Radley James
Site Reliability Engineer
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A global leading quantitative trading firm is looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help build, operate, and continuously improve the infrastructure that powers the electronic trading platform. You'll work closely with software engineers, quantitative researchers, and traders to ensure the systems remain reliable, scalable, secure, and performant in a fast-paced, low-latency environment.
This role combines software engineering with infrastructure, automation, and operational excellence. You'll play a key role in reducing operational risk, improving system resilience, and enabling rapid delivery of new capabilities.
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and maintain highly available production infrastructure.
- Improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of trading and supporting systems.
- Develop automation to eliminate manual operational tasks.
- Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability platforms.
- Lead incident response, troubleshooting, and post-incident reviews.
- Partner with development teams to improve application reliability throughout the software lifecycle.
- Drive infrastructure-as-code and configuration management best practices.
- Implement capacity planning, performance testing, and disaster recovery processes.
- Champion operational excellence through documentation, automation, and continuous improvement.
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- Strong experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Infrastructure Engineer.
- Excellent Linux systems administration skills.
- Strong scripting or programming experience in Python, Go, or similar.
- Experience with Kubernetes.
- Experience with cloud platforms and/or on-premise infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, load balancing).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, or similar).
- Experience with monitoring and observability.
- Strong troubleshooting skills with a methodical approach to solving complex production issues.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
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