What are the responsibilities and job description for the Site Reliability Engineer position at Amtex Systems Inc?
Role:-Site Reliability Engineer
Location:-Ashburn, VA-4 Days onsite
Duration:-1 year Contract to hire
The environment includes Docker/Docker Swarm, PostgreSQL, and Java/Spring Boot applications.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain and improve production system reliability, availability, and performance across Linux servers and application infrastructure.
- Lead complex production incident investigations, troubleshooting issues across Linux, Docker, PostgreSQL, networking, and Java/Spring Boot applications.
- Support Docker-based deployments, including container configuration, service networking, resource utilization, and operational troubleshooting.
- Use logs, metrics, distributed traces, and JVM diagnostics to identify application and infrastructure performance issues.
- Implement and maintain monitoring, dashboards, and alerts using New Relic or comparable observability platforms.
- Lead root cause analysis and drive permanent corrective actions to reduce recurring incidents and improve system reliability.
- Develop and maintain Terraform infrastructure code, automation scripts, and operational tools using Bash, Python, or similar languages.
- Use AI coding agents such as Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, or equivalent tools for scripting, troubleshooting, code analysis, and infrastructure automation.
- Troubleshoot PostgreSQL issues involving queries, connection pools, database connectivity, locking, and performance.
- Support hybrid on-premises/AWS infrastructure, deployment processes, configuration management, and rollback procedures.
- Contribute to capacity planning, disaster recovery, system resilience, runbooks, and operational documentation.
Required Qualifications
- 5 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Linux systems engineering, or production infrastructure operations.
- Strong hands-on Linux administration and production troubleshooting experience.
- Production experience supporting Docker-based applications.
- Working knowledge of PostgreSQL and SQL troubleshooting.
- Experience troubleshooting Java applications and understanding JVM fundamentals.
- Hands-on Terraform experience.
- Experience with New Relic or a comparable monitoring/APM platform.
- Proficiency with Bash, Python, or similar scripting languages.
- Practical experience using AI-assisted coding or engineering tools for automation, troubleshooting, or infrastructure work.
- Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, and network troubleshooting.
- Experience leading production incident investigations and implementing root-cause fixes.