SRE Architect

Job Title: SRE Architect

Location: Vancouver, BC (hybrid)

Duration: Long term contract

Rate: CAD75-CAD85/hr

Job Description/ Responsibility

• Set the project-wide reliability direction and embed SRE principles throughout solution design, delivery, release, and production operations.
• Establish service objectives, engineering standards, availability expectations, and go-live readiness criteria based on business criticality.
• Assess architecture and operational processes for failure scenarios, scalability constraints, capacity requirements, recovery capabilities, and production risks.
• Shape monitoring and service health visibility to enable teams to detect customer impact early and respond through actionable alerts and diagnostics.
• Lead major incident governance, root cause reviews, corrective action tracking, and the prevention of recurring issues.
• Identify repetitive operational tasks and drive engineering improvements that simplify delivery, recovery, and day-to-day support.
• Coordinate onsite and offshore teams by aligning plans, clarifying ownership, managing dependencies, and ensuring effective handoffs across time zones.
• Serve as the primary stakeholder-facing SRE lead for technical decisions, governance meetings, escalations, progress reporting, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Coach engineers and influence cross-functional teams to make consistent, risk-aware decisions across the project.

Must have skills:

• Reliability architecture and production engineering.
• Distributed systems, cloud operations, and engineering automation.
• Technical leadership, consulting, and client communication.

Additional Information

SRE mindset: Takes end-to-end ownership, uses evidence to prioritize work, anticipates operational risk, favors sustainable engineering over short-term fixes, and continuously improves customer outcomes.

Role scope: Operates across multiple engineering and support groups, provides functional direction rather than relying on formal reporting lines, and represents the reliability perspective in project and customer forums.

Key outputs: Reliability roadmap, service-level framework, architecture assessment findings, production-readiness decisions, health-view standards, risk register, improvement backlog, and governance reporting.

Role differentiator: Connects deep engineering judgement with business context, turning complex operational concerns into practical decisions, accountable actions, and measurable value.

Preferred background: Significant experience supporting business-critical, distributed production environments and advising senior technical stakeholders. Relevant industry certifications are advantageous.

Team culture: Transparent, collaborative, curious, and blameless; encourages constructive challenge, shared learning, clear accountability, and prevention-focused action after incidents.