Staff Site Reliability Engineer - SRE

CME Group; Belfast; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services technology firm in Northern Ireland is seeking a Senior SRE to ensure system reliability and drive improvements in their Markets portfolio. The role involves collaborating with product teams to define reliability metrics, leading incident response efforts, and mentoring junior engineers. Candidates should have experience with Linux, cloud platforms, and a strong grasp of SRE principles. Join this innovative team to advance your SRE career while contributing to cloud migration efforts.

Benefits

Bonus Programme

Equity Programme

Private Medical and Dental coverage

Education Assistance

Ongoing Employee Development Training

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of SRE principles and practices.
• May have previously worked in an SRE, software engineering, DevOps, or systems engineering role.
• A growth mindset; eagerness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced trading environment.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams to define SLIs and SLOs.
• Drive reliability backlog discussions with stakeholders.
• Lead major incident response investigations.
• Mentor and guide junior SREs.
• Support migration of applications to Google Cloud Platform.

Skills

Experience with Linux-based systems

Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities

Excellent communication and teamwork skills

Experience driving reliability improvements

Experience with Docker & Kubernetes

Education

Experience in Financial markets

Experience working in an agile environment

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Splunk

Prometheus

Grafana

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

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As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup...

CME Group is seeking a Senior SRE (Tuesday to Saturday + shift allowance) to help, build, operate and scale systems in our Markets portfolio. Markets SREs work on products and applications related to CME’s Globex trading platform. Our systems deliver an exceptional combination of low-latency performance and rock-solid reliability to seamlessly handle the world’s busiest trading days.

The successful candidate will have a strong understanding of SRE principles and practices, enjoy the cut-and-thrust of operating Production systems, be a strong communicator, and may have previously worked in an SRE role, a software engineering role, a DevOps role or a systems engineering role.

About the role

As a Senior SRE you'll work closely with Staff SREs and Product leaders to drive improvements in the reliability of our systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with SRE leadership and product development teams to define what “reliable” means for our systems, eliciting and documenting SLIs and SLOs via user-journey distillations
• Act as a partner to product teams, delivering key observability, monitoring and alerting improvements - continuously improving our SLI & SLOs and observability data enabling faster issue detection and incident resolution
• Takes accountability for delivery of significant changes - ensuring delivery risks and dependencies are managed with regular proactive communication
• Drive reliability backlog discussions with key stakeholders - identify reliability risks and influence prioritisation
• Design automation for deployment, scaling and recovery
• Lead major incident response investigations - demonstrates urgency, puts customer first, ensures system recovery, and leads post-mortems afterwards
• Participate in on-call rotation
• Run Production review meetings based on data showing performance against SLOs, error budgets and incidents
• Contribute to DR and systems resiliency testing & improvements
• Mentor and guide junior SREs to improve reliability engineering culture
• Mentor and guide product team engineers on SRE practices - being an advocate for reliability as a practice, not just a role
• Support the migration of markets applications to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), ensuring a seamless transition
• Stay informed on emerging technologies & latest industry trends, and recognise opportunities for CME Group

What We’re Looking for

• Experience with Linux-based systems
• Experience with Cloud-based platform(s) - Google Cloud Platform, GCE, and/or GKE a bonus
• Understanding of application architectures and messaging protocols
• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills across disciplines
• Adaptable and flexible, demonstrating a positive and proactive approach towards change
• A growth mindset; eagerness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced trading environment.
• Experience driving reliability improvements across a team or service
• Previous experience working in a DevOps or SRE role.
• Previous experience working with metrics & monitoring, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, etc
• Experience and knowledge of working with distributed systems and working with Docker & Kubernetes
• Good knowledge of networking (HTTP/TCP/UDP/IP)
• Experience in Financial markets
• Experience with REST services and message-oriented middleware
• Experience working in an agile environment

Why CME Group

• Be part of a global leader in financial services technology
• Work on cutting-edge technology in a collaborative and innovative culture
• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Opportunity to grow and advance your career in SRE with an organisation who is transforming to this approach

Join CME Group and play a crucial role in ensuring the stability and performance of our Markets applications while contributing to the migration to Google Cloud Platform. Apply now to be a part of our dynamic SRE team!

Company Benefits

• Bonus Programme
• Equity Programme
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Private Medical and Dental coverage
• Income Protection
• Life Assurance
• Cycle To Work
• Family Leave
• Education Assistance – MBA/Advanced Degree/Bachelor Degree
• Ongoing Employee Development Training/Certification