Digital Apps SRE

Highbrow LLC; Berkeley Heights (NJ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology consulting firm is seeking a Digital Apps SRE to provide hands-on support for production applications in Berkeley Heights, NJ. The role includes 24/7 support, performance tuning, and collaborating with engineering teams. Ideal candidates will have expertise in Linux system administration and JBoss/WildFly, along with experience in incident management and documentation. This long-term position offers a dynamic environment with opportunities to work on containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• Experience troubleshooting and managing Linux systems and services.
• Adept in scripting for task automation.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with third-party vendors.

Responsibilities

• Support existing environments and perform software installations, upgrades, and configurations.
• Provide 24x7 support for production Internet applications.
• Drive technical escalations during incidents.
• Participate in production support activities and hands-on resolution of issues.
• Document defects and perform root cause analysis.

Skills

Nginx or Apache configurations and reverse proxies

Linux system administration

JBoss or WildFly Administration experience

On-Call rotation participation

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

JIRA

Confluence

ServiceNow

Job description

Job Title: Digital Apps SRE

Job ID: 2024-12921

Job Location: Berkeley Heights NJ

Job Travel Location(s):

# Positions: 1

Employment Type: W2

Duration:Long Term

# of Layers:0

Work Eligibility:All Work Authorizations are Permitted – No Visa Transfers

Key Technology:Web Servers, Linux, JBoss, WildFly

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide hands-on support for existing environments to include performance of the following related tasks: software installation, patch installation, upgrades, query writing, configuration, security, system monitoring and tuning, disaster recovery planning, and release deployments.
• Provide 24×7 support of production Internet applications on a rotating basis.
• Point of escalation for application support to diagnose and resolve complex customer issues in accessing the Portal and Web Services environments.
• Drive Incident crisis technical bridges and/or management bridges, as required and leverages experience and organizational knowledge to reduce MTTR.
• Work with Change Management/ Release Managers to review proposed change events for production.
• Participate in all Production Support activities during incidents and outages. Hands-on technical resource capable of resolving all technical issues within lower and upper environments and making recommendations for performance and capacity improvements.
• Document install-defects and assign severity to the problems that occurred. After fallback, perform postmortem to identify root cause analysis (RCA).
• Participate in internal and external audits, as required by management.
• Work closely with Engineering to ensure all relevant KPI’s are implemented within the monitoring framework.
• Escalate issues to the technology, operations, and/or vendor(s) where appropriate.
• Ensure database/application controls and procedures remain compliant with Corporate IT risk.
• Support Disaster Recovery tests and live recovery for all production environments.

Skills and Experience Required:

Required :-

• Web Servers: Nginx or Apache configurations and reverse proxies
• Linux system administration – ability to manage and troubleshoot Linux systems and services, bash scripting
• JBoss or WildFly Administration experience
• Experience working with third-party vendors
• Able to participate in On-Call rotation

Desired: –

• Containerization technologies: Docker, Kubernetes
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery tools: Azure DevOps, Jenkins
• Networking: solid understanding of routing and networking concepts
• Experience working in an Agile development environment
• Collaboration platforms such as JIRA, Confluence, Wiki, ServiceNow

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree required; relevant, equivalent work experience may be substituted for degree requirement