Highlights
This role requires deep technical understanding across the entire application stack, the ability to read and reason about code, and the capability to provide data-backed answers to both engineering teams and business stakeholders. We are seeking an experienced engineer who can analyze, diagnose, and optimize performance and reliability of large-scale distributed systems.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Sylmar, CA |
| Industry | Computer Software |
| Company Size | 20 to 49 employees |
| Year Founded | 2014 |
| Website | http://www.tekfortune.com/ |
Description
Position: Site Reliability Engineer-10+ Year exp required
Location : Sylmar CA
Technical Skills
Location : Sylmar CA
- Job Summary
- We are seeking an experienced engineer who can analyze, diagnose, and optimize performance and reliability of large-scale distributed systems. This role requires deep technical understanding across the entire application stack, the ability to read and reason about code, and the capability to provide data-backed answers to both engineering teams and business stakeholders.
- This role goes beyond traditional operations or DevOps. The successful candidate will think like a software engineer, act like a systems engineer, and operate with a production-first mindset.
- Key Responsibilities
- Performance & Reliability Engineering
- Analyze and resolve performance issues such as high latency, slow login, throughput degradation, and system instability.
- Perform deep, end-to-end investigations across the full stack including:
- Load balancers and traffic routing
- Web server and application runtime configurations
- Middleware and messaging systems
- Database performance (queries, indexing, pooling)
- Kubernetes clusters (pods, resources, scaling behavior)
- Linux OS tuning (CPU, memory, I/O, ulimits, networking)
- Identify root causes and propose clear, actionable engineering solutions.
- Distributed Systems Design
- Design, review, and influence high-performance, highly-available distributed architectures.
- Evaluate trade-offs related to scalability, latency, fault tolerance, and cost.
- Partner with development teams early to prevent reliability and performance issues before production.
- Capacity Planning & Scalability
- Assess system readiness for growth scenarios such as:
- We plan to onboard 10,000 users in 6 months can the system support it?
- Perform capacity and scale analysis for:
- Application tiers
- Databases
- Messaging systems
- Kubernetes compute and storage
- Provide evidence-based recommendations supported by metrics, benchmarks, and production data.
- Engineering Collaboration
- Work closely with software engineering teams to:
- Review performance-critical code paths
- Propose improvements at code, configuration, or infrastructure level
- Improve system observability (metrics, logs, traces)
- Communicate complex technical findings clearly to both engineers and business stakeholders.
- Required Technical Skills
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and performance engineering
- Ability to read, analyze, and troubleshoot Java code
- Hands-on experience with:
- Kubernetes (resource management, scaling, container behavior)
- Linux internals and tuning
- PostgreSQL (queries, indexing, performance optimization)
- Proven experience building or operating high-availability, high-throughput systems
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven approach
- Nice to Have
- Experience with Azure cloud services
- Messaging systems such as ActiveMQ
- Load testing and benchmarking experience
- Background in roles such as SRE, Performance Engineering, Platform Engineering
Technical Skills
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure.
- Strong scripting skills (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar).
- Experience with deployment pipelines, automation, and monitoring tools.
- Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking, and application operations.
- Practical experience working with Large Language Models (LLMs).
- Familiarity with applying LLMs to engineering or operational workflows is required.
- Strong desire to learn and deeply understand complex systems.
- Self-starter with the ability to take ownership and drive initiatives independently.
- Demonstrates leadership, accountability, and problem-solving mindset.
About Company
Tekfortune is a software solutions company providing project development and staff augmentation services to companies in various industries including Healthcare, Banking, Finance, Telecommunication and Aviation.
Tekfortune Inc delivers solutions to a wide variety of organizations of various sizes and industries. Our clients include mid-market to Fortune 1000 companies spanning across industries such as: Insurance, Financial, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Retail and many others.
In Tekfortune Inc, we are offering selection of services and solutions at very reasonable rates. With years of experience in the placement and recruitment Industry and over time we have acquired the knowledge essential to comprehend the exact need and dependence on customers. Therefore we provide the customers the best and also the brightest candidates for vacancies. Moreover, by understanding the working interest of customers who is able to place them within the companies where they are able to get maximum opportunity for professional growth.
Tekfortune Inc has a strong emphasis on quality. Its goal would be to achieve client satisfaction by looking into making deliveries satisfaction of customer's business needs. Our ability to quickly identify and effectively employ proven fundamental principles, techniques and resources yields highly desirable results for our clients.
We understand that each industry and organization share a level of uniqueness that requires a tailored approach in order to deliver specific solutions. Such factors as client culture, industry regulations, organizational maturity, financial health and many more items may impact our approach to delivering client solutions.
Having served a wide variety of clients has provided Tekfortune the ability to build subject matter expertise across numerous industries. Our industry expertise combined with our specialized knowledge of Business Process Improvement, Requirements Management and Program & Project Management provides a powerful combination and a tremendous value to our clients.
We are run by a group of industry experts who have decades of experience in delivering custom solutions to our clients.
Tekfortune Inc delivers solutions to a wide variety of organizations of various sizes and industries. Our clients include mid-market to Fortune 1000 companies spanning across industries such as: Insurance, Financial, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Retail and many others.
In Tekfortune Inc, we are offering selection of services and solutions at very reasonable rates. With years of experience in the placement and recruitment Industry and over time we have acquired the knowledge essential to comprehend the exact need and dependence on customers. Therefore we provide the customers the best and also the brightest candidates for vacancies. Moreover, by understanding the working interest of customers who is able to place them within the companies where they are able to get maximum opportunity for professional growth.
Tekfortune Inc has a strong emphasis on quality. Its goal would be to achieve client satisfaction by looking into making deliveries satisfaction of customer's business needs. Our ability to quickly identify and effectively employ proven fundamental principles, techniques and resources yields highly desirable results for our clients.
We understand that each industry and organization share a level of uniqueness that requires a tailored approach in order to deliver specific solutions. Such factors as client culture, industry regulations, organizational maturity, financial health and many more items may impact our approach to delivering client solutions.
Having served a wide variety of clients has provided Tekfortune the ability to build subject matter expertise across numerous industries. Our industry expertise combined with our specialized knowledge of Business Process Improvement, Requirements Management and Program & Project Management provides a powerful combination and a tremendous value to our clients.
We are run by a group of industry experts who have decades of experience in delivering custom solutions to our clients.