Position: Senior Java SRE - McLean, VA

Work Location: McLean, VA - Onsite (Hybrid/Initial Remote options depending on end-client)

Duration: 12+ Months

Experience Required: 15+ years

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and operate highly available, fault-tolerant systems supporting core banking, payments, and trading platforms.
• Lead SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability-driven engineering decisions.
• Provide L3/L4 incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident remediation for production systems.
• Support and optimize Java-based microservices running on Kubernetes(EKS).
• Implement and manage AWS-native services (EC2, EKS, RDS, DynamoDB,S3, IAM, CloudWatch).
• Develop automation using Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and policy enforcement.
• Manage Kubernetes networking, storage, and service mesh integrations including Istio / Anthos Service Mesh.
• Implement advanced Kubernetes storage solutions using Portworx.
• Architect and maintain enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, and cloud-native tooling.
• Automate manual operational tasks using Python, Go, Bash, and infrastructure-as-code patterns.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, Kiali, and custom dashboards.
• Utilize eBPF for deep kernel-level observability and performance tuning.
• Support real-time data platforms using Kafka, KSQLDB, Kafka Streams, Spark Streaming.
• Manage multi-cluster Kubernetes environments, including cluster federation.
• Optimize system performance, scalability, and latency under high transaction volumes.
• Enforce banking-grade security controls, IAM policies, secrets management, and least-privilege access.
• Support environments aligned with SOC2, PCI-DSS, SOX, and internal banking security standards.
• Provide 24×7 operational support, including rotational shifts, weekends, and on-call coverage across all U.S. time zones.

Certifications Required:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS DevOps Engineer –Professional
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)