SRE - Equity Trading Platforms | 24/7 Production Support

Methodhub; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 96,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

MethodHub is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support mission-critical Equity Trading Platforms and front‑office trading applications in Jersey City. The role requires on‑call production support and in‑person collaboration.

You will work with Fidessa, FIX, OMS/EMS, and messaging stacks, ensuring high availability through Linux/Windows troubleshooting, scripting, and modern CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, Git, Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD) on AWS with Docker and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Fidessa, FIX protocols, and equity trading systems.
• Experience with OMS/EMS, FIX connectivity, order routing, DMA, and drop-copy flows.
• Deep knowledge of capital markets and the equity trading lifecycle.
• Strong troubleshooting across Linux/Unix, Windows, networking, and databases.
• Scripting and automation with Python, Perl, Bash/Shell, or PowerShell.
• Proficient in monitoring tools like Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, or Dynatrace.
• Experience with messaging systems such as Kafka, IBM MQ, Tibco EMS, or ActiveMQ.
• CI/CD and DevOps tooling: Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket, Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD.
• Experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and production incident management.

Responsibilities

• Provide on-call production support for front-office trading applications.
• Troubleshoot FIX connectivity and ensure high availability of trading systems.

Skills

Fidessa, FIX Protocol 4.2/4.4/5.0

Equity Trading Systems

OMS/EMS, FIX connectivity, order; DMA,

Capital Markets & Equity lifecycle

Linux/Unix, Windows, networking, DBs

Scripting: Python, Perl, Bash, Power​S

Monitoring: Splunk, Grafana, PromQL

Messaging: Kafka, IBM MQ, Tibco EMS, A

CI/CD & DevOps: Jenkins, Git, Bitbuc,

AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, incident mgt

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

ArgoCD

Splunk

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK

Dynatrace

Kafka

IBM MQ

Tibco EMS

ActiveMQ

Job description

MethodHub is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support mission-critical Equity Trading Platforms and front‑office trading applications in Jersey City. The role requires on‑call production support and in‑person collaboration.

You will work with Fidessa, FIX, OMS/EMS, and messaging stacks, ensuring high availability through Linux/Windows troubleshooting, scripting, and modern CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, Git, Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD) on AWS with Docker and Kubernetes.