Site Reliability Engineering Manager

Ascendion

Chester

On-site

GBP 70,000 - 90,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Platform Engineering Manager with expertise in Java and Site Reliability Engineering. The role involves leading a team to build robust systems, ensuring platform stability, and collaborating with various teams. Ideal candidates should have a strong technical background and leadership skills, contributing to the development of scalable systems.

Qualifications

Strong Java expertise with backend design patterns.
Proven experience in SRE including monitoring and incident management.
Hands-on experience with Kafka, MuleSoft, and Oracle DB.

Responsibilities

Lead a team of platform engineers in building robust systems.
Take ownership of platform stability and performance.
Collaborate with product teams and implement improvements.

Skills

Java

Site Reliability Engineering

Spring

Kafka

Oracle DB

CI/CD

Communication

Tools

MuleSoft

Jenkins

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

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Job Description:

We are seeking a Platform Engineering Manager with a strong hands-on background in Java development and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). The ideal candidate will have a broad technical skillset across Java, Spring, MuleSoft, Kafka, and Oracle DB, and must be capable of leading platform stability efforts while contributing directly to development. Experience in building scalable, resilient systems is critical. Knowledge of payment systems is a plus.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead a team of platform engineers in building and maintaining robust, high-performance systems.
Take ownership of platform stability, reliability, scalability, and performance.
Collaborate closely with product teams, infrastructure, and DevOps to address platform issues and implement improvements.
Architect and develop resilient backend systems primarily using Java, Spring, Kafka, and Oracle.
Implement best practices for observability, incident response, and operational excellence in line with SRE principles.
Drive automation and self-healing mechanisms across platform components.
Provide technical leadership and hands-on coding as needed.
Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues, conducting root cause analysis and driving long-term fixes.

Required Skills & Experience:

Experience of software development and platform engineering experience.
Strong Java expertise with deep understanding of backend design patterns and frameworks (Spring Boot preferred).
Proven experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), including monitoring, alerting, and incident management.
Hands-on experience with Kafka, MuleSoft, and Oracle DB.
Familiarity with performance tuning, system design, and distributed computing concepts.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible) is a plus.
Ability to lead and mentor engineers while remaining hands-on.
Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

About Us:

Ascendion is a leading provider of AI-first software engineering services.
Our applied AI, software engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent transformation capabilities accelerate innovation for Global 2000 clients.
Ascendion is headquartered in New Jersey.
In addition to our remote/hybrid workforce, we have 30+ offices across the U.S., UK, Poland, Romania, India, Australia and Mexico.
We are committed to building technology powered by Generative AI with an inclusive workforce, service to our communities, and a vibrant culture.
For more information, please go to www.ascendion.com.

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