Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ASCENDING Inc. is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer and Cloud SME to provide technical leadership for modernizing its existing monolithic system. The role will lead the transformation to a resilient, cloud-native microservices architecture while driving cloud operations, reliability, monitoring, DevOps practices, and technical mentorship across AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes environments.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- **Required U.S. Citizenship / No clearance needed / 100% remote within the US**
- **Location:** 100% remote in the continental US
- * **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
Benefits
- 100% remote in the continental US
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