Java & AWS Production Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Four Ways Consulting; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Four Ways Consulting is seeking a Production Engineer II to support mission-critical Java applications running on AWS cloud infrastructure. This position combines production support, site reliability engineering (SRE), observability, incident management, automation, and performance optimization responsibilities to ensure highly available and reliable enterprise services.

As a Production Engineer II, you will monitor, troubleshoot, and improve enterprise applications operating within AWS

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 4–5 years of experience in Production Support, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, or Application Support.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java-based applications.
• Experience working with AWS cloud platforms and services.
• Strong SQL skills for troubleshooting, analysis, and data validation.
• Experience with AWS CloudWatch monitoring and alerting.
• Experience using observability platforms such as Dynatrace.
• Knowledge of application monitoring, performance analysis, and troubleshooting techniques.
• Experience supporting production environments and critical business services.
• Hands-on experience with incident management and problem management processes.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and debugging skills.
• Experience working within CI/CD environments.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide L1 and L2 production support for enterprise Java applications.
• Monitor application performance, system health, and infrastructure stability.
• Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve production incidents.
• Participate in incident management, escalation handling, and service restoration activities.
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and implement preventive solutions.
• Monitor cloud environments using AWS CloudWatch and observability platforms.
• Analyze logs, metrics, traces, and application behavior to identify issues proactively.
• Support application deployments, releases, and production changes.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve application reliability and maintainability.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks and monitoring activities.
• Optimize system performance, scalability, and availability.
• Support CI/CD processes and deployment pipelines.
• Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides.

Skills

Java

AWS

SQL

CI/CD

Observability

Troubleshooting

Incident management

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

AWS CloudWatch

Dynatrace

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Four Ways Consulting is seeking a Production Engineer II to support mission-critical Java applications running on AWS cloud infrastructure. This position combines production support, site reliability engineering (SRE), observability, incident management, automation, and performance optimization responsibilities to ensure highly available and reliable enterprise services.

As a Production Engineer II, you will monitor, troubleshoot, and improve enterprise applications operating within AWS