SRE - Real-Time Trading Systems (Relocation)

Mode Talent Group Australia; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Mode Talent Group Australia partners with a Tier One proprietary trading firm in Sydney to hire an SRE who will own the production trading environment. This hands-on role sits close to the trading desk and is responsible for performance, reliability and operability of large-scale trading systems and exchange connectivity.

You will monitor and troubleshoot live systems, and build and maintain the operational toolkit around them: configuration management, process management, deployment,

Qualifications

• 5+ years in an operations-focused engineering role such as SRE, DevOps, Linux Systems Engineering or Network Engineering.
• Strong Python and shell scripting, with at least 3 years of hands-on use.
• Deep Linux knowledge, including kernel internals, scheduling, network and system configuration, and performance tuning.
• Solid networking fundamentals: routing, multicast, VLAN tagging, LLDP and Ethernet.
• C++ familiarity is useful but not required.

Responsibilities

• Own production systems end to end for large-scale trading environments.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and optimize live trading systems and exchange connectivity.
• Build and maintain the operational toolkit (configuration management, deployment, monitoring, data collection).
• Coordinate production changes with traders, risk management, and operations teams; manage incidents in real time.
• Mentor and cross-train other SREs on the team; define how production is run.

Skills

SRE experience

DevOps

Linux systems engineering

Network engineering

Python

Shell scripting

Linux kernel internals

Networking fundamentals

C++ familiarity

Job description

Mode Talent Group Australia partners with a Tier One proprietary trading firm in Sydney to hire an SRE who will own the production trading environment. This hands-on role sits close to the trading desk and is responsible for performance, reliability and operability of large-scale trading systems and exchange connectivity.

You will monitor and troubleshoot live systems, and build and maintain the operational toolkit around them: configuration management, process management, deployment,