Site Reliability Engineer

Job#: 3025044

Job Description:
Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Charlotte, North Carolina (Hybrid)

Employment Type: Contract

Duration: 12 months

Role Overview

We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to support production environments through maintenance, change control, and incident management. This role involves designing and developing significant application components, driving optimal solutions using established patterns, and ensuring compliance with information security and infrastructure standards. The position requires a proficient technical resource who can provide guidance, collaborate across teams, and lead the adoption of emerging technologies for on-premise, cloud, and hybrid architectures.

Key Responsibilities

• Support production environments, including maintenance, change control, incident, and problem management.
• Design architecture and drive optimal solutions using established design patterns and principles.
• Ensure design reviews, code reviews, and compliance with security and infrastructure standards.
• Perform or support continuous integration and deployment activities with an understanding of DevOps and observability.
• Lead the adoption of emerging technologies for on-premise, cloud, and hybrid architectures.
• Provide technical guidance for platform engineers and collaborate with solution architects.
• Coordinate dependencies across platform teams and teams working on business capabilities.
• Make recommendations to ensure the platform supports non-functional requirements and anticipated growth.
• Identify and assess complex problems that cross several infrastructure domains.

Required Qualifications

Experience: 15-20 years of experience in building and maintaining applications with a focus on performance, observability, scalability, security, and reliability. This includes 7+ years of experience overseeing enterprise-grade platform solutions and working in a highly Agile CI/CD environment.

Technical Skills:

• Core Java, Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Mule, Web Services, Kafka, SQL & PL/SQL (Oracle).
• XML, JSON, and its usage within API and Microservice implementations.
• Cloud-native deployment using OpenShift or Kubernetes.
• Experience with on-premises environments, containerized applications, and hybrid cloud solutions.
• Knowledge of application servers and integration technologies like Mule ESB, Any point Platform, MQ, and Kafka.
• Expertise with APM tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, or AppDynamics.
• Familiarity with JBoss, Tomcat, Cucumber, Unix, DevOps tooling, Grafana, Prometheus, and CloudWatch.
• Advanced knowledge of networking (firewalls, DNS, Load Balancing, Proxies) and Linux/Windows operating systems, including shell scripting.

Preferred Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in a technical field.
• Proven ability to leverage infrastructure automation, DevOps, and cloud technologies.
• Experience implementing best practices, optimizing performance, and ensuring compliance with security standards.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

This employer is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. This employer will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.