Trading Platform SRE: Reliability, Automation & Performance

Selby Jennings; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Selby Jennings in New York is seeking an experienced DevOps/SRE professional to maintain and enhance the stability of critical trading infrastructure. The role emphasizes diagnosing complex issues, collaborating with end users, and improving system performance in a fast-paced environment.

You will partner with multiple teams across technology and business functions to support low-latency platforms and automate operations, ensuring high availability and rapid incident resolution.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience supporting production environments, platform engineering, site reliability, DevOps, or infrastructure operations.
• Strong scripting and automation experience using Python and Linux shell scripting.
• Deep understanding of Linux systems administration, performance analysis, and troubleshooting.
• Experience supporting business-critical applications in a high-availability environment.

Responsibilities

• Support and enhance the reliability, availability, and performance of business-critical trading platforms.
• Investigate production incidents and drive resolution across infrastructure, applications, and workflow processes.
• Partner with trading, quantitative, development, and operational teams to improve system efficiency and user experience.
• Serve as a primary point of escalation for complex production issues and drive root-cause analysis efforts.
• Monitor distributed Linux-based environments, identifying risks and performance bottlenecks before they impact users.
• Develop and maintain automation, operational tooling, deployment workflows, monitoring solutions, and platform management processes.
• Participate in operational support responsibilities and contribute to ongoing service improvements.
• Work closely with engineering teams to implement, test, and deploy technology enhancements.
• Continuously evaluate existing processes and recommend improvements that increase stability, scalability, and operational effectiveness.

Skills

Python scripting

Linux shell scripting

Linux system administration

SRE/DevOps

Troubleshooting

Automation tooling

Performance analysis

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Selby Jennings in New York is seeking an experienced DevOps/SRE professional to maintain and enhance the stability of critical trading infrastructure. The role emphasizes diagnosing complex issues, collaborating with end users, and improving system performance in a fast-paced environment.

You will partner with multiple teams across technology and business functions to support low-latency platforms and automate operations, ensuring high availability and rapid incident resolution.