Senior Java Site Reliability Engineer

Role: Senior Java Site Reliability Engineer
Exp: 16-20 Years
Job Type: Contract
Project: Hybrid
Location: McLean, VA
Industry: Banking / Financial Services

Key Responsibilities

• Support and maintain highly available production platforms across cloud and distributed environments. Drive incident management, root cause analysis, problem management, and platform stability initiatives.
• Monitor and maintain uptime of Java applications and microservices.
• Proactively identify and resolve application performance bottlenecks.
• Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) for application outages and incidents.
• Implement resiliency patterns including circuit breakers, retries, and failover mechanisms.
• Lead reliability engineering efforts focused on system availability, performance optimization, and operational excellence. Implement and enhance observability solutions including monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response automation.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and cloud engineering teams to improve deployment reliability and operational efficiency. Support infrastructure modernization, cloud transformation, and platform automation initiatives.
• Coordinate disaster recovery testing, resiliency validation, capacity planning, and production readiness reviews. Provide technical leadership and mentor offshore/onshore engineering teams.

Required Experience

• 16–20 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Production Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Application Support.
• Strong experience supporting large-scale enterprise production environments. Proven background in incident management, problem management, and operational support.
• Experience working within banking, financial services, fintech, or other highly regulated industries. Hands-on experience supporting mission-critical applications with stringent availability and performance requirements.

Required Skills

• Java
• Linux/Unix Administration
• Kubernetes and Container Platforms
• Docker
• Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• CI/CD Tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
• Monitoring & Observability Tools (Splunk, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Moogsoft)
• ServiceNow, JIRA, Confluence
• Python, Bash, or Shell Scripting
• SQL and Database Troubleshooting
• Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
• Production Release Management
• Disaster Recovery and High Availability Architectures

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.