Senior SRE: Kubernetes, Java & Observability

Creative Solutions Services, LLC; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA’s client is seeking an experienced Technology Consultant – Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to enhance production reliability for enterprise applications. You will work with application engineering, DevOps, cloud, and infrastructure teams to boost availability, scalability, performance, and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities include troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments, implementing observability solutions, supporting Java/Spring Boot microservices, and driving automation to

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Production Engineering/Support.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerized application environments.
• 4+ years of experience with Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, and REST APIs.
• 3+ years of experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or ELK.

Responsibilities

• Manage and support business-critical applications running on Kubernetes and containerized platforms.
• Monitor application and platform health and proactively identify reliability, availability, and performance issues.
• Troubleshoot Kubernetes deployments, pods, services, networking, configurations, and application issues.
• Implement and enhance observability solutions covering metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting.
• Support and troubleshoot Java/Spring Boot and Microservices-based applications.
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) for critical production incidents and implement permanent corrective actions.
• Define and monitor SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, Error Budgets, and other reliability metrics.
• Automate repetitive operational activities and identify opportunities to reduce operational TOIL.
• Participate in incident, problem, change, and production release management activities.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve application resilience, performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and improve application deployment and release processes.
• Participate in capacity planning, performance tuning, disaster recovery, and production readiness reviews.
• Develop and maintain operational runbooks, troubleshooting procedures, and technical documentation.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

DevOps

Automation

Production Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

REST APIs

Splunk

Dynatrace

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

ELK

Helm

AWS

Azure

GCP

Linux

Shell scripting

Kafka

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Job description

NTT DATA’s client is seeking an experienced Technology Consultant – Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to enhance production reliability for enterprise applications. You will work with application engineering, DevOps, cloud, and infrastructure teams to boost availability, scalability, performance, and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities include troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments, implementing observability solutions, supporting Java/Spring Boot microservices, and driving automation to