The Technology Reference Data SRE & DevOps team is looking to hire a highly motivated Site Reliability Engineer to join the team in the expansion and integration of the team group globally. The successful candidate will be responsible for assistance with our user/technical requirements, design, development, implementation and support of the global equity finance and securities lending systems.  This team is part of the core engineering team, and provides deployment and monitoring tools / automation, and works closely with our Support team and Development team to ensure 24/7 availability.  You will build infrastructure and monitoring tools to deploy and upgrade server applications and software platforms, with zero down time requirements.  In addition you’ll perform root-cause analysis, instituting preventive measures where indicated.  This position also requires strong communication, interpersonal and leadership skills, and a good candidate is expected to contribute to the vision and direction of the product line.

 

Key Attributes

 

Solid understanding of core programming principals A strong sense of good practice with respect to development techniques An understanding of the software development lifecycle process and OO programming An understanding of Continuous Delivery / Continuous Deployment practices Ideally understands securities lending/repo flows or demonstrates an eagerness to learn the business fully

Responsibilities 

 

Design software to improve availability, scalability and efficiency of the financing platform Solve problems and automate responses for recurrent issues Develop tools and applications to automate and support applications Gathering and refining requirements from stakeholders Build and Develop Continuous Delivery workflows for application build/deployment lifecycles Build and Develop monitoring solutions for applications (both cloud and physical infrastructure)

Technologies 

 

Familiarity with at least Java or Python programming language Experience with scripting languages (ex. Python, Perl, Basic Shell Scripting). Experience with reports and statistical analysis tools for real time and historical search like ELK, Sumologic, or Splunk.  Experience managing databases Oracle/Sybase/MySQL  Experience of monitoring tools like Geneos / Grafana Experience of build tools like Maven, Jenkins Willingness to learn and explore new technologies to help the team stay ahead with current development trends Have experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems Experience of working on highly scalable & highly available systems You are familiar with cloud computing systems