Movius · 2 months ago
Principal SRE Engineer
Reston, VA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
15+ years expMovius 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
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
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
Movius is a global provider of cloud-based secure mobile communications solutions.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$108.21MKey Investors
T-Mobile VenturesJP Morgan ChasePointGuard Ventures
2023-02-24Series Unknown
2022-08-15Series Unknown· $8.36M
2019-03-20Series D· $45M
Leadership Team
Ananth Siva
Chief Executive Officer
Bill Pettit
VP, SaaS Operations
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