Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ASCENDING Inc. is a company focused on cloud solutions, and they are seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer/Cloud SME. The role involves leading the transformation of a monolithic system into a cloud-native architecture while ensuring high standards of scalability, reliability, and security.
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
- 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
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