Local Only - "Site Reliability Engineer (with Java expertise)" - Riverwood, IL (Hybrid Onsite) - CG

Role: Site Reliability Engineer (with Java expertise)

Locations: Riverwood, IL (Hybrid Onsite)

Duration: 12+ Months Contract

F2F Interview Highly Preferred - for Local Candidates

Note: Candidate needs to be in the office 3-4 Days every week. Local or candidates from adjacent states only.

Position Overview:

• We are looking for a highly skilled Java-SRE Engineer to join our platform and reliability engineering team.
• This role blends deep Java engineering expertise with strong Site Reliability Engineering SRE practices.
• The ideal candidate will ensure the availability performance scalability and reliability of mission-critical applications while contributing to automation monitoring and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

Reliability Performance:

• Ensure high availability and reliability of Java-based applications and microservices.
• Monitor system performance analyze logs and troubleshoot production issues.
• Support SLO/ SLI/ SLA definitions tracking and optimization.
• Perform capacity planning load testing and performance tuning.

Automation DevOps Enablement:

• Automate operational processes using scripts or tools: Python, Bash, Ansible, Jenkins, etc.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to improve delivery speed and stability.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Terraform, Helm, CloudFormation for repeatable environments.
• Enhance deployment workflows and reduce manual operational efforts.

Java Engineering Platform Support:

• Collaborate with development teams to improve service architecture and reliability.
• Review and optimize Java services: Spring Boot, Microservices for performance and resiliency.
• Participate in on call rotation and drive incident response and root cause analysis

Monitoring Logging Observability:

• Implement and optimize observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, Datadog.
• Build dashboards alerts and metrics to detect anomalies and prevent outages.
• Develop automated self-healing and remediation solutions.

Security Compliance:

• Enforce secure coding and deployment practices.
• Ensure compliance with organizations security standards.
• Patch vulnerabilities and support regular audits.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science Engineering or similar field or equivalent experience.
• 8 years of experience as an SRE DevOps Engineer or Java Engineer.
• Strong experience with Java 8 Spring Boot Microservices and JVM tuning.

Hands-on experience with:

• Linux systems administration, performance tuning.
• CI/CD tools Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps.
• Containers Docker Kubernetes GKE EKS AKS or OpenShift.
• Infrastructure as Code Terraform, Helm, Ansible.
• Monitoring, Logging, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk or similar
• Strong debugging and incident management skills.
• Proficiency in scripting Python, Bash, Shell.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with cloud platforms AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
• Knowledge of distributed systems service mesh and API gateway technologies.
• Exposure to message queues such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Familiarity with chaos engineering and resilience testing.
• Experience with Bluegreen Canary or progressive deployment strategies.

Soft Skills:

• Strong analytical thinking and ability to troubleshoot complex problems.
• Excellent communication skills for cross team collaboration.
• Ownership mindset with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Ability to work in fastmoving Agile environments.