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SRE Architect
@ Hays
Vancouver, British Columbia
Overview
Hays is hiring a contract SRE Architect in Vancouver, BC, on a hybrid basis for a long-term engagement at CAD 75 to 85 per hour. The role sets project-wide reliability direction, defines service objectives and go-live readiness, leads major incident governance, and coordinates onsite and offshore engineering teams.
Responsibilities:
- Set reliability direction and embed SRE principles across delivery
- Define service objectives, readiness criteria and availability expectations
- Assess architectures for failure, scalability and recovery risks
- Lead major incident governance and root cause reviews
- Coordinate onsite and offshore teams across time zones
Requirements summary:
- Reliability architecture and production engineering experience
- Distributed systems, cloud operations and automation
- Technical leadership, consulting and client communication
- Significant experience with business-critical production environments
- Relevant industry certifications advantageous
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-11-12
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-14
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-14
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Engineering |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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Hays
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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.
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