Lead Site Reliability Engineer - Trading Platform

NinjaTrader; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

NinjaTrader is seeking a Platform Engineering expert to lead the SRE function and oversee the availability, performance, and scalability of our trading systems. You will deploy across Kubernetes clusters, automate provisioning with Terraform, and partner with Product, Operations, and QA to maintain 99.95% uptime.

You will mentor engineers, design monitoring with SLIs/SLOs, and drive security/compliance practices while supporting global traders on our platform.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.
• Expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions.
• Proficiency in programming languages (Python, Bash, or Go) and automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Helm.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, including networking, security, and identity management in cloud environments.
• Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar.
• Strong collaboration, communication, and leadership skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams and mentor junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead for the SRE function, setting technical direction and mentoring engineers across reliability initiatives
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and remediate production issues with a systematic problem-solving approach to keep revenue-generating systems running
• Participate in a weekly 12x7 on-call rotation, including weekend deployments and checkouts before markets open on Sundays
• Perform initial root cause analysis and remediation of production incidents
• Build tools that automate repetitive tasks, deployments, and incident responses with the goal of minimal human involvement
• Design reliable monitoring and alerting systems with Product and QA teams, establishing and tracking SLIs/SLOs across web, mobile, desktop, and trading platforms
• Leverage Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform to automate provisioning, scaling, and management across all platforms
• Collaborate with Product Engineering, Operations, and other cross-functional teams to deliver features on time while meeting scalability, security, and performance requirements
• Implement security and compliance best practices (e.g., SOC 2, PCI DSS) throughout the software delivery lifecycle for web, mobile, and desktop deployments

Skills

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Python

Bash

Go

Ansible

Terraform

Helm

Tools

GitHub Actions

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

NinjaTrader is seeking a Platform Engineering expert to lead the SRE function and oversee the availability, performance, and scalability of our trading systems. You will deploy across Kubernetes clusters, automate provisioning with Terraform, and partner with Product, Operations, and QA to maintain 99.95% uptime.

You will mentor engineers, design monitoring with SLIs/SLOs, and drive security/compliance practices while supporting global traders on our platform.