Senior Java Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Job Title: Senior Java Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Location: McLean VA (Hybrid)

Job Summary

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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering or related field

• 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