Role: Senior Site Reliability Engineer with Java exp
Location: O'Fallon, MO (Hybrid - 2 days a week onsite)
Job Type: W2 Contract
NOTE: Client is looking for pure SRE candidates, not a Devops Engineer
Experience level: Senior
Platform Reliability & Engineering:
Ensure availability, performance, and resilience of workloads deployed on Kubernetes, on-premises, PCF or Cloud platforms aligned to SLO/SLI objectives
Design, build, and operate scalable, secure, and highly available containerised platforms and services
Optimize capacity, performance, and cost efficiency across distributed systems
Automation, CI/CD & Release Engineering:
Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, reliable, and repeatable deployments
Automate infrastructure and operations using Infrastructure as Code and GitOps practices
Plan and execute software releases across environments (Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, PCF, VMs)
Drive continuous improvement in release processes, deployment strategies, and development workflows
Observability, Performance & Operations
Implement strong monitoring, logging, and tracing to enable proactive issue detection
Conduct performance testing and tuning to ensure scalability and reliability
Lead incident management, root cause analysis (RCA), and postmortems to drive continuous improvement
Required Experience & Skills:
Strong experience in SRE / Release Engineering / Platform Engineering roles
Proven experience managing and operating workloads deployed on Kubernetes, on-premise (bare metal / VMs), and PCF, with good-to-have exposure to public cloud platforms (AWS)
Hands-on expertise in containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes orchestration
Strong experience with CI/CD tools, scripting (Shell/Python/Groovy), and automation frameworks
Solid knowledge of monitoring, observability, performance testing, and scaling of distributed systems (e.g., Dynatrace, Splunk, JMeter, LoadRunner)
Strong programming experience (preferably Java / Spring Boot)
Engineering Practices:
Strong understanding of SDLC, Git-based workflows (Gitflow), and peer review practices
Expertise in troubleshooting and debugging (thread dumps, heap dumps, performance bottlenecks)
Familiarity with security principles and deployment of secure systems
Exposure to Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, and GitOps practices