SRE - Post Trade Engineering Desk
Our client, one of the world’s leading hedge funds, is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join their London office. This position offers unrivalled career progression and top of the range compensation, providing the opportunity to work within an elite engineering group at the heart of a globally recognised trading organisation. The successful candidate will be working on their high through-put, and highly available systems. In addition to influence architecture and platform design. They will also collaborate closely with quant trading, research, and data engineering teams to architect systems that are scalable, resilient, and observable from the ground up.
The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience with working with Java in relation to cloud based infrastructure, distributed systems, and large-scale production environments. They should be a capable coder with excellent Linux and Cloud expertise. Candidates with experience operating in high-level, low-latency environments within top-tier Financial Services or Big Tech, coupled with outstanding academic credentials, will be particularly competitive.
Responsibilities
*Build, operate, and maintain critical production infrastructure that supports trading and research platforms.
*Troubleshoot complex technical issues across the entire stack applications, systems, networking, and storage under time-sensitive and high-pressure conditions.
*Continuously monitor system performance, reliability, and capacity, proactively identifying opportunities for optimisation, automation, and strengthening resilience within the post trade engineering desk.
Qualifications
*Hands on in production experience with working in Java or a similar language.
*End to end incident ownership and RCA, with the ability to influence architecture and platform engineer.
*Expertise with cloud infrastructure, Linux systems and shell scripting.
*Hands on experience with monitoring, logging, observability, and automation frameworks.