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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.
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