VARITE INC · 2 days ago
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$55/hr - $60/hr
8+ years expVARITE INC is a company focused on providing technical and strategic leadership in site reliability engineering. The Staff Site Reliability Engineer will act as a technical authority for reliability and cloud migration strategy, leading assessments of migration plans and ensuring operational readiness post-migration.
Information Technology & Services
Responsibilities
Act as a staff-level technical authority for reliability, infrastructure adjacency, and cloud migration strategy
Provide principled, data-driven guidance on migration approaches (rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, retain) across a portfolio of applications
Challenge architectural and migration assumptions constructively, ensuring decisions align with long-term business and operational objectives
Lead deep technical reviews of proposed migration plans, identifying:
Architectural risks and implicit dependencies
Cost inefficiencies and hidden TCO drivers
Timeline risk caused by sequencing, coupling, or organizational constraints
Propose alternative migration strategies that demonstrably improve cost, speed, reliability, or all three
Establish standards and best practices for migration readiness, dependency analysis, and plan validation
Analyze complex application ecosystems and shared platform dependencies spanning on-prem and AWS environments
Identify opportunities for decomposition, consolidation, or modernization that improve reliability and migration velocity
Drive clarity around infrastructure adjacency (databases, messaging, identity, networking, shared services) and its impact on migration sequencing
Translate technical findings into business-relevant insights for engineering leadership, product leaders, and executives
Quantify tradeoffs and risks in terms of cost, delivery timelines, and operational impact
Influence funding, prioritization, and sequencing decisions through credible technical analysis
Evaluate post-migration operational models, including observability, resiliency, automation, incident response, and SRE maturity
Ensure reliability goals are realistically reflected in AWS architectures and service selection
Advocate for pragmatic reliability investments that align with business criticality
Partner with product, platform, security, finance, and portfolio leadership to drive aligned migration decisions
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers on systems thinking, dependency analysis, and business-aware SRE practices
Represent the SRE perspective in architecture councils, migration governance forums, and executive reviews
Qualification
Required
8+ years in SRE, platform engineering, infrastructure, or cloud architecture roles, with experience operating at Staff or equivalent level
Proven experience assessing or leading large-scale on-prem to AWS migrations in complex enterprise environments
Deep understanding of distributed systems and multi-tier application architectures
Deep understanding of on-prem infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, virtualization)
Deep understanding of AWS services, design patterns, and tradeoffs at scale
Strong ability to reason about application dependencies and failure domains
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, capable of explaining complex technical topics in business terms
Preferred
Experience operating as a Staff or Principal engineer in a matrixed organization
Familiarity with AWS Well-Architected Framework, Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), and migration methodologies (6Rs)
Exposure to FinOps practices or cloud financial management
Experience shaping standards, review processes, or governance models for cloud migration at scale
Background in regulated or highly available enterprise systems
Company
VARITE INC
VARITE has a definite spirit.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Adarsh Katyal
President & CEO
Sue Patel Arora
Vice President Of Strategic Partnerships
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