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, microservices architecture, and cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience with resiliency patterns and observability tools.
• Proven leadership in reliability engineering and operational excellence initiatives.