Senior SRE - Platform Reliability & Cloud Automation

CME Group; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus Programme

Equity Programme

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Private Medical and Dental coverage

Mental Health Benefit Programme

Group Pension Plan

Income Protection

Life Assurance

Cycle To Work

EV Car Benefit Scheme

Gym Membership

Family Leave

Education Assistance – MBA/Advanced/BS

Ongoing Employee Development Training/

Job summary

CME Group is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) III to engineer reliability for our Google Cloud (GCP) infrastructure and middeware platform engineering. You will help build resilient, automated systems for CME's derivatives platform, enabling high concurrency with ultra-low latency.

You will mentor junior engineers, participate in production operations, and contribute to cloud transformation efforts across the engineering stack.

Qualifications

• Proficiency with Linux-based systems and distributed systems.
• Experience with Kubernetes/GKE and public cloud platforms (GCP).
• Strong scripting and programming skills (Python/Go/Java/Bash).
• Knowledge of CI/CD patterns and IaC tools (Terraform/Ansible).
• Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).

Responsibilities

• Architect, operate, and support migration of platforms to Google Cloud.
• Design, scale, and maintain observability using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry.
• Lead incident response, post-mortems, and rapid recovery of production systems.
• Reduce toil through automation and platform improvements.
• Contribute to disaster recovery strategies and resiliency testing.
• Lead technical discussions and mentor junior SRE teammates.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

Bash

Kubernetes

Tools

Kubernetes

GCP

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Kafka

Job description

CME Group is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) III to engineer reliability for our Google Cloud (GCP) infrastructure and middeware platform engineering. You will help build resilient, automated systems for CME's derivatives platform, enabling high concurrency with ultra-low latency.

You will mentor junior engineers, participate in production operations, and contribute to cloud transformation efforts across the engineering stack.