Senior SRE / Platform Engineer - NYC/Chicago- Global Prime Brokerage & Financing Platform

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Full Time

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Skills

Financial Services
Brokerage
Financing
Workflow
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
GitHub
Real-time
High Availability
Time Series
Database
PostgreSQL
Replication
Failover
Query Optimization
Amazon EC2
Amazon S3
Remote Desktop Services
Amazon RDS
API
Amazon Route 53
Amazon EFS
Backup
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon CloudFront
Virtual Private Cloud
Computer Networking
Python
Streaming
Apache Kafka
Amazon Kinesis
Systems Architecture
Disaster Recovery
Performance Tuning
Management
Terraform
Incident Management
Reliability Engineering
Leadership
Root Cause Analysis
Finance
Financial Technology
Amazon Web Services

Summary

Exciting opportunity at one of the fastest growing financial services firms around the world. They offer prime brokerage, clearing and financing across traditional and digital assets, and are now looking to hire world-class engineers to help build on their success.

Responsibilities will include:

Automate infrastructure and operational workflows using IaC with Terraform and AWS CDK.
Develop & optimize CI/CD pipelines to improve software delivery for large-scale distributed systems using Amazon CodeBuild, GitHub Actions & Terraform Enterprise
Implement and maintain observability solutions to establish real-time monitoring and proactive incident response using Datadog and AWS CloudWatch
Ensure high availability and performance of relational and time-series databases (PostgreSQL/QuestDB), including replication, failover strategies, and query optimization

Skills & Experience Required

Extensive experience with AWS, including EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, Lambda, MWAA, API Gateway, Route53, SSM, EFS, Backup, DynamoDB, Cloudfront, VPC, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, CodeArtifact, Config, Elasticache, and networking components in a highly available environment.
Strong Python programming & automation skills in Python
Proven experience with event streaming (i.e. Kafka/Kinesis)
Deep understanding of distributed systems architecture, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and performance tuning
Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g. Datadog, ELK, CloudWatch)
Proven track record managing infrastructure with Terraform or AWS CDK
Strong background in incident management, system reliability, and operational leadership, with experience conducting root cause analysis & implementing reliability improvements

Benefits & Incentives

Build and scale mission-critical systems that power global financial markets
Work in a technology-driven culture focused on automation, performance, and reliability
Contribute to shaping the future of financial technology
Engage with cutting-edge AWS, SRE, and observability tools in a fast-moving environment

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

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If you feel you are suitable for this role, don't hesitate to get in touch!

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Position Id: 24072996
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