Senior Java Site Reliability Engineer – McLean, VA
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Join Nadeem Ehsan as a Senior Java Site Reliability Engineer in McLean, VA. Hybrid contract role supporting banking platforms; pay is $100 per hour.
Salary
$100 per hour
Location
McLean, Virginia, United States
Employment type
Contract
Workplace
Not provided
Senior Java Site Reliability Engineer – McLean, VA
$100 per hour
Job description
Senior Java Site Reliability Engineer
Location: McLean, Virginia, United States
Work arrangement: Hybrid
Job type: Contract
Industry: Banking and financial services
Experience: 16–20 years
Pay: $100 per hour
About the role
Nadeem Ehsan is seeking a Senior Java Site Reliability Engineer to support highly available production platforms in cloud and distributed environments. You will lead reliability engineering, production support, incident response, and performance improvement for Java applications and microservices in a banking and financial services setting.
Key responsibilities
- Maintain production platform availability and stability across cloud and distributed environments.
- Manage incidents and problems, conduct root cause analysis, and drive corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
- Monitor Java applications and microservices, identify performance bottlenecks, and implement improvements.
- Apply resiliency patterns such as circuit breakers, retries, and failover mechanisms.
- Improve observability through monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response automation.
- Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and cloud engineering teams to strengthen deployments 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 onshore and offshore engineering teams.
Required experience
- 16–20 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, production engineering, platform engineering, or application support.
- Experience supporting large-scale enterprise production environments.
- Strong background in incident management, problem management, and operational support.
- Experience with Java applications, microservices, cloud and distributed platforms, and production reliability practices.
Job details
- Employer: Nadeem Ehsan
- Location: McLean, Virginia, United States
- Work arrangement: Hybrid; not remote
- Employment type: Contract
- Pay: $100 per hour