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Programming.com · 18 hours ago

Site Reliability Engineer

McLean, VA

Contract

Onsite

Senior Level

Programming.com is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with expertise in AWS and Kubernetes. The role involves designing and operating highly available systems for banking and payments, leading SRE practices, and supporting Java microservices on Kubernetes.

ConsultingInformation ServicesInformation TechnologySoftware

No H1B

Hiring Manager

Vishal Puri

Responsibilities

Design and operate highly available, fault-tolerant systems for banking, payments, and trading platforms

Lead SRE practices: SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, RCA, post-incident remediation, L3/L4 on-call support

Support Java microservices on Kubernetes (EKS); optimize performance, scalability, and latency

Strong AWS experience: EC2, EKS, IAM, VPC, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch

Infrastructure automation using Terraform; scripting with Python, Go, Bash

Kubernetes networking, storage, and service mesh: Istio, Anthos Service Mesh, Portworx, multi-cluster/federation

CI/CD with GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins; zero-downtime deployments and DR strategies

Observability using Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, Kiali, eBPF for deep system visibility

Real-time streaming: Kafka, KSQLDB, Kafka Streams, Spark Streaming

Security & compliance: IAM, secrets management, SOC2, PCI-DSS, SOX, banking-grade controls

Strong Linux/Unix, Docker, VMware, networking tools (Nginx Controller, Seesaw)

Experience with high-frequency transaction systems and regulated environments

Qualification

AWSKubernetesTerraformJava microservicesCI/CDSecurity & complianceLinux/UnixObservabilityPythonGoBashDockerVMwareNetworking toolsKafkaHigh-frequency transaction systemsCertifications

Required