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Lead SRE platform engineer
PeopleNTech LLC
🇺🇸 United States
On-site
Staff / Principal
7 months ago
- Performance Testing
- Swift
- MongoDB
- Spring Boot
- Redis
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- RTP
7 months ago
In This Role, you will
Platform & Reliability Engineering
- Embed SRE and production engineering principles into Payments Modernization from design through early life support
- Define and validate non-functional requirements (NFRs) covering resilience, scalability, observability, recovery, and operability
- Drive replay, retry, and exception-handling validation for event-driven payment flows
- Lead capacity and performance testing, including volume growth and peak event scenarios (e.g. FedNow, CHIPS, SWIFT)
- Own Permit-to-Operate readiness across environments (NFR Testing)
- Define cutover, shadow support, and early life support models
- Ensure runbooks, support procedures, on-call readiness, and escalation paths are production-grade before go-live
- Partner with Change Assurance to apply risk-based release controls, canary/blue-green strategies, and rollback automation
Observability & Stability
- Implement end-to-end observability across Kafka, MongoDB, API layers, and downstream payment components
- Define and monitor SLOs, error budgets, and golden signals
- Reduce alert noise through signal design, correlation, and automation
- Analyze early defects and exception patterns (ACK/NACKs, business errors) to drive stabilization
- Design and execute controlled failure testing (chaos engineering) to validate recovery patterns and blast radius
- Lead blameless RCAs, ensuring corrective actions are owned and recurrence is prevented
- Drive continuous service improvement (CSI) initiatives, including automation, resilience uplift, and technical debt reduction
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of Systems Engineering, Technology Architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- 2+ years of application support experience
- 2+ years of experience in Application Frameworks such as Spring Boot, Spring WebFlux
- 2+ years of Data Stores & Caching experience with MongoDB, Redis
- 2+ years of Platform experience with Kubernetes / container orchestration
- 2+ years of CI/CD & Automation experience Progressive delivery, automated rollback, reliability-as-code concepts
Desired Qualifications:
- 2+ years Resilience: Resilience4J, retry/replay patterns
- 2+ years Testing & Resilience Validation: BlazeMeter, Chaos Monkey
- 2+ years Observability: Distributed tracing, metrics, logging, SLO tooling
- Strong experience in SRE, Production Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Service Transition within a complex technology or financial services environment
- Demonstrated ability to productionize new platforms, not just support them
- Solid understanding of high-value payment systems (Wires, RTP, SWIFT, CHIPS, FedNow) and their operational risk profile
- Experience working with event-driven, distributed architectures
- Proven ability to partner with engineering teams while representing the production and operational lens
- Comfortable operating in early-stage, ambiguous transformation environments
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical risk to senior stakeholders
Lead SRE platform engineer · PeopleNTech LLC