Site Reliability Engineer

Edward Jones
Site Reliability Engineer
100% remote
Initial contract is 6 months, but will be a multi year engagement.

Position Overview:
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of our systems. You will be responsible for incident management, root cause analysis, and implementing postmortem processes to prevent future incidents. Your expertise in VMware, Linux, Networking, Kubernetes, Java, IBM Mainframe/DB2, Oracle, MongoDB, Messaging systems(Kafka) and SRE tools like Dynatrace, and Splunk will be instrumental in maintaining and optimizing our infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
• Lead incident management efforts, including rapid response, coordination, and communication during incidents.
• Conduct thorough root cause analysis (RCA) for incidents and drive the implementation of corrective actions.
• Develop and refine postmortem processes to ensure continuous learning and improvement from incidents.
• Design, implement, and maintain highly available and scalable systems using Kubernetes.
• Develop and optimize Java applications for performance and reliability.
• Utilize Dynatrace and Splunk for monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting system issues.
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate reliability and observability best practices into the software development lifecycle.
• Automate repetitive tasks and processes to reduce toil and improve efficiency.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 2-5 years of experience as an SRE worked on on-premise systems like VMware, Kubernetes and Database systems.
• Strong experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and postmortem processes.
• Expertise in Kubernetes, Java, Dynatrace, Grafana and Splunk.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) and automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform).
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.