Site ReliabilityJava Engineer

Position : Site Reliability Engineer (Java)

Location : Frankfurt Germany

ATech Recruitment is partnered with an award-winning trading platform that is integral to Asset Managers and Hedge Funds worldwide. The company provides a web-based trading technology that drives innovation in the FX market and has award-winning products that provide solutions for automating trading processes, live prices, and real-time aggregation of liquidity from their over 200 providers based in over 75 different countries.

The company is part of a group which has revenues of over 3 billion euros per year. With subsidiaries across the globe, you will be joining a dynamic company with a talented international team consisting of members from more than 50 nationalities worldwide.

The Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for the day-to-day health of the company platform services and for providing third-level operational support. The Site Reliability Engineering team is also responsible for maintaining and improving service uptime and service stability.

Your Role :

• Work in an engineering team to maintain systems acting as a guardian of the end-to-end performance and reliability
• Monitor site stability and performance and troubleshoot issues across the entire stack: software application and network
• Proactive monitoring and risk mitigation activities to ensure minimization of critical production issues and recurring problems
• Team player who can take on responsibility and execute tasks independently under pressure in our production environment
• Collaborate with developers to bring new features, services, and hotfixes into production
• Take part in a shared 24/7 on-call rotation
• Ability to explain complex or difficult concepts e.g. IT specs in a clear, succinct, and effective manner

Your Profile :

• Java programming skills (3 years) and knowledge about its core libraries
• Good knowledge of object-oriented analysis and design patterns
• Expertise in analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems with good knowledge of concurrency and synchronization issues/techniques in a multithreaded environment
• Strong understanding and experience with handling Unix/Linux platforms. Should be comfortable with maintaining a large-scale service platform
• Experience with system performance tuning at all levels (including Java/JVM, SQLs, buffer management, etc.)
• Experience with performance engineering for low-latency applications with practical knowledge of shell scripting in various languages (e.g. Python)
• Should have strong interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate across teams and skill levels
• Financial industry or comparable experience is a plus
• Distributed multithreaded systems
• Messaging technologies (JMS, AMQP, JGroups)
• Database systems (including Oracle and/or MySQL)
• Object-relational mapping technologies (Hibernate)
• One or more additional programming/scripting languages (Python, Bash)
• High level of spoken English

Salary Benefits

• Very attractive salary
• 25 days of vacation
• Regular salary reviews

If you like the sound of this opportunity, please get in touch with Adam Mahoney.