Job Description
Position Title: Site Reliability Engineer (Staff-Level) Engagement Type: W2 / C2C
Location: Remote
We are seeking a Staff-level Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to provide technical and strategic leadership for large-scale, enterprise cloud migration initiatives. This role will serve as a trusted authority on reliability, infrastructure adjacency, and AWS migration strategy, partnering closely with engineering, platform, security, finance, and executive stakeholders to drive informed, business-aligned decisions.
The ideal candidate brings deep experience evaluating complex on-prem to AWS migrations, challenging architectural assumptions, and translating technical risk into business-relevant insights.
Key Responsibilities Technical & Strategic LeadershipAct as a staff-level technical authority for reliability engineering, infrastructure strategy, and cloud migration initiatives.
Provide principled, data-driven guidance on migration approaches, including rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, and retain (6Rs) across a diverse application portfolio.
Constructively challenge architectural and migration assumptions to ensure alignment with long-term business, operational, and reliability objectives.
Lead in-depth technical reviews of proposed migration plans, identifying:
Architectural risks and hidden or implicit dependencies
Cost inefficiencies and total cost of ownership (TCO) drivers
Timeline risks related to sequencing, coupling, or organizational constraints
Propose alternative migration strategies that improve cost efficiency, delivery speed, reliability, or a combination thereof .
Establish and promote standards and best practices for migration readiness, dependency analysis, and plan validation.
Analyze complex application ecosystems and shared platform dependencies across on-premises and AWS environments.
Identify opportunities for application decomposition, consolidation, or modernization to improve reliability and migration velocity.
Drive clarity around infrastructure adjacency (databases, messaging, identity, networking, shared services) and its impact on migration sequencing and risk.
Translate technical assessments into clear, business-relevant insights for engineering leadership, product teams, and executive stakeholders.
Quantify tradeoffs and risks in terms of cost, delivery timelines, and operational impact .
Influence funding, prioritization, and sequencing decisions through credible and data-backed technical analysis.
Evaluate post-migration operating models, including observability, resiliency, automation, incident response, and overall SRE maturity.
Ensure reliability objectives are realistically reflected in AWS architecture designs and service selection.
Advocate for pragmatic reliability investments aligned with application criticality and business value.
Partner with product, platform, security, finance, and portfolio leadership to drive aligned and scalable migration decisions.
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers on systems thinking, dependency analysis, and business-aware SRE practices.
Represent the SRE perspective in architecture review boards, migration governance forums, and executive-level discussions.
8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure, or cloud architecture roles, operating at a Staff or equivalent level .
Proven experience leading or assessing large-scale, enterprise on-premises to AWS migrations .
Deep expertise in:
Distributed systems and multi-tier application architectures
On-prem infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, virtualization)
AWS services, architectures, design patterns, and tradeoffs at scale
Strong ability to reason about application dependencies, failure domains, and systemic risk.
Demonstrated ability to influence architectural and migration decisions at scale without direct authority.
Comfortable challenging plans and priorities in a constructive, executive-ready manner.
Strong analytical skills with experience evaluating cost models, delivery risk, and operational tradeoffs .
Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into business terms.
Experience operating as a Staff or Principal Engineer in a matrixed enterprise organization.
Familiarity with the AWS Well-Architected Framework , AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) , and structured migration methodologies.
Exposure to FinOps or cloud financial management practices.
Experience defining standards, review processes, or governance models for cloud migration at scale.
Background working with regulated, mission-critical, or highly available enterprise systems.
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