Lead Software Reliability Engineer

RE Partners Consulting; New York (NY); On-site; USD 145,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

RE Partners Consulting seeks an experienced Lead Software Reliability Engineer to drive CI, testing, and safe automated deployments. This hands-on role is about 70% coding and configuration, empowering development teams to release rapidly and securely.

Applicants should have strong JVM and TypeScript skills, plus experience with Docker, OpenShift, Gradle, Maven, and Ansible. Base salary ranges from $145,000 to $175,000 with annual bonus potential in New York.

Qualifications

• Several years of experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) using multiple test frameworks.
• Excellent understanding of automation testing approaches and AI-assisted outcomes.
• Proficiency in JVM languages and/or TypeScript.
• Strong coding skills with focus on safe deployment practices.
• Experience with CI/CD, containerization and observability.

Responsibilities

• Lead engagements with development teams to improve release cadence and security.
• Develop and run tests locally and in CI pipelines; automate deployments.
• Integrate test data and apply data masking where needed.
• Upgrade runtimes, containerize apps, and keep dependencies current.
• Promote best practices in source control and branch management.
• Enhance observability, logging, and exception handling.

Skills

TDD

Automation testing

JVM languages

TypeScript

CI/CD

Docker

OpenShift

Ansible

Gradle

Maven

Tools

Docker

OpenShift

Gradle

Maven

Liquibase

Ansible

Job description

Who We Are: We are a fast growing business and technology consultant company co-founded in 2019. We offer a custom-tailored, white-glove engineering service fit for our clients, because a digital transformation is more than just technology. With a successful track record of being a preferred vendor for Fortune 500 companies and as a trusted partner for some of the industry’s leading companies, our global talent has helped many clients achieve their goals.

The 3 G’s of RE:

“Get Shit Done.”

“Get Over Shit.”

“Give a Shit.”

Lead Software Reliability Engineer

We are seeking experienced, hands‑on Software Reliability Engineers to act as evangelists for continuous integration, testing, and safe, automated deployments. This is a practical DevOps and SRE role for practitioners who lead by example to make change safe and easy for development teams. The position is roughly 70% coding and configuration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct targeted engagements with development teams facing challengesgettingto safe and rapid releasecadence, or struggling with vulnerability resolution.
• Wrapping the application in a suite of well‑designed tests, most of which can run locally, including smoke tests to be run as part of the deployment process.
• Sourcing and integrating appropriatetest data,implementingdata masking in lowerenvironments
• Upgrading to supported runtimes (generally Java or NPM).
• Containerizing applications where feasible.
• Upgrading open‑source libraries to their latest availablemajorversions (e.g., migrating from Spring 2).
• Upgrading to the latest version of all dependencies, whether installed software, libraries, internal code, base images or operating system. Implementing processes that allow us seamlessly to stay current
• Implementing continuous library updates using Renovate.
• Introducing best practice source controland branch management
• Improving code review processes
• Ensuringbest practice security patterns,secrets management, authenticationand authorisation
• Simplifying and automating application deployment processes, including automated database changes with Liquibase and installed software with Ansible.
• Introducing standard observability patterns.
• Overhauling exception handling and logging.

Required Qualifications:

• Several years of experience with Test‑Driven Development (TDD) using multiple test frameworks.
• Really excellent understanding of thedifferent approachesto automation testing and an ability to choose the best approachand drive outcomes with AI support
• Proficiency in JVM languages and/or TypeScript.
• Highest quality coding skills
• An excellent understanding of safe practices for critical systems, including deployment architectureandobservability
• At home with multiple continuous integration and deployment systems
• Excellent understanding of secure coding practices
• Competent with Docker and Openshift
• Actively embracing AI coding
• Comfortable with build automation tools such as Gradle, Maven, andnpm.
• Competent with (RedHat ) Linux
• Spring framework skills are advantageous.
• Ansible skills are advantageous

The base salary range for this position is $145,000.00 – $175,000.00 annually. This range represents the good‑faith minimum and maximum salary the Company believes it would pay for this role at the time of this posting.
Actual compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, geographic location, internal equity, and business needs.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.