Candescent · 8 hours ago
Site Reliability Engineer II
Elkhart County, IN
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
4+ years expCandescent is the leading cloud-based digital banking solutions provider for financial institutions. They are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer II to ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of their Digital First banking applications by applying SRE principles and working closely with development teams.
BankingFinancial ServicesSaaS
Responsibilities
Support and operate production applications running on Kubernetes and AWS
Troubleshoot application-level issues using logs, metrics, traces, and runtime signals
Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews
Work closely with development teams to understand application architecture, dependencies, and data flows
Improve application observability by defining meaningful alerts, dashboards, and SLOs
Automate repetitive operational tasks to reduce toil
Support application deployments, rollbacks, and runtime configuration changes
Identify reliability, performance, and scalability gaps in application behavior
Drive continuous improvements in operational readiness, runbooks, and on-call practices
Influence application teams to adopt shift-left reliability practices
Qualification
Required
4-6 Years of experience
Hands-on experience supporting Java applications in production
Strong understanding of JVM fundamentals (heap/memory management, garbage collection, OOM issues, thread analysis)
Proven experience with SRE practices, including: Incident response and on-call support, Root cause analysis and postmortems, SLIs, SLOs, and reliability-driven operations
Strong experience troubleshooting using application logs, metrics, and monitoring tools
Experience operating Java applications on Kubernetes (EKS) from an application/runtime perspective
Experience with deployment strategies (rolling, blue/green, canary)
Ability to write automation and scripts (Python or any) to reduce operational toil
Solid understanding of application architecture and service dependencies (databases, messaging systems, external APIs)
Strong collaboration and communication skills; ability to work closely with development teams
Demonstrates accountability and sound judgment when responding to high-pressure incidents
Preferred
Exposure to platform or infrastructure concepts supporting application workloads
Experience with AWS services such as EKS, RDS/Aurora, S3, EFS, and CloudWatch
CI/CD pipeline experience (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
Familiarity with GitOps practices
Experience with cloud migrations or modernization efforts
Company
Candescent
Candescent is a digital banking platform that offers online banking, account openings, and digital transaction services.
1001-5000 employees
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Chief Product Officer
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