Lead Site Reliability Engineer: Java Microservices & PSS

ISA; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

ISA seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in Dubai to lead reliability for Java-based applications and airline reservation systems, implementing SRE best practices and proactive monitoring. You will own incident management, CI/CD, and capacity planning while mentoring teams for operational excellence.

You will collaborate with software and infra teams to ensure production readiness, drive performance improvements, and maintain high availability across mission-critical services.

Qualifications

• 6–8 years of experience in Software Engineering, SRE, or Production Support for Java applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead SRE initiatives for Java-based microservices and monolithic applications.
• Define and manage SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Lead RCA for production incidents and implement preventive measures.
• Drive architectural improvements for performance, scalability, and high availability.
• Mentor teams on incident management and production support.
• Collaborate with engineering and infra teams to ensure production readiness.
• Define CI/CD standards and GitOps practices across teams.
• Set Docker/Kubernetes standards for scalability and resilience.
• Own on-call escalation framework and post-incident reviews.
• Evaluate new tools to strengthen reliability and capacity planning.
• Report reliability metrics to management.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Troubleshooting

MS Office

SQL

Distributed systems

Monitoring/Observability

Prometheus

Grafana

Elasticsearch

Datadog

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering/ Computer Science/ Information Technology

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Elasticsearch

Datadog

Docker

Kubernetes

JBoss/Application Server

Job description

ISA seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in Dubai to lead reliability for Java-based applications and airline reservation systems, implementing SRE best practices and proactive monitoring. You will own incident management, CI/CD, and capacity planning while mentoring teams for operational excellence.

You will collaborate with software and infra teams to ensure production readiness, drive performance improvements, and maintain high availability across mission-critical services.