on-premises data center migration and modernization initiatives.
Analyze business requirements, technical requirements, operational constraints, and system dependencies to develop effective solutions.
Partner with business and technology stakeholders to gather, document, and analyze requirements.
Translate complex business and functional requirements into structured, high-quality technical implementations.
Develop alternative solutions to complex technical problems and provide recommendations to technology and project teams.
Conduct infrastructure architecture and design activities for new and existing systems.
Research and evaluate emerging technologies, platforms, and vendor solutions.
Establish and promote technology standards, best practices, policies, and procedures.
Participate in system development, integration, unit testing, and user acceptance testing as appropriate.
Estimate effort and resources required for medium- to large-scale technical initiatives.
Coordinate vendor interactions and manage vendor or contract resources when required.
Review technical documentation, proposals, designs, and changes developed by less experienced engineers.
Mentor and coach engineers, technicians, and integration resources.
Maintain expert knowledge of relevant technologies, development environments, infrastructure platforms, and vendor products.
Assist with technology expense and capital budget planning.
Identify technology and operational risks and escalate issues appropriately.
Ensure solutions align with applicable risk, regulatory, security, audit, and internal control requirements.
Collaborate effectively across engineering, architecture, development, testing, operations, and business teams.
Continuously expand knowledge of financial services technology trends, practices, and industry standards.
Required Qualifications
Minimum of 12 years of combined higher education and/or professional experience in systems design, engineering, architecture, infrastructure, or related technical disciplines.
Extensive experience in senior technical engineering, infrastructure architecture, systems design, or site reliability engineering.
Strong understanding of the systems development lifecycle, infrastructure lifecycle, enterprise architecture, and IT Service Management.
Significant experience with on-premises data center migration projects.
Experience defining or implementing SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, reliability standards, and service performance objectives.
Strong understanding of reliability engineering, resilience, availability, performance, and capacity planning.
Advanced technical, analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to translate complex business and technical requirements into practical, scalable solutions.
Experience gathering and documenting requirements from stakeholders at various organizational levels.
Strong understanding of server, client, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure technologies.
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while collaborating effectively within a team environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Strong facilitation and influencing skills.
Ability to manage complex technical initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to quickly learn and master complex technologies and environments.
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
12+ years of advanced technical engineering experience involving infrastructure design, data management/interchange, system architecture, or complex application development.
Experience supporting large-scale enterprise or financial services environments.
Experience with infrastructure modernization and large-scale technology transformation initiatives.
Demonstrated experience developing reliability and resiliency strategies for critical enterprise services.
Experience with project estimation, budget planning, and resource forecasting.
Verifiable industry or vendor expertise in relevant technologies.
Experience working with systems integrators, developers, testers, operations teams, and external vendors.
Experience developing technology standards, architectural guidelines, and operational procedures.
Core Competencies
Site Reliability Engineering
Infrastructure Architecture
Data Center Migration & Modernization
Service Reliability & Resilience
SLO / SLA / Error Budget Management
Performance & Capacity Planning
Systems Design
Requirements Gathering & Analysis
Technical Problem Solving
Enterprise Infrastructure
Vendor Management
Risk & Regulatory Controls
Technical Leadership & Mentoring
Stakeholder Communication
Work Arrangement
Remote
This position can be performed remotely and requires the ability to collaborate effectively with distributed technology, business, engineering, and vendor teams.

Work arrangement
No