Site Reliability Engineer

Own and improve the production environment for trading systems and exchange connectivity, focusing on performance, reliability, operability, monitoring, troubleshooting, tooling, operational risk, and technical operations mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Own the production environment
• Monitor and troubleshoot large-scale trading systems and exchange connectivity
• Build and maintain the DevOps toolkit
• Improve scalability and system performance using firm-wide metrics
• Analyze and troubleshoot complex system problems
• Coordinate changes and manage incidents
• Communicate technology changes with traders
• Reconcile trades and position breaks
• Assess operational risk of production changes
• Define and document processes and procedures
• Provide mentorship and cross-training

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• At least 5+ years of relevant IT operations experience
• At least 3+ years of experience with Python and shell scripting
• Familiarity with C++
• Linux operating system knowledge
• Knowledge of network and system configuration
• Knowledge of kernel internals, scheduling, and performance tuning
• Networking knowledge including routing, multicast, LLDP, VLAN tagging, and Ethernet
• Ability to handle shared operational and periodic on-call duties
• Reliable and predictable availability