Site Reliability Engineer

The Voleon Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The Voleon Group is a technology-driven company applying AI/ML techniques to finance. We seek an SRE to improve, manage and monitor production-critical infrastructure and data pipelines, collaborating with AI/ML and finance professionals.

You will be part of a Production Operations team, sometimes embedded with software engineers, to enhance reliability, reduce risk, and increase engineering efficiency in a results-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Python coding and debugging experience.
• Experience with Linux.
• Familiarity with Relational Databases & SQL.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Growth mindset and willingness to learn.
• Strong technical communication skills.
• Attention to detail.
• 2 years of relevant industry experience.
• Undergraduate degree in a quantitative field or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Improve fault-tolerance and maintainability of code in proprietary data pipelines and trading systems.
• Diagnose and fix bugs in code.
• Lead complex deployments.
• Automate manual workflows.
• Track and prioritize outstanding production-related issues.
• Share an on-call rotation responding to incidents to ensure the continuous operation of production-critical systems.

Skills

Python

Linux

SQL

Analytical thinking

Growth mindset

Technical communication

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

Tools

Postgres

Pandas

Golang

R

Git

Jenkins

Bazel

Prometheus

Grafana

Airflow

Kubernetes

gRPC

Job description

Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. For nearly two decades, we have led our industry and worked at the frontier of applying AI/ML to investment management. We have become a multibillion-dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future.

Your colleagues will include internationally recognized experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning research as well as highly experienced finance and technology professionals. The people who shape our company come from other backgrounds, including concert music performances, humanitarian aid, opera singing, sports writing, and BMX racing. You will be part of a team that loves to succeed together.

In addition to our enriching and collegial working environment, we offer highly competitive compensation and benefits packages, technology talks by our experts, a beautiful modern office, daily catered lunches, and more.

As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will work at the intersection of production operations and software development as you improve, manage, and monitor production-critical infrastructure and data pipelines. At Voleon, many SREs serve together on a Production Operations team tasked with improving shared production infrastructure. Others are embedded with teams of software engineers to improve specific production systems owned by those teams. Voleon SREs work on important real-world problems and collaborate with passionate and talented colleagues in an empowering, results-driven environment. This role is a way to make a real difference: your contributions will make our critical systems more reliable, lower operational risk, and increase the efficiency of our engineering effort.

Responsibilities

• Improve fault-tolerance and maintainability of code in proprietary data pipelines and trading systems

• Diagnose and fix bugs in code

• Lead complex deployments

• Automate manual workflows

• Track and prioritize outstanding production-related issues

• Share an on-call rotation responding to incidents to ensure the continuous operation of production-critical systems

Requirements

• Experience with coding and debugging Python

• Experience with Linux

• Familiarity with Relational Databases & SQL

• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills and a persistent drive to make things work (better)

• Strong growth mindset and a passion for learning

• Strong technical communication skills

• Attention to detail

• 2 years of relevant industry experience

• An undergraduate degree or comparable training in a quantitative field or equivalent, relevant industry experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with best practices concerning code maintainability, documentation, quality assurance, continuous integration and deployment

• Experience supporting production systems

• Experience with any of the following: gRPC microservices, Postgres, Pandas, Golang, R, Git, Jenkins, Bazel, Prometheus, Grafana, Airflow, Kubernetes

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.