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Movius · 2 months ago

Principal SRE Engineer

positionReston, VA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityLead/Staff
date15+ years exp

Movius is a leading global provider of Secure Communication as a Service (SCaaS™) focused on enhancing employee-to-client communication. The Principal SRE Engineer will maintain architecture blueprints, lead SRE architecture, and drive the SRE roadmap while mentoring engineers and optimizing distributed systems.

Cloud InfrastructureInformation TechnologyMessagingMobileSaaSTelecommunications
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Responsibilities

Maintain architecture blueprints, playbooks, and templates for SLOs, postmortems, and change management
Lead the end-to-end SRE architecture and define technical, reliability, and automation standards
Drive the SRE roadmap aligned with business SLAs, platform goals, and cloud strategy (AWS preferred)
Serve as reliability authority in design reviews and architecture boards
Architect and manage full-stack observability (Elastic Stack, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus) with integrated traces, metrics, and logs
Define and automate SLO/SLI tracking, error budgets, and incident management lifecycles
Build event-driven, self-healing systems and automate infrastructure, deployments, and monitoring
Optimize distributed systems, Kubernetes workloads, and microservices for scale, performance, and cost
Lead chaos engineering, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement to reduce MTTR
Mentor engineers in reliability, automation, and architecture best practices; champion an automation-first culture

Qualification

AWSSRE strategyElastic StackKubernetesTerraformChaos engineeringPython/Bash/GoObservability toolsPerformance optimizationResilience testingDocumentation skillsMentoringCommunication skills

Required

Maintain architecture blueprints, playbooks, and templates for SLOs, postmortems, and change management
Lead the end-to-end SRE architecture and define technical, reliability, and automation standards
Drive the SRE roadmap aligned with business SLAs, platform goals, and cloud strategy (AWS preferred)
Serve as reliability authority in design reviews and architecture boards
Architect and manage full-stack observability (Elastic Stack, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus) with integrated traces, metrics, and logs
Define and automate SLO/SLI tracking, error budgets, and incident management lifecycles
Build event-driven, self-healing systems and automate infrastructure, deployments, and monitoring
Optimize distributed systems, Kubernetes workloads, and microservices for scale, performance, and cost
Lead chaos engineering, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement to reduce MTTR
Mentor engineers in reliability, automation, and architecture best practices; champion an automation-first culture
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, IT, or equivalent experience
15+ years in DevOps, Infrastructure, or SRE roles
4+ years in a senior/principal-level capacity driving SRE strategy and automation
Proven success designing and scaling large distributed, cloud-native platforms
Deep knowledge of AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, IAM, VPC, Kafka, CloudWatch, API Gateway, Lambda, WAF, KMS)
HelmChart mastery and container orchestration (EKS)
Hands-on experience with Elastic APM and observability tools
Expert in Terraform, Jenkins, Bitbucket, and Python/Bash/Go scripting
Strong grasp of SLO/SLI frameworks, error budgets, and AIOps
Experience in chaos engineering, performance optimization, and resilience testing
Excellent documentation and system design communication skills

Preferred

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or DevOps Engineer – Professional
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Application Developer (CKAD)
SRE Foundation, Google SRE, Dynatrace Performance Professional, or Elastic Certified Engineer

Company

Movius

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Movius is a global provider of cloud-based secure mobile communications solutions.
dateFounded in 1999
location
Cupertino, California, USA
people-size51-200 employees
web-link
http://www.movius.ai

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2024 (6)
2023 (3)
2021 (3)
2020 (5)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$108.21M
Key Investors
T-Mobile VenturesJP Morgan ChasePointGuard Ventures
2023-02-24Series Unknown
2022-08-15Series Unknown· $8.36M
2019-03-20Series D· $45M

Leadership Team

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Ananth Siva
Chief Executive Officer
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Bill Pettit
VP, SaaS Operations
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