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# Senior Java Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

- **Company:** Staffxpert Llc
- **Location:** McLean, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Application Performance Management, Confluence, JIRA, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Information Systems, Databases, Continuous Integration, Disaster Recovery, Distributed Systems, Java Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Github, Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), Octopus Deploy, Release Management, Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Prometheus, SQL Databases, Datadog, Data Logging, Java Application Server, System Availability, Grafana, Software Troubleshooting, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Terraform, Splunk, Docker, Jenkins, Servicenow, Microservices
- **Published:** July 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us99b9b7da59280d571318d98f2dc8fc1b

## About the Role

* 16 20 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Application Support roles
 * Strong experience supporting large-scale enterprise production environments
 * Proven expertise in incident management, problem management, and operational support
 * Experience working in Banking, Financial Services, FinTech, or other highly regulated environments
 * Hands-on experience with mission-critical applications requiring high availability, scalability, and performance
 * Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills

Technical Skills

 * Java
 * Linux / Unix Administration
 * Kubernetes, Docker
 * Cloud Platforms: AWS / Azure / GCP
 * CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD
 * Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible
 * Monitoring & Observability: Splunk, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Moogsoft
 * ITSM Tools: ServiceNow, JIRA, Confluence
 * Scripting: Python, Bash/Shell
 * SQL and database troubleshooting
 * Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools
 * Production release management
 * Disaster recovery and high availability architectures

Education

 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

Preferred Qualifications

 * Strong cloud-native and microservices architecture experience
 * Ability to lead critical production incidents and drive long-term reliability improvements
 * Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
 * Experience mentoring and leading global engineering teams

## Description

STAFFXPERT LLC is seeking a Senior Java Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) on behalf of our client in McLean, VA (Hybrid). This role is focused on supporting and enhancing highly available, mission-critical enterprise platforms within a large-scale financial services environment. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in production support, reliability engineering, cloud platforms, automation, observability, and incident management, with strong experience in enterprise Java-based systems. Key Responsibilities

 * Support and maintain highly available production systems across cloud and distributed environments
 * Lead incident management, problem management, root cause analysis (RCA), and platform stability initiatives
 * Monitor and ensure uptime, performance, and reliability of Java applications and microservices
 * Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve application and system performance bottlenecks
 * Design and implement resiliency patterns including circuit breakers, retries, failover, and high-availability architectures
 * Improve observability through monitoring, logging, alerting, and automation of incident response
 * Collaborate with development, infrastructure, platform, and cloud engineering teams to enhance deployment reliability
 * Support cloud transformation, infrastructure modernization, and automation initiatives
 * Coordinate disaster recovery testing, resiliency validation, capacity planning, and production readiness reviews
 * Drive operational excellence and continuous service improvement initiatives
 * Provide technical leadership and mentor distributed engineering teams


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