Site Reliability Engineer

Selby Jennings; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Site Reliability Engineer, where you will blend software engineering with system administration. This role emphasizes collaboration with traders and developers to create innovative solutions for real-time trading operations. You'll design and maintain resilient infrastructures, automate processes, and develop ETL pipelines and APIs. If you're proactive and eager to stay ahead of technology trends, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in the financial technology sector.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in Systems, Network, SRE, or DevOps engineering.
• Strong programming experience in Python and shell scripting with Git.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain automated, scalable infrastructure for trading operations.
• Develop and maintain ETL pipelines and REST APIs.

Skills

Systems Engineering

Network Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

DevOps Engineering

Python Programming

Shell Scripting

Version Control (Git)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)

CI/CD Pipelines

Cloud Technologies (AWS, GCP)

Containerization (Kubernetes, GKE, EKS)

Communication Skills

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

ArgoCD

Flux

Kubernetes

Google GKE

Amazon EKS

Job description

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Base pay range

$150,000.00/yr - $200,000.00/yr

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Recruitment Consultant @ Selby Jennings | Financial Technology

We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and assist with the design, development, and administration of our trading and research systems. This role is a unique blend of software engineering and system administration that encourages significant interaction with traders, developers, and researchers. The successful candidate will be proactive, have a strong sense of ownership, and be driven to provide creative technical solutions to business problems.

Salary: $150,000 - $200,000 base salary with discretionary bonus.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining highly automated, scalable, and resilient infrastructure in support of our real-time trading operations
• Building solutions to automate and improve operational reliability and efficiency
• Developing and maintaining binary and text-based ETL pipelines
• Interacting with and administering SQL and NoSQL databases both locally and in the cloud
• Developing and maintaining various REST APIs and assisting with their integration into other projects
• Participating in the design and implementation of green-field on-premises container orchestration platform
• Creating integrations with various cloud platforms and on-premises data systems
• Assisting the larger infrastructure team to develop system and network automations that make the team more efficient
• Collaborating with various stakeholders to develop automated, customizable, and proactive monitoring and reporting systems
• Participating in 2nd line support; responding to incidents quickly and appropriately to facilitate diagnosis and resolution
• Staying current with the latest technology trends in the industry; propose, evaluate, and deploy innovative solutions
• Implementing systems adhering to firm-wide security policies and industry best practices

Skills and Experience:

• 3+ years of experience in Systems, Network, SRE, or DevOps engineering
• Strong programming experience in Python and shell scripting with a version control system such as Git required
• Strong command of infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Salt Project, Puppet, and related technologies
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Jenkins, Bamboo, GitHub actions, Gitlab CI/CD, ArgoCD, Flux)
• Expertise in cloud technology (AWS and GCP experience preferred)
• Experience with containerization, both on-premises (e.g., Kubernetes) and in the public cloud (e.g., Google GKE, Amazon EKS)
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills and documentation/knowledge management skills

This role must sit in the firms Chicago office.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

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