Lead Site Reliability Engineer

We are looking for a hands-on Lead Site Reliability Engineer to maintain, enhance, and support a Java backend services ecosystem alongside another SRE and a backend engineering team. You will strengthen reliability, observability, and incident response practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide on-call support for Java backend identity services during business hours

• Troubleshoot complex distributed-system issues using logs and telemetry to identify root causes

• Deploy patches to address issues in cloud infrastructure

• Improve reliability posture for key backend services through tangible changes

• Build metrics and dashboards to quickly assess overall platform health

• Monitor SLOs across services and submit code changes to improve SLOs as errors occur

• Create and refine runbooks for backend services to standardize operations and response

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps for distributed systems

• 5+ years of experience with Amazon Web Services in production environments

• 3+ years of experience with Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon ElastiCache in production

• Leadership experience guiding on-call practices and operational improvements

• Strong project execution skills delivering reliability and observability enhancements

• Strong troubleshooting skills using logs and telemetry to find root causes

• Strong communication skills for clear and concise written incident updates

• Fast learning ability to absorb information quickly and apply it during on-call

• Upper-Intermediate English proficiency (B2)

Nice to have

• Kubernetes

• Terraform

• Apache Kafka

• Grafana

• New Relic

We offer

• International projects with top brands

• Work with global teams of highly skilled, diverse peers

• Healthcare benefits

• Employee financial programs

• Paid time off and sick leave

• Upskilling, reskilling and certification courses

• Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning library and 22,000+ courses

• Global career opportunities

• Volunteer and community involvement opportunities

• EPAM Employee Groups

• Award-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and LinkedIn