Job Description

JustinBradley’s client , a leading source of mortgage financing, is seeking a highly experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and resilient cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate brings a deep understanding of cloud platforms, DevOps practices, and software development methodologies to ensure operational excellence, high availability, and system reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and manage cloud-based infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Automate deployments and configurations using Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible.
• Create automation for anomaly detection, self-healing systems, and recovery workflows to reduce toil and optimize cloud costs.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, SonarQube, Docker, and Nexus/Artifactory.
• Implement DevSecOps best practices, including IAM roles, RBAC, SAST/DAST/SCA tooling, and vulnerability remediation.
• Build observability solutions with monitoring, logging, and tracing tools like AWS CloudWatch, Splunk, SignalFX, Dynatrace, and OpenTelemetry.
• Define and track reliability metrics including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, MTTR, and MTTD.
• Architect and support microservices, serverless applications, and RESTful APIs with resilience patterns like Circuit Breaker, Retry, and Timeout.
• Conduct chaos engineering experiments using AWS FIS, Chaos Toolkit, and perform resiliency testing via AWS Resilience Hub.
• Manage and optimize various databases including PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Oracle, and Redshift.
• Support production systems including incident response, problem management, and runbook creation as part of on-call rotations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to embed shift-left testing strategies (e.g., BDD, TDD, unit, regression).
• Maintain architecture documentation, disaster recovery plans, and internal knowledge articles.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in site reliability engineering or a related field with demonstrated leadership in complex projects.
• Strong expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), container orchestration, and infrastructure automation.
• Proficiency in scripting/programming languages such as Python, Java, Bash, Node.js, and PowerShell.
• Experience with DevOps and observability tools (e.g., Jenkins, Docker, Splunk, Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry).
• Deep knowledge of databases including PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Oracle, and Redshift.
• Familiarity with event-driven architecture, distributed systems, and AI/ML integrations.
• Strong understanding of security best practices, compliance frameworks, and incident management.
• Hands-on experience with chaos engineering, resiliency assessments, and performance testing (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• AWS Solutions Architect or related cloud certification; Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) a plus.
• Experience with AI/ML frameworks such as Spacy, Transformers, SciPy, and tools like SageMaker and GenAI.
• Familiarity with project management and ITSM tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow).
• Experience with utilities and developer tools like AWS CLI, Postman, and curl.

JustinBradley is an EO employer – Veterans/Disabled and other protected employees.

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