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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Cloud, Observability & Automation) - **Company:** The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation - **Location:** Jersey City, NJ, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Build Automation, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Performance Tuning, Reliability Engineering, Software Tools, Software Engineering, Enterprise Software Applications, Grafana, Information Technology, Splunk, Dynatrace, Golang, Programming Languages - **Published:** August 11, 2026 - **Apply:** https://ebxr.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/requisitions/preview/214287 ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. * 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, DevOps, Application Support Engineering, or related disciplines. Talent Needed for Success * Strong hands-on experience with AWS and cloud-native architectures. * Proficiency in Python, Java, Go, or similar programming languages. * Strong Linux/Unix systems administration and troubleshooting experience. * Expertise in observability and monitoring platforms including Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace, and ITSI. * Experience leading major incident management and root cause investigations in complex production environments. * Strong understanding of distributed systems, resiliency engineering, performance tuning, automation, and operational excellence. * Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence technical and business partners. Preferred Qualifications * Experience with AI-assisted engineering tools such as Amazon Q, Kiro, or similar technologies. * Experience designing and measuring SLOs, SLIs, and operational KPIs. * Experience supporting large-scale enterprise applications in financial services or other highly regulated environments. ## Description The Enterprise Application Support (EAS) team supports critical applications across the ITP and ECS business lines, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of enterprise platforms. As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will drive operational excellence across mission-critical systems. You will lead reliability initiatives, champion observability and automation, drive major incident response, and partner with engineering, infrastructure, and security teams to build resilient, highly available applications. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on improving system performance, reducing operational risk, accelerating recovery, and advancing SRE best practices through modern cloud, observability, automation, and AI-powered technologies. Your Primary Responsibilities: * Drive reliability, scalability, resiliency, and operational excellence across critical enterprise applications. * Design and implement observability solutions using Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace, ITSI, and related monitoring platforms. * Define and manage SLIs, SLOs, dashboards, alerts, and operational KPIs. * Lead major incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous service improvement initiatives. * Build automation, self-healing capabilities, and AI-assisted operational solutions using Python, Java, Amazon Q, Kiro, and related technologies. * Partner with development, infrastructure, cloud, security, and application teams to embed SRE best practices throughout the software development lifecycle. * Drive operational readiness, capacity planning, performance optimization, disaster recovery, and resiliency initiatives. * Identify operational risks and deliver strategic reliability improvements across the technology ecosystem. * Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to improve service reliability and operational outcomes. ## Related Videos - [Our journey with Spring Boot in a microservice architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/511-our-journey-with-spring-boot-in-a-microservice-architecture) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Go with the Flow: Stop the Leaks Before Your Memory's a Waterfall!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100073-go-with-the-flow-stop-the-leaks-before-your-memory-s-a-waterfall) - [SRE Methods In an Agency Environment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/348-sre-methods-in-an-agency-environment) - [#90DaysOfDevOps - The DevOps Learning Journey](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/548-90daysofdevops-the-devops-learning-journey) - [Retooling and refactoring - an investment in people.](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/371-retooling-and-refactoring-an-investment-in-people) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Now is the time for industrialized software development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/601-now-is-the-time-for-industrialized-software-development)