Senior Site Reliability Engineer with Java exp - Only W2

About the role

The client is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with significant experience in Java and platform reliability engineering. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring the availability, performance, and resilience of workloads deployed on various platforms.

Responsibilities

• Ensure availability, performance, and resilience of workloads deployed on Kubernetes, on-premises, PCF, or cloud platforms aligned to Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs)
• Design, build, and operate scalable, secure, and highly available containerized platforms and services
• Optimize capacity, performance, and cost efficiency across distributed systems
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, reliable, and repeatable deployments
• Automate infrastructure and operations using Infrastructure as Code and GitOps practices
• Plan and execute software releases across environments (Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, PCF, VMs)
• Drive continuous improvement in release processes, deployment strategies, and development workflows
• Implement strong monitoring, logging, and tracing to enable proactive issue detection
• Conduct performance testing and tuning to ensure scalability and reliability
• Lead incident management, root cause analysis (RCA), and postmortems to drive continuous improvement

Requirements

• Strong experience in SRE / Release Engineering / Platform Engineering roles
• Proven experience managing and operating workloads deployed on Kubernetes, on-premise (bare metal / VMs), and PCF, with good-to-have exposure to public cloud platforms (AWS)
• Hands-on expertise in containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes orchestration
• Strong experience with CI/CD tools, scripting (Shell/Python/Groovy), and automation frameworks
• Solid knowledge of monitoring, observability, performance testing, and scaling of distributed systems (e.g., Dynatrace, Splunk, JMeter, LoadRunner)
• Strong programming experience (preferably Java / Spring Boot)
• Expertise in troubleshooting and debugging (thread dumps, heap dumps, performance bottlenecks)
• Familiarity with security principles and deployment of secure systems
• Exposure to Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, and GitOps practices