Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Architect at Radiant Digital
Dallas, TX
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Jul 1, 2026
Dallas, TX
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An architect-level SRE role focused on telecom OSS/BSS ecosystems and IBM Mainframe environments. Day-to-day work spans defining reliability standards (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets), maintaining and optimizing Telcordia applications, overseeing observability tooling, leading incident and problem management, and driving automation and DevOps practices across hybrid on-premises and cloud infrastructure. Suits a deeply experienced enterprise IT professional with a strong telecom and mainframe background.
Senior level · 15+ years · Remote
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 70 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 15–160
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
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What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
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Why we read it this way (7)
The posting's title includes 'Architect' but the role's described scope — SRE practices, hands-on mainframe diagnostics, observability tooling, incident management — is consistent with a deep Senior individual contributor rather than a Staff/Principal org-wide authority. Seniority is set to Senior accordingly.
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role emphasizes SRE automation, CI/CD reliability, and infrastructure-as-code (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers) but also involves substantial operational support of existing OSS/BSS and mainframe systems (pointing to 15-1244). 15-1252 was chosen as primary because the JD explicitly calls out designing and implementing architectures, automation, self-healing capabilities, and CI/CD reliability practices.
The 8-year mainframe/architecture experience requirement is stated separately from the 15-year overall requirement; both are captured (8 years on the IBM Mainframe and z/OS skills, 15 years as the role-level minimum).
Observability tools (Splunk, Dynatrace, Instana, IBM NetCool, Grafana, AppDynamics) are listed as a group of 'industry-leading tools such as' — Splunk is used as the primary skill name with the others as alternatives, reflecting that any of these satisfies the requirement.
The job posting lists multiple onsite locations (Dallas TX, Basking Ridge NJ, NC, Tampa FL) but the caller has declared this a fully-remote role; no metro is set.
No compensation, degree requirement, or employment type is stated in the posting.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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