Site Reliability Engineer - Chicago Financial Search, Inc.

Site Reliability Engineer

Chicago - Onsite

About The Role:

We seek a Site Reliability Engineer to enhance our team, focusing on designing, developing, and managing our trading and research systems. This position combines software engineering and system administration, fostering close collaboration with traders, developers, and researchers. The ideal candidate will be proactive, possess a strong sense of ownership, and be motivated to deliver innovative technical solutions to business challenges.

What You'll Do:

• Architect, deploy, and sustain highly automated, scalable, and resilient infrastructure to support our real-time trading operations.
• Develop solutions to automate processes and enhance operational reliability and efficiency.
• Work with various stakeholders to create automated, customizable, and proactive monitoring and reporting systems.
• Develop integrations between various cloud platforms and on-premises data systems.
• Design and maintain binary and text-based ETL pipelines.
• Support the infrastructure team in creating system and network automations to enhance team efficiency.
• Oversee the development and maintenance of our cloud-based high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure.
• Create various REST APIs and assist with their integration into other projects.
• Provide second-line support by responding promptly and appropriately to incidents to facilitate diagnosis and resolution.
• Keep abreast of the latest technology trends; propose, evaluate, and implement innovative solutions.
• Implement systems in compliance with firm-wide security policies and industry best practices.
• Manage and interact with SQL and NoSQL databases both locally and in the cloud.

What We're Looking For:

• Possess 3+ years of experience in Systems, Networking, SRE, or DevOps engineering.
• Demonstrated strong programming skills in Python and shell scripting, with experience using version control systems such as Git.
• Proficient in infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Salt Project, Puppet, and related technologies.
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI/CD.
• Expertise in cloud technology, with a preference for experience with AWS and GCP.
• Experienced in containerization, both on-premises (e.g., Kubernetes) and in the public cloud (e.g., Google GKE, Amazon EKS).
• Advanced knowledge of TCP/IP networking, architecture, and core technologies, including DNS, DHCP, HTTP, Routing, and VPN.
• Knowledgeable in storage architecture and core technologies, including NFS, block storage, and object storage.
• Outstanding verbal/written communication skills and documentation/knowledge management skills

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