Senior Java Site Reliability Engineer in McLean, VA

Role: Senior Java Site Reliability Engineer Experience: 16-20 Years Job Type: Contract Project: Hybrid Location: McLean, Virginia, United States Industry: Banking / Financial Services Key Responsibilities Support and maintain highly available production platforms across cloud and distributed environments. Drive incident management, root cause analysis, problem management, and platform stability initiatives. Monitor and maintain uptime of Java applications and microservices. Proactively identify and resolve application performance bottlenecks. Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) for application outages and incidents. Implement resiliency patterns including circuit breakers, retries, and failover mechanisms. Lead reliability engineering efforts focused on system availability, performance optimization, and operational excellence. Implement and enhance observability solutions including monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response automation. Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and cloud engineering teams to improve deployment reliability and operational efficiency. Support infrastructure modernization, cloud transformation, and platform automation initiatives. Coordinate disaster recovery testing, resiliency validation, capacity planning, and production readiness reviews. Provide technical leadership and mentor offshore/onshore engineering teams. Required Experience 16–20 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Production Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Application Support. Strong experience supporting large-scale enterprise production environments with proven incident and problem management skills. Expertise in Java application support and microservices architecture. Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, distributed systems, and automation tools. Proficient in implementing resiliency and observability best practices. Excellent communication and leadership skills to mentor teams and collaborate cross-functionally.