Senior Software Engineer/SRE - Managed Systems Engineering

Bloomberg; City Of London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology company in London is seeking a Senior Software Engineer/SRE to join their Managed Systems Engineering team. This role focuses on provisioning and maintaining a global production server fleet, utilizing open-source tools for automation and reliability. Candidates should have experience in object-oriented languages such as Python or Ruby, along with strong problem-solving skills in a Linux/Unix environment. The position offers an opportunity to contribute to the open-source community while working in a scalable, impactful environment.

Qualifications

• Experience working with an object-oriented programming language such as Python or Ruby.
• Expertise in diagnosing and solving problems in a Linux/Unix production environment.
• Robust understanding of large-scale systems architecture.

Responsibilities

• Provisioning, configuring, and maintaining the global production server fleet.
• Building and maintaining infrastructure services.
• Advising application teams on best practices for architecture.

Skills

Python

Ruby

Linux

Interpersonal communication

Collaboration

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Tools

Chef

SaltStack

Ansible

Jenkins

Airflow

Job description

Senior Software Engineer/SRE - Managed Systems Engineering

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Overview

The Bloomberg Terminal brings together real‑time data on every market, breaking news, in‑depth research, powerful analytics, communications tools and world‑class execution capabilities — in one fully integrated solution. The Managed Systems Engineering (MSE) group powers the mission‑critical infrastructure that supports our platform by building automation to provision, configure, and maintain Bloomberg’s global production server fleet throughout its lifecycle. MSE also builds and maintains vital infrastructure services such as configuration management, orchestration frameworks, DNS and monitoring infrastructure.

Location

London

Business Area

Engineering and CTO

Reference

10044798

Responsibilities

MSE uses an infrastructure‑as‑code approach with open‑source tools to ensure a scalable and reliable environment. The group’s responsibilities include:

• Provisioning, configuring, and maintaining the global production server fleet.
• Building and maintaining infrastructure services such as configuration management, orchestration frameworks, DNS, and monitoring.
• Advising application teams on best practices for architecture and addressing performance challenges.
• Driving automation and reliability initiatives across tens of thousands of hosts.
• Contributing to the open‑source community and building tools for virtualized and containerized infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Experience working with an object‑oriented programming language such as Python or Ruby.
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Expertise in diagnosing and solving problems in a Linux/Unix production environment.
• Robust understanding of large‑scale systems architecture.
• A persevering attitude to challenge the status quo.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills and ability to collaborate.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with configuration management, orchestration, CI/CD, API design, infrastructure monitoring and telemetry.
• Familiarity with Chef, SaltStack, Ansible, Airflow, Jenkins.
• Knowledge of Linux kernel or networking a major bonus.
• Experience with Windows (useful but not required).

Benefits & Opportunities

You’ll be part of a team that operates at scale, building platform functionality, negotiating edge cases, and engineering for safety across tens of thousands of hosts. While working alongside engineers focused on automation and reliability, you’ll be exposed to open‑source tools and be empowered to contribute back to the OSS community. You will help create tools to automate systems management and manage a diverse environment.

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