Site Reliability Engineer

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) Role Summary As the Staff SRE/Cloud SME, you will be a critical technical leader driving the rearchitecting of our existing monolithic system into a resilient, cloud-native architecture. This role requires deep expertise across multiple cloud platforms (Azure and AWS) and container orchestration (Kubernetes) to ensure the next-generation platform meets the highest standards of scalability, reliability, and security. Key Responsibilities Architecture & 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. Reliability Engineering & Cloud Operations 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 mecha