Staff Site Reliability Engineer

ASCENDING Inc. is a company looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer who will play a pivotal role in transforming their existing monolithic system into a cloud-native architecture. This position requires deep expertise in cloud platforms and container orchestration, with responsibilities including leading technical efforts, collaborating with teams, and mentoring junior members.

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

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience with cloud computing platforms. Strong multi-cloud expertise required with AWS and Azure
• 7+ years of experience in rearchitecting large-scale monolithic applications to cloud-native architectures
• Strong expertise in Kubernetes (K8S) is required, including hands-on experience with both AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) and EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)
• Strong experience with Cloud Networking, with the ability to design and resolve complex cloud networking architecture problems
• Expert knowledge of Terraform for infrastructure-as-code deployment and management
• Must possess strong knowledge of security best practices for containers and Kubernetes clusters
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• Knowledge of load balancing algorithms