JobFrame · INFRAS.SYSTEMSAD28B.P7
Infrastructure, DevOps & SRE · Systems Architecture
P7 · P7 — Staff / Distinguished Professional
Median pay · United States
$231,230
$181,651 – $294,340 · USD · annual · national base (function pricing in review)
Median pay
$231,230
$181,651–$294,340
Level
P7
Super-function
technology
Demand-heat
cool
11.9% growth
Summary
Systems Architecture focuses on defining the technical blueprint for infrastructure, CI/CD, deployment strategies, and observability across the enterprise — establishing reference architectures, standardization patterns, and long-term technical direction. Distinct from sibling SRE/reliability-engineering focuses (which own measurable reliability targets such as SLOs/SLIs/error budgets and on-call operations) and platform-build/automation focuses (which implement pipelines and IaC day-to-day), this focus emphasizes architectural decision-making, cross-team reuse, and aligning infrastructure design with enterprise architecture principles. This focus consumes reliability constructs as architectural inputs but does not own the operational reliability budget.
This level — P7 P7 — Staff / Distinguished Professional
Staff-level individual contributor: owns architecture across systems, sets technical direction, and multiplies the output of multiple teams without managing people.
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