SRE Developer Lead

This role is for an "SRE Developer Lead" on a contract basis, offering a competitive pay rate. Key requirements include experience in eCommerce or distributed systems, strong skills in Terraform and Ansible, and expertise in Java, Kafka, and SQL performance optimization.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
💰 - Day rate
Unknown
Unknown
🗓️ - Date discovered
January 15, 2025
🕒 - Project duration
Unknown
🏝️ - Location type
Unknown
📄 - Contract type
Unknown
🔒 - Security clearance
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📍 - Location detailed
Houston, TX
🧠 - Skills detailed
#Leadership #Spring Boot #SQL (Structured Query Language) #Observability #Terraform #Microservices #Firewalls #Database Performance #Monitoring #SAP #Kafka (Apache Kafka) #Databases #NoSQL #Storage #"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #Java #Automation #Ansible
Role description
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Key Responsibilities:
• Technical Leadership: Build and mentor a team of SREs; set goals, conduct reviews, and drive SRE best practices.
• System Reliability: Oversee the design and maintenance of high-availability systems; lead performance monitoring and issue resolution.
• Automation & CI/CD: Lead development of automation scripts and enhance CI/CD pipelines using tools like Terraform, Ansible, and others
• Observability: Deploy and manage tools (e.g., New Relic) for system monitoring; develop dashboards and alerts
• Incident Management: Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and refine incident response processes
• Performance Optimization: Provide strategic insights to enhance application and database performance (Java, Kafka, SQL)

Qualifications:
• Proven experience managing SRE or related teams in an eCommerce or highly distributed systems environment.
• Strong skills in automation tools (Terraform, Ansible) and observability solutions (New Relic), with an emphasis on managing large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience working with SAP modules in conjunction with custom applications or microservices architectures.
• Good understanding of storage technologies (SAN/NAS), network infrastructure (load balancers, firewalls), and their impact on system performance in high-throughput environments.
• Background in optimizing performance for Java-based applications, Spring Boot services, Kafka message brokers, SQL/NoSQL databases, and middleware components.
• Familiarity with middleware technologies such as Kafka in distributed environments.
• Excellent leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills with experience working cross-functionally between development teams, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders.