Site Reliability Engineer

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$150,000.00/yr - $200,000.00/yr

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Recruitment Consultant @ Selby Jennings | Financial Technology

We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and assist with the design, development, and administration of our trading and research systems. This role is a unique blend of software engineering and system administration that encourages significant interaction with traders, developers, and researchers. The successful candidate will be proactive, have a strong sense of ownership, and be driven to provide creative technical solutions to business problems.

Salary: $150,000 - $200,000 base salary with discretionary bonus.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining highly automated, scalable, and resilient infrastructure in support of our real-time trading operations
• Building solutions to automate and improve operational reliability and efficiency
• Developing and maintaining binary and text-based ETL pipelines
• Interacting with and administering SQL and NoSQL databases both locally and in the cloud
• Developing and maintaining various REST APIs and assisting with their integration into other projects
• Participating in the design and implementation of green-field on-premises container orchestration platform
• Creating integrations with various cloud platforms and on-premises data systems
• Assisting the larger infrastructure team to develop system and network automations that make the team more efficient
• Collaborating with various stakeholders to develop automated, customizable, and proactive monitoring and reporting systems
• Participating in 2nd line support; responding to incidents quickly and appropriately to facilitate diagnosis and resolution
• Staying current with the latest technology trends in the industry; propose, evaluate, and deploy innovative solutions
• Implementing systems adhering to firm-wide security policies and industry best practices

Skills and Experience:

• 3+ years of experience in Systems, Network, SRE, or DevOps engineering
• Strong programming experience in Python and shell scripting with a version control system such as Git required
• Strong command of infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Salt Project, Puppet, and related technologies
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Jenkins, Bamboo, GitHub actions, Gitlab CI/CD, ArgoCD, Flux)
• Expertise in cloud technology (AWS and GCP experience preferred)
• Experience with containerization, both on-premises (e.g., Kubernetes) and in the public cloud (e.g., Google GKE, Amazon EKS)
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills and documentation/knowledge management skills

This role must sit in the firms Chicago office.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

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