Java Engineer with DevOps/SRE

Java Engineer with DevOps/SRE and Middleware Technology

This is a hybrid position.

Location: Saint Louis, Missouri

Seeking an Engineer with solid experience on JAVA, Kafka and MQ brokers followed with DevOps work specially on AWS. What you'll do • Provide L2 support production systems like application, database, middleware components, infrastructure and network components
• Manage production incidents end-to-end within defined SLAs focusing on resolution rather than who caused it.
• Interact with various stakeholders such as Release managers, program leads, service managers, development and test leads
• Review operational readiness requirements such as monitoring and alerting, log rotation, and resilience of the components and report the gaps
• Provide pre-implementation support with activities such as release notes review and implementation dry runs. • Protect production components by running health checks, and monitoring latency and memory utilization.
• Automate day-to-day activities and propose changes that improve reliability
• Participate in CAB and provide feedback on change requests
• Support the DevOps team in testing the promote pipelines and suggest automation of configuration items.
• Practice incident management best practices and perform RCA.
• Participate in disaster recovery tests and operational acceptance tests • Analyze the technology stack that makes up the product and optimize recovery time objective.
• Work with team members spread across time zones • Share knowledge, document improvements, and mentor junior resources
• It is good to have skill using Jenkins to orchestrate builds as well as link to Sonar, Maven, etc. to build out the CI/CD pipeline.
• Support deployments of code into multiple lower environments. Supporting current processes needed with an emphasis on automating everything as soon as possible.
• It is good to have skill to design, Implement, and enhance our deployment automation based on Chef. We need proven experience designing and implementing an overall release and deployment process.
• It is good to have skill to design and implement a Git based code management strategy that will support multiple environment deployments in parallel. Experience with automation for Branch management, code promotions, and version management.
• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services-from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.

Tools:


-Log Monitoring Tool


- Splunk -Application Monitoring tool


- Dynatrace


-Ticketing incident/problem management tool


- Remedy


- Dev-ops Basics


- CI-CD Basics,

Overview of Git, Bit-bucket, SonarQube, Ansible/Chef Requirements • API/EG experience • Linux & Shell Scripting • ITIL / ITSM • PL/SQL • SQL • Troubleshooting • Jenkins - CI/CD • Groovy Scripting/Yaml • Ansible/Chef • Nginx • Java / JEE development experience interested in operations • Event Driven Architectures • MQ or NATS broker or similar messaging solutions. • Kafka • Client-Server communication aspects - sockets, TLS protocol • Understands the concept of region and AZs. • Production Support Experience • Deployments MTF/Prod, Maintenance items (including stop/start, Disaster Recovery-related activities, etc.), CR for changes in MTF/Prod