Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Equity Trading Platform Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Location: Jersey City, NJ Employment Type: Contract (W2 or 1099) Rate: $60/hr Experience Required: 5+ Years Role Overview We are seeking a highly motivated Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join the Equity Trading Platform Engineering team, supporting mission-critical Equity Trading applications and Fidessa OMS/EMS workflows used by internal business users and external clients. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in production support, FIX Protocol, Linux/Unix, monitoring, automation, CI/CD, cloud technologies, and Capital Markets , with the ability to troubleshoot complex production issues and improve platform reliability. Key Responsibilities 1. Production Support Provide production support for Equity Trading platforms and Fidessa OMS/EMS. Support day-to-day trading activities, including: Order Routing FIX Connectivity Client Onboarding DMA Algorithmic Trading Drop-Copy Flows Troubleshoot application, infrastructure, and trading workflow issues. 2. Trading Platform Support Support: Batch Processing Post-Trade Workflows Production Checkouts Production Validations Ensure platform stability, performance, and availability. 3. Monitoring & Reliability Build and maintain monitoring solutions across: Applications Infrastructure Databases Messaging Platforms Trading Systems Analyze system metrics for: Performance Tuning Capacity Planning Fault Isolation Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Permanent Remediation Improve production stability through operational excellence. 5. Automation & DevOps Python Bash PowerShell SQL Perl Support CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation. Improve operational efficiency by reducing manual tasks. 6. Documentation Create and maintain: Runbooks Troubleshooting Guides FAQs Production Checkout Procedures Support Documentation Work closely with: Traders Business Users Development Teams QA Infrastructure Middle Office Global Support Teams Support production releases and global on-call rotations. Required Qualifications Experience 5+ years of Site Reliability Engineering or Production Support experience. Experience supporting Front Office Trading platforms. Strong Capital Markets domain knowledge. Trading & Capital Markets Equity Trading FIX Protocol Order Routing Client Connectivity Trade Lifecycle Post-Trade Processing DMA Algorithmic Trading Operating Systems Unix Windows Server Programming & Automation Python Bash Shell Scripting PowerShell SQL Perl Monitoring & Observability Splunk Grafana ELK Stack OpenTelemetry AWS CloudWatch Databases Microsoft SQL Server MySQL Messaging Technologies IBM MQ Kafka ActiveMQ AWS SQS/SNS Networking TCP/IP UDP Network Troubleshooting Firewall Flows DevOps & CI/CD Jenkins Bamboo Bitbucket Git GitHub Actions JFrog Terraform Ansible ArgoCD Jira Confluence ServiceNow AWS Docker OpenShift Lens Preferred Qualifications Experience supporting Front Office Equity Trading platforms. Strong knowledge of Capital Markets workflows. Experience with highly available production environments. Experience implementing SRE best practices. Experience working in global 24x7 production support teams. #J-18808-Ljbffr