MDKJR Open Practice Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - DevOps

MDKJR Open Practice Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - DevOps Akron, OH

Posted:

09/04/2026

Employment Type:

Full Time

Job Number:

3575941

Remote Friendly:

Not Allow

Job Description Emerald Resource Group Sr DevOps Engineer Salary:

Up to 110k for the right background

Hybrid:

In Ritchfield, Ohio Only US Citizens will be considered About the Role We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to scale our high velocity payments platform and manage transactions within our multi-tenant AWS environment. You will dive into our established architecture to improve automation and system resiliency while solving live production challenges. This role requires a practical engineer to optimize processing engines and maintain compliance as our merchant volume grows. Responsibilities Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of a multi-tenant production system Scale and operate AWS-based infrastructure supporting a Java web application Monitor and troubleshoot issues across application, database, cache, and data warehouse layers Improve observability through metrics, logging, and alerting Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response and root cause analysis Identify performance bottlenecks and scaling limits in a shared-tenant environment Automate operational tasks and reduce toil where it matters most Work within existing frameworks and tooling to make systems safer and more scalable Partner with developers to improve deployments, capacity planning, and failure handling Implement automated load and fuzz testing Define key service level objectives (SLO) Technologies You'll Work With AWS (EC2, ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, Redshift, and related services) Java-based web applications MySQL (performance tuning, scaling, reliability) Amazon ElastiCache (Redis/Memcached) Amazon Redshift Monitoring and alerting tools (Graphite, Grafana, Cloudwatch) Qualifications 3+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or production operations roles Strong understanding of AWS infrastructure and cloud-native scaling patterns Experience supporting Java applications in production Solid knowledge of MySQL performance, replication, and scaling strategies Experience operating cache layers and data stores at scale Understanding of multi-tenant architectures, including isolation, noisy-neighbor issues, and capacity planning Strong Linux fundamentals and troubleshooting skills Ability to stay calm, think clearly, and prioritize during incidents