Senior Software Engineer/SRE - Managed Systems Engineering

Bloomberg L.P.; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology company in London seeks a Senior Software Engineer/SRE for its Managed Systems Engineering group. The role involves building automation and maintaining a global production server fleet. Candidates should have expertise in programming (Python or Ruby) and experience in a Linux/Unix environment. A degree in a related field is required, along with strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Experience with an object-oriented programming language like Python or Ruby.
• Expertise in analyzing, diagnosing, and solving problems in a Linux/Unix production environment.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills and ability to work well in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Build automation to provision, configure, and maintain Bloomberg’s global production server fleet.
• Help advise application teams on best practices for architecting software.

Skills

Object-oriented programming (Python or Ruby)

Linux/Unix production environment troubleshooting

Large-scale systems architecture

Interpersonal communication skills

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics

Tools

Chef

Ansible

SaltStack

Jenkins

Job description

Senior Software Engineer/SRE - Managed Systems Engineering

Location

London

Business Area

Engineering and CTO

Ref #

10044798

Description & Requirements

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. Key to providing the mission-critical infrastructure which powers our platform, the Managed Systems Engineering (MSE) group is responsible for building automation to provision, configure, and maintain Bloomberg’s global production server fleet throughout its lifecycle. MSE also builds and maintains numerous vital infrastructure services ranging from configuration management and orchestration frameworks to DNS and monitoring infrastructure.

MSE uses an infrastructure-as-code approach in conjunction with open-source tools to ensure a scalable and reliable environment in which to operate. The group’s responsibilities include helping to advise application teams on best practices for architecting software and dealing with some of the company’s biggest infrastructure performance challenges. No matter where your interests lie in the field of infrastructure engineering, MSE has a position which will suit you!

What’s in it for you:

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. As part of MSE, you will have the opportunity to work alongside engineers focused on automation and reliability while being exposed to many open-source tools and being empowered to contribute back to the OSS community. We have unique and interesting challenges to solve: you will be asked to help build a pathway toward increasingly virtualized and containerized infrastructure, create tools to automate systems management within some of our most mission-critical application space, and provide creative solutions for better managing our diverse environment.

You’ll need to have:

• Experience working with an object-oriented programming language like python or ruby
• A Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience
• Expertise in analyzing, 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 work well in a collaborative environment

We'd love to see:

• An understanding of some or all of the following: configuration management, orchestration, CI/CD, API design and implementation, infrastructure monitoring and telemetry
• Familiarity with one or more of the following technologies is preferred: Chef, SaltStack, Ansible, Airflow, Jenkins
• Linux kernel or networking knowledge is a major bonus
• Experience with Windows is useful but not required

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