SRE/DevOps Engineer

Insight Global; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)/DevOps for a top financial services client. This role supports and maintains enterprise-level infrastructure in a large-scale, high-availability environment across Windows and Linux, leveraging monitoring tools, scripting, and networking knowledge.

The candidate will proactively build monitoring solutions, automate operational processes, and investigate complex issues across a distributed trading ecosystem with ownership and customer

Qualifications

• 6-8 years of enterprise-level administration and support.
• 6-8 years writing automation scripts and building dashboards.
• 6-8 years SDLC experience and process improvements.
• Hands-on enterprise systems administration, monitoring, and deployment.
• Experience with Windows Server 2016/2019/2022 hosted via VM.
• Knowledge of DNS, DHCP, firewalls, and IP routing.
• Familiarity with large-scale distributed systems and high-availability architectures.
• Linux and Windows administration, troubleshooting, and tuning.
• Development experience in .NET/C#/PowerShell/Yaml/Java/Python/Bash.
• Knowledge of SQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Postgres.

Responsibilities

• Administer, support, monitor, and deploy enterprise systems.
• Develop automation scripts to improve operational efficiency.
• Build application monitoring dashboards and alerting solutions.
• Proactively identify and resolve infrastructure and application issues.
• Support Linux and Windows server environments.
• Troubleshoot networking, database, and system performance issues.
• Collaborate with teams to improve system reliability and operational processes.
• Participate in SDLC practices and process improvement initiatives.
• Drive issue resolution within a complex trading ecosystem.

Skills

System administration

Networking concepts

Windows Server

Linux administration

Scripting languages

Cloud concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

Grafana

Datadog

InfluxDB

ThousandEyes

Moog

Job description

Location

Hybrid (Westlake, TX preferred; Austin, TX secondary)

• Remote: Tuesdays and Fridays
• Candidate will work remotely until a seat becomes available onsite

Interview

2 rounds

Day-to-Day

• Administer, support, monitor, and deploy enterprise systems
• Develop automation scripts to improve operational efficiency
• Build application monitoring dashboards and alerting solutions
• Proactively identify and resolve infrastructure and application issues
• Support Linux and Windows server environments
• Troubleshoot networking, database, and system performance issues
• Collaborate with teams to improve system reliability and operational processes
• Participate in SDLC practices and process improvement initiatives
• Drive issue resolution within a complex trading ecosystem

Job Description

Insight Global is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)/DevOps for a top financial services client. This candidate will be responsible for supporting and maintaining enterprise-level infrastructure within a large-scale, high-availability environment. The ideal candidate will leverage strong systems administration, automation, monitoring, and troubleshooting skills to ensure platform reliability and performance. This role requires hands-on experience across Windows and Linux environments, monitoring tools, scripting languages, and networking technologies. The candidate will proactively build monitoring solutions, automate operational processes, and investigate complex issues across a distributed trading ecosystem while maintaining a strong sense of ownership and customer focus.

Must-Haves

• 6-8 years of experience with enterprise level administration and support
• 6-8 years of experience in writing automation scripts, building application dashboards for proactive monitoring, setting up alerts for early determination of the issues in Grafana, Influx, Datadog, Moog, ThousandEyes etc..
• 6-8 years of experience practicing SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) practice, process improvements
• Hands on enterprise systems administration, monitoring, and deployment activities
• Experience with Windows 2016, 2019, 2022 hosted via Virtual Machine
• Knowledge of IP networking including DNS, DHCP, firewalls, IP routing, etc.
• Familiarity with large scale distributed systems and high-availability architectures
• Linux and Windows system administration, troubleshooting, and tuning
• Development experience in one or more or programming languages such as .Net, C#, Powershell, Yaml, Java, Python, Bash
• Knowledge of one or more of SQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Postgres databases
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline

Plusses

• Financial services industry experience