Stratitech Services LLC · 3 weeks ago
Staff Site Reliability Engineer/ Cloud Migration
United States
Contract
Remote
Lead/Staff
$180K/yr - $220K/yr
8+ years expStratitech Services LLC is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with expertise in cloud migration to guide the transition of products and platforms to AWS. This role involves providing technical authority, leading migration strategies, and ensuring operational readiness while collaborating across various teams.
Information Technology & Services
Hiring Manager
Kathy Bates
Responsibilities
Act as a Staff-level authority for cloud migration, reliability, and infrastructure strategy
Provide data-driven guidance on migration approaches (rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, retain)
Challenge architectural assumptions to align decisions with long-term operational and business goals
Lead deep-dive reviews of proposed migration plans to identify:
Architectural risks & implicit dependencies
Cost inefficiencies & TCO drivers
Timeline risks related to sequencing or organizational constraints
Recommend alternative strategies that improve reliability, cost, and delivery speed
Define standards for readiness assessments, dependency analysis, and plan validation
Collect, normalize, and analyze migration data across teams
Build dashboards for progress tracking, risk heatmaps, and cost projections
Maintain authoritative inventories of applications, servers, and dependencies
Map application & shared service dependencies across on-prem and AWS ecosystems
Develop and update architectural diagrams to support migration readiness
Translate technical findings into business-impact insights for engineering, product, and executive stakeholders
Quantify tradeoffs in terms of cost, timeline, and operational risk
Influence prioritization, sequencing, and funding decisions
Evaluate post-migration operational models (observability, resiliency, automation, incident response)
Ensure AWS architectures align with reliability and performance expectations
Advocate pragmatic investments aligned with business criticality
Partner with product, platform, security, finance, and portfolio teams to drive aligned migration outcomes
Mentor engineers on systems thinking, dependency mapping, and business-aware SRE practices
Represent SRE in architecture councils and governance forums
Qualification
Required
8+ years in SRE, platform engineering, infrastructure, or cloud architecture (Staff-level experience preferred)
Hands-on experience leading or evaluating large-scale on-prem → AWS migrations
Deep understanding of distributed systems, multi-tier architectures, and on-prem infrastructure
Strong AWS knowledge (services, patterns, tradeoffs at scale)
Expertise in dependency mapping and architecture visualization (Lucidchart, Visio, etc.)
Strong ability to influence decisions without direct authority
Comfortable challenging assumptions in an executive-friendly manner
Strong analytical and financial reasoning (TCO, cost modeling, risk evaluation)
Exceptional communication and storytelling skills
Preferred
Staff/Principal-level engineering experience in a matrixed environment
Familiarity with AWS Well-Architected Framework, CAF, and migration methodologies (6Rs)
Exposure to FinOps or cloud financial management practices
Experience defining standards, governance, or review processes for cloud migration
Background in regulated or high-availability enterprise environments
Company
Stratitech Services LLC
About StratITech At StratITech, we help businesses scale, innovate, and transform through technology.
2-10 employees
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