Job Title: Senior Java SRE - McLean, VA
Assignment Duration: 12+ Months
Engagement Type: Contract
Work Location: McLean, VA - Onsite (Hybrid/Initial Remote options depending on end-client)
Certifications Required
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS DevOps Engineer –Professional
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
Required Technical Expertise
- Java (JVM internals, GC tuning, microservices)
- AWS Cloud (EKS, EC2, IAM, VPC, RDS, CloudWatch)
- Kubernetes (CKA/CKS-level depth)
- Docker, Terraform
- CI/CD: GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins
- Streaming: Kafka, KSQLDB, Spark Streaming
- Service Mesh: Istio, Anthos Service Mesh
- Monitoring: Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, Kiali
- OS & Scripting: Linux/Unix, Bash
- Programming: Python or Go
- Virtualization: VMware
- Networking & Performance: Nginx Controller, Seesaw, eBPF
- Experience supporting core banking, payment gateways, or trading platforms
- Exposure to high-frequency transaction systems
- Knowledge of regulatory audits and compliance controls
- Experience with zero-downtime deployments and disaster recovery strategies
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.
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