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W2//SRE Platform Engineer

VensIT CorpCharlotte, NC🇺🇸United States

Quick overview

SeniorityMid Senior
Work modeOn Site
LocationCharlotte, NC, United States
MongoDBSpringSpring BootSwiftKafka

Job description

Position Title: SRE Platform Engineer
Location: Charlotte, NC – Day 1 Onsite, No Remote

Duration: Long term

1. 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, security, 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).

2. Service Transition & Operational Readiness

  • 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.

3. 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.

4. Chaos Engineering & Continuous Improvement

  • 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.

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