Site Reliability Engineer

ASCENDING Inc. is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer and Cloud SME to lead the transformation of a monolithic system into a resilient, cloud-native microservices architecture. The role focuses on multi-cloud architecture across AWS and Azure, Kubernetes operations, reliability engineering, monitoring, DevOps adoption, and mentoring junior team 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:

• 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