Site Reliability Engineer – Observability & Performance
Sanderson · Bristol
Job description
About the role
We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to lead observability and performance initiatives across Java applications, middleware and Linux infrastructure. The role will focus on monitoring, performance analysis and reliability engineering within a complex enterprise platform, initially on‑premise with a future AWS migration.
Key responsibilities
- Implement and enhance observability using Grafana across Java, middleware and Linux components.
- Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting and telemetry solutions.
- Perform JVM performance analysis, garbage‑collection tuning and thread investigation.
- Support messaging technologies such as ActiveMQ, Kafka and RabbitMQ.
- Administer Linux systems (CentOS/RHEL), including patching, package management and security remediation.
- Build deployment automation and configuration‑management pipelines.
- Create Bash and Python scripts to improve operational efficiency.
- Resolve production incidents and conduct root‑cause analysis.
Required profile
- Hands‑on experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform or Systems Engineering.
- Strong background in observability, monitoring and alerting.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot Java applications and JVM performance.
- Experience with messaging platforms (ActiveMQ, Kafka, RabbitMQ).
- Solid Linux administration skills (CentOS/RHEL).
- Expertise in automation and configuration‑management tools.
- Proficient scripting in Bash and Python.
- Experience supporting production systems and managing incidents.
Required skills
- Grafana
- Java
- JVM performance analysis
- ActiveMQ
- Kafka
- RabbitMQ
- Linux (CentOS/RHEL)
- Bash
- Python
- Deployment automation
- Configuration management
- Monitoring
- Alerting
- Telemetry
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Sanderson
Bristol