SRE Solutions Architect - REMOTE

Perficient currently has a career opportunity for a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Solution Architect in in our Cloud and API Platforms business unit. While our headquarters location is St. Louis, MO, this position is remote and can be based anywhere within the United States and will be working CT and ET zones. 

Candidates for the SRE Solution Architect position typically major in computer science, or a computer related field, and have 10 to 15 years of production workload management experience in a related IT field.  As an SRE solution consultant you will work closely with technical leads and developers of various teams to implement process improvements in various domains including: solution platform automation, source code iteration and improvement, continuous integration, observability instrumentation, and infrastructure as code.  You will help design and implement SRE related tools and processes within our client organizations. You will conduct successful knowledge transfer to client IT teams for autonomous SRE work post-engagement.

Perficient is always looking for the best and brightest talent and we need you! We’re a quickly-growing, global digital consulting leader, and we’re transforming the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands. You’ll work with the latest technologies, expand your skills, and become a part of our global community of talented, diverse, and knowledgeable colleagues.

• Provide direction to project engineers to implement SRE platform requirements
• Interact and support cross-functional teams to architect, design, develop, test, and implement error budgets with instrumented event capture for observability
• Architect, design, develop, implement, test, iterate and support Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).  Be precise in helping organizations determine if an SLA should be internal or public-facing, with appropriate accountability and validity.
• Demonstrate knowledge in various DevOps domains (Agile, source control management, pipeline automation, IaaC, etc.)
• Implement Proof-of-Concept projects to validate new SRE solutions
• Build templates, workflows, and repeatable solutions for various SRE use cases as directed
• Implement provided architectural solutions/designs in various SRE disciplines
• Work with near/offshore team members as required as well as clients for mitigating or eliminating technical dependencies, issues, and risks
• Support common vision, practices, and capabilities across teams 
• Engage with Technical Architects and technical staff to determine the most appropriate technical strategy and designs to meet business needs.
• Be an effective communicator at all levels of the business: c-suite, directors and managers, as well as key individual contributors.
• Deliver with positivity and professionalism consistently.

We are looking for colleagues with engaging personalities, a passion for excellence in technology, a problem-solving nature, and these other qualifications:

• An expert-level understanding of SRE, DevSecOps, and traditional systems administration domains including Source Code Management, Continuous Integration, Deployment Automation, Infrastructure as Code, Cloud architecture, observability, error budgets, etc.
• Experience with SRE tooling (openTelemetry, APM)
• Experience with code review and refactoring.      Specific languages are less important than knowing how to collaborate with experts in that language to deliver an optimal refactor or feature. 
• Strong understanding of application release management within a complex environment is required
• Strong understanding of mobile release management
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related discipline preferred
• Minimum of 10 years working in a related IT field
• Minimum of 2 years of scripting experience (Go, Rust, Java, C and variants, JavaScript, Python)
• Versed in bash, yaml, terraform
• Client facing or consulting experience highly preferred
• Ability to communicate effectively via multiple channels (verbal, written, etc.) with technical and non-technical staff
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• A drive for continual self-improvement, particularly to learn and adopt new technologies
• The ability to work well on teams and in front of clients
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Strong entrepreneurial attitude with high energy
• Ability for travel nationally (rarely, but up to 25% when required)
• Flexible and adaptable attitude, disciplined to manage multiple responsibilities and adjust to varied environmen