Lead Software Reliability & Automation Engineer

RE Partners; Jacksonville (FL); On-site; USD 145,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

RE Partners is seeking a Lead Software Reliability Engineer to champion DevOps, SRE principles, and automated deployments. The role is roughly 70% coding and configuration, collaborating with development teams to improve testing, observability, and deployment safety.

The candidate will drive CI/CD improvements, implement test data management, and ensure secure coding practices across JVM and TypeScript codebases, with Docker/Openshift and Gradle/Maven/npm tooling.

Qualifications

• Several years of experience with Test‑Driven Development (TDD) using multiple test frameworks.
• Excellent understanding of automation testing approaches and ability to drive outcomes with AI support.
• Proficiency in JVM languages and/or TypeScript.
• High quality coding skills and secure coding practices.
• Experience with multiple CI/CD systems and deployment automation.

Responsibilities

• Conduct targeted engagements with development teams to improve safe, rapid release cadence.
• Wrap applications with well‑designed tests and smoke tests for deployment.
• Source and integrate test data, implement data masking in lower environments.
• Upgrade runtimes and containerize applications where feasible.
• Keep dependencies up to date and enable seamless updates.

Skills

TDD

Automation testing

JVM/TS

Secure coding

CI/CD

AI coding

Linux

Spring

Tools

Docker

Openshift

Gradle

Maven

npm

Ansible

Job description

RE Partners is seeking a Lead Software Reliability Engineer to champion DevOps, SRE principles, and automated deployments. The role is roughly 70% coding and configuration, collaborating with development teams to improve testing, observability, and deployment safety.

The candidate will drive CI/CD improvements, implement test data management, and ensure secure coding practices across JVM and TypeScript codebases, with Docker/Openshift and Gradle/Maven/npm tooling.