Site Reliability Engineer - Global Hedge Fund

Paragon Alpha - Hedge Fund Talent Business; England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hedge fund in the United Kingdom is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to evolve and scale their trading platform. The ideal candidate will focus on automation and system resilience, ensuring stability and performance of critical trading systems. You will build operational tools, improve observability, and interact collaboratively within a high-performance engineering culture. This full-time role offers a mid-senior level opportunity in a dynamic finance environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in building operational tooling and automation.
• Strong understanding of core SRE principles for system reliability.
• Ability to improve observability and incident response in production environments.
• Experience improving mean time to repair (MTTR) and incident response processes.

Responsibilities

• Build operational tooling and automation for high‑performance trading platform.
• Improve observability and incident response processes.
• Apply SRE principles to ensure system stability and scalability.

Skills

Automation

Observability

Incident response

Systems resilience

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Prometheus

Terraform

Job description

Site Reliability Engineer – Global Hedge Fund

A world‑leading $30Bn AUM quant hedge fund is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help evolve and scale their high‑performance trading platform, with a strong focus on automation, reliability, and system resilience.

You will be responsible for building operational tooling and automation, improving observability and incident response, and applying core SRE principles to ensure the stability, performance, and scalability of mission‑critical trading systems.

The firm offers a highly collaborative engineering culture with strong ownership, close interaction with developers and quants, and the opportunity to work on latency‑sensitive, production‑critical systems.

Responsibilities

• Building operational tooling and automation for the trading platform.
• Improving observability and incident response.
• Applying core SRE principles to ensure stability, performance, and scalability of mission‑critical trading systems.

Pay Range

This range is provided by Paragon Alpha – Hedge Fund Talent Business. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base Pay Range

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Seniority level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

• Full‑time

Job function

• Engineering and Finance
• Financial Services, Investment Banking, and Investment Management

Please get in touch if this is of interest.