Site Reliability Engineer

 

In this role, you will be part of a high-impact team responsible for implementing and maintaining a global, production-grade orchestration layer that supports our most critical applications. You’ll work in close collaboration with engineering, infrastructure, and security teams to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our platform. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to take full ownership and deliver robust, scalable solutions in a fast-paced environment.

 

What you will do:

• Operate and manage on-prem Kubernetes clusters, including upgrades, scaling, and monitoring
• Automate infrastructure tasks using CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, Helm, Ansible)
• Continuously monitor and improve system reliability, performance, and availability
• Take part in incident response, troubleshooting, and post-mortem analysis
• Collaborate on infrastructure planning, architecture design, and security reviews

 

What you need to succeed:

• 5+ years of experience operating and troubleshooting Kubernetes, particularly in on-prem environments
• 2+ years of experience writing production-grade Python code
• Understanding of the Linux systems administration
• Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK
• Experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., GitLab CI, ArgoCD)
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code and automation tools (Terraform, Helm, Ansible)
• Solid understanding of networking, load balancing, and container security practices
• Familiarity with SRE principles, including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
• A high sense of ownership, initiative, and a collaborative mindset
• A keen interest in performance optimization and scalable system design

 

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