Lucera Financial Infrastructures
Site Reliability Engineer
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Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / DevOps Engineer, Belfast NI
Lucera, a BGC Group Company
About Lucera
Lucera is BGC Group's financial infrastructure and connectivity business. Built specifically for electronic trading environments, Lucera provides banks, brokers, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, and market makers with secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure that supports mission-critical trading and market data workloads. Lucera is the creator of LumeFX, an advanced FX trading platform that combines liquidity aggregation, distributed matching technology, and intelligent smart order routing to optimize execution quality and trading efficiency.
The Role
We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / DevOps Engineer to join our growing engineering organization. This role is responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, automation, and operational excellence of critical production systems supporting global trading infrastructure and financial technology platforms.
You will work closely with software engineers, infrastructure teams, network specialists, and production support teams to build resilient systems, automate operational processes, improve observability, and drive platform reliability at scale.
This is an opportunity to work in a highly demanding, performance-sensitive environment where uptime, latency, automation, and operational excellence are paramount.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable, and resilient production infrastructure.
- Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions to automate provisioning and configuration management.
- Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable and efficient software delivery.
- Manage and support containerized workloads across modern orchestration platforms.
- Build and improve monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions to ensure rapid detection and resolution of issues.
- Automate operational workflows, deployment processes, and routine administrative tasks.
- Troubleshoot complex production incidents across infrastructure, applications, networking, and distributed systems.
- Collaborate with development teams to improve system reliability, performance, and operational readiness.
- Participate in incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Contribute to disaster recovery, business continuity, and platform resilience strategies.
- Maintain operational standards, documentation, and best practices across the environment.
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Required Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.
- Experience supporting container orchestration platforms including Kubernetes, Nomad, or OpenShift.
- Proven track record designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong Linux systems administration expertise and scripting experience (Bash, Shell, Python, or similar).
- Experience with observability and monitoring platforms, including Grafana, InfluxDB, and related tooling.
- Experience automating deployments, infrastructure management, and operational processes.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills within complex distributed systems.
- Experience using Git and modern source control workflows.
- Solid understanding of high availability, fault tolerance, resilience engineering, and disaster recovery principles.
- Experience supporting business-critical production environments with demanding uptime requirements.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering and operations teams.
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Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working within financial services, capital markets, trading technology, or low-latency environments.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms and hybrid infrastructure architectures.
- Experience supporting high-performance computing (HPC) environments.
- Familiarity with network infrastructure, performance engineering, and latency-sensitive applications.
- Understanding of SRE principles, Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets.
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