SRE/DevOps Engineer

Location

Hybrid (Westlake, TX preferred; Austin, TX secondary)

• Remote: Tuesdays and Fridays
• Candidate will work remotely until a seat becomes available onsite

Interview

2 rounds

Day-to-Day

• Administer, support, monitor, and deploy enterprise systems
• Develop automation scripts to improve operational efficiency
• Build application monitoring dashboards and alerting solutions
• Proactively identify and resolve infrastructure and application issues
• Support Linux and Windows server environments
• Troubleshoot networking, database, and system performance issues
• Collaborate with teams to improve system reliability and operational processes
• Participate in SDLC practices and process improvement initiatives
• Drive issue resolution within a complex trading ecosystem

Job Description

Insight Global is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)/DevOps for a top financial services client. This candidate will be responsible for supporting and maintaining enterprise-level infrastructure within a large-scale, high-availability environment. The ideal candidate will leverage strong systems administration, automation, monitoring, and troubleshooting skills to ensure platform reliability and performance. This role requires hands-on experience across Windows and Linux environments, monitoring tools, scripting languages, and networking technologies. The candidate will proactively build monitoring solutions, automate operational processes, and investigate complex issues across a distributed trading ecosystem while maintaining a strong sense of ownership and customer focus.

Must-Haves

• 6-8 years of experience with enterprise level administration and support
• 6-8 years of experience in writing automation scripts, building application dashboards for proactive monitoring, setting up alerts for early determination of the issues in Grafana, Influx, Datadog, Moog, ThousandEyes etc..
• 6-8 years of experience practicing SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) practice, process improvements
• Hands on enterprise systems administration, monitoring, and deployment activities
• Experience with Windows 2016, 2019, 2022 hosted via Virtual Machine
• Knowledge of IP networking including DNS, DHCP, firewalls, IP routing, etc.
• Familiarity with large scale distributed systems and high-availability architectures
• Linux and Windows system administration, troubleshooting, and tuning
• Development experience in one or more or programming languages such as .Net, C#, Powershell, Yaml, Java, Python, Bash
• Knowledge of one or more of SQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Postgres databases
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline

Plusses

• Financial services industry experience