Site Reliable Engineer (SRE) for Equity Trading Platform

Position Title:  Site Reliable Engineer (SRE) for Equity Trading Platform

Job Description

Jefferies is seeking for Site Reliability Engineer to play an instrumental role in supporting Equity Front office trading application, risk and middle office real time products, developed and used for Equity Cash and ETS application.

As part of the wider platform engineering team, you will be working closely with the Business users interactively throughout the day, along with technical, analysis and testing colleagues. Investigation and resolution of the work items at hand will require competent technical skills and a keen intellect.  The business is a growth area, with current investments taking place in all the technology, business and middle office areas.

 

Job Duties: 

• Front Line Site Reliable Engineering and Support functions for Equity trading systems used by Jefferies clients as well as internal users.
• Build monitoring tools for application and infrastructure components. 
• Implement and manage scalable infrastructure using cloud-native technologies and tools.
• Gather and analyze metrics from operating systems as well as applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding.
• Partner with business, development and infrastructure teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployment processes.
• Expedient deployment of new systems. Capacity planning, Platform Management, and support for increasing volumes and business growth.
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation.
• Collaborate with Application team to establish and enforce production and development standards.
• Document procedures, best practices and troubleshooting FAQs.
• Resolve complex application and technical problems.
• Debugging the system and fixing the production related issues. 
• Escalate / follow-up on permanent fix for development related issues. 
• Lead incident response efforts and post-mortem analysis to prevent future occurrences.
• Handles complex operational tasks and recommends process and technology changes.
• Global support and includes weekend availability to troubleshoot production related issues and perform checkouts.
• Ability to work both independently and in groups in an energetic, diverse environment.
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure 24/7 system availability and support.
• Support compliance and legal queries.

 

Experience/skills Required: 

• Strong experience in Windows and Linux/Unix services. 
• Strong experience in scripting language like Power shell, Python and SQL.
• Strong Knowledge of monitoring tools – Nagios, Splunk, OTEL, Datadog
• Strong Knowledge of FIX protocol
• Strong Domain skills - Must have working experience in Capital Markets across modules and instruments especially – CASH, ETS, Bonds, Options, Futures, Swaps products
• Experience in BFSI (Banking and Financial Industry) Domain applications with a proper understanding of the Trade Lifecycle.
• Excellent communication, time management and project management skills.