Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Java Spring Boot REST APIs & Automation

Key Responsibilities:

- Automation and Reducing Toil: SREs write code and build tools to automate repetitive manual tasks (known as "toil") aiming to spend roughly 50% of their time on software and engineering projects.

- Incident Response and Management: They act as first-line responders for critical emergencies handle on-call rotations troubleshoot failures and restore service.

- SLOs SLAs and Error Budgets: They define Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) managing "error budgets" to balance release speed with system stability.

- Monitoring and Observability: They set up logging metrics and alerting systems (using tools like Prometheus Grafana or PagerDuty) to detect problems before they impact users.

- Post-Incident Reviews: They conduct root cause analysis (postmortems) to ensure failures do not repeat.

- Capacity Planning: They analyze traffic and usage patterns to forecast future infrastructure and hardware needs.

- Cross-Team Collaboration: They work alongside software developers to design resilient architectures and make applications more reliable by design.

Required Skills:

Primary Qualifications

- Demonstrated experience developing software in Java or a comparable object-oriented language.

- Working knowledge of REST APIs HTTP methods JSON and common API design principles.





- Familiarity with Spring Boot or another contemporary backend framework.

- Experience writing automated unit tests and debugging application failures.

- Familiarity with Git and pull-request-based development.

- Ability to read technical documentation investigate unfamiliar code and explain findings clearly.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills.

- Willingness to work collaboratively with developers testers analysts and stakeholders.

Additional Preferred Qualifications

- Guidewire and Commercial Insurance: Guidewire PolicyCenter Gosu Guidewire Cloud APIs commercial property and casualty insurance underwriting policy administration or workflow automation.

- API Design Integration and Security: OpenAPI/Swagger JSON Schema Apigee or another API gateway API Developer Portal OAuth 2.0 JWT mTLS or certificate-based security.

- Event and Data Integration: Kafka Schema Registry event-driven architecture asynchronous processing PostgreSQL Liquibase or database migration tooling.

- Cloud Delivery and Engineering Platforms: GitHub Actions Harness AWS Kubernetes HashiCorp Vault infrastructure as code or comparable CI/CD and cloud technologies.

- Automated Testing and Partner Integration: Postman JUnit Mockito Playwright or experience integrating multiple systems and external partners.

Required Skills:

Salesforce

📌 Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Java, Spring Boot & Guidewire (GW)
🏢 Astra North Infoteck
📍 Toronto