Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Java, Spring Boot & Guidewire (GW)

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Java Spring Boot REST APIs & Automation

Key Responsibilities:

• Automation and Reducing Toil: SREs write code and build tools to automate repetitive manual tasks (known as "toil") aiming to spend roughly 50% of their time on software and engineering projects.
  
• Incident Response and Management: They act as first-line responders for critical emergencies handle on-call rotations troubleshoot failures and restore service.
  
• SLOs SLAs and Error Budgets: They define Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) managing "error budgets" to balance release speed with system stability.
  
• Monitoring and Observability: They set up logging metrics and alerting systems (using tools like Prometheus Grafana or PagerDuty) to detect problems before they impact users.
  
• Post-Incident Reviews: They conduct root cause analysis (postmortems) to ensure failures do not repeat.
  
• Capacity Planning: They analyze traffic and usage patterns to forecast future infrastructure and hardware needs.
  
• Cross-Team Collaboration: They work alongside software developers to design resilient architectures and make applications more reliable by design.
  

Required Skills:

Primary Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience developing software in Java or a comparable object-oriented language.
  
• Working knowledge of REST APIs HTTP methods JSON and common API design principles.
  
• Familiarity with Spring Boot or another modern backend framework.
  
• Experience writing automated unit tests and debugging application failures.
  
• Familiarity with Git and pull-request-based development.
  
• Ability to read technical documentation investigate unfamiliar code and explain findings clearly.
  
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  
• Willingness to work collaboratively with developers testers analysts and stakeholders.
  

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Guidewire and Commercial Insurance: Guidewire PolicyCenter Gosu Guidewire Cloud APIs commercial property and casualty insurance underwriting policy administration or workflow automation.
  
• API Design Integration and Security: OpenAPI/Swagger JSON Schema Apigee or another API gateway API Developer Portal OAuth 2.0 JWT mTLS or certificate-based security.
  
• Event and Data Integration: Kafka Schema Registry event-driven architecture asynchronous processing PostgreSQL Liquibase or database migration tooling.
  
• Cloud Delivery and Engineering Platforms: GitHub Actions Harness AWS Kubernetes HashiCorp Vault infrastructure as code or comparable CI/CD and cloud technologies.
  
• Automated Testing and Partner Integration: Postman JUnit Mockito Playwright or experience integrating multiple systems and external partners.