Site Reliability Engineer

Selby Jennings; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hedge fund in Greater London is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to enhance the observability and reliability of their ETF trading platform. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in low latency trading, be proficient in Python and bash scripting, and have experience with AI tools for workflow acceleration. This role combines technical responsibilities with cross-team collaboration, making it essential for improving overall system performance. Competitive compensation and a dynamic work environment are offered.

Qualifications

• Experience in latency sensitive financial environments.
• Proficiency with AI and agentic coding tools.
• Ability for cross team collaboration and communication.

Responsibilities

• Build and own observability for the ETF trading platform.
• Design and implement tooling to improve reliability.
• Manage systems deployments and upgrades.
• Automate exchange go-live operations and workflows.

Skills

Experience in production SRE or platform engineering

Strong python scripting

Strong bash scripting

Deep experience in Linux systems

Experience with monitoring stacks

Cross team collaboration

Tools

AI coding tools

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Our client, a world leading systematic multi strat hedgefund is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to work within their ETF Trading systems. This role combines building and owning the observability of the ETF trading platform as well as coordinating across exchange connectivity quant platforms and risk team. This role sits within the front office and blends that deep technical impact with front office speed and efficiency.

The optimal candidate will be someone who has previous experience in low latency trading settings setting the bar for reliability and scaling highly distributed systems within business critical systems. In addition to AI and agentic coding tools to accelerate trading work flows and strong python and bash scripting.

Responsebilities:

• Building and owning observability, deployment, and incident response for the ETF trading platform
• Designing and implementing development tooling and platform infrastructure to improve reliability and developer productivity
• Manage systems deployments, upgrades, and migrations
• Coordinate across exchange connectivity, quant platform and risk teams as new venues are onboarded.
• Automate exchange go-live operations, data pipelines, and desk workflows - leveraging AI tooling

Requirements:

• Experience in production SRE or platform engineering in a latency sensitive financial environment
• Deep experience in Linux systems cloud and infrastructure as code
• Experience with monitoring stacks and CI/CD pipelines
• Proficiency with AI and agentic coding tools to accelerate workflows
• Strong python and bash scripting for automation tooling
• Cross team collaboration and communication is key