Site Reliability Engineer
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Role Overview
Hands-on Site Reliability Engineering role supporting infrastructure for a global electronic trading platform.
Focuses on reliability, scalability, operational excellence, automation, and resilient production systems.
The team uses event-driven reliability engineering to detect abnormal behavior and infrastructure anomalies before they affect trading.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role Overview
Hands-on Site Reliability Engineering role supporting infrastructure for a global electronic trading platform.
Focuses on reliability, scalability, operational excellence, automation, and resilient production systems.
The team uses event-driven reliability engineering to detect abnormal behavior and infrastructure anomalies before they affect trading.
Location and Work Setting
- The posting states Sydney or Hong Kong and onsite work in a global trading environment.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain reliable Linux-based production infrastructure.
- Develop infrastructure as code using Terraform and Ansible.
- Build observability platforms with Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk.
- Create event-driven monitoring, intelligent alerting, and automated remediation workflows.
- Improve incident response and operational tooling for trading systems.
- Support PostgreSQL, InfluxDB, and Prefect production platforms.
- Administer CEPH, VMware, KVM, and Proxmox virtualization and storage platforms.
- Collaborate with software engineers and improve CI/CD and deployment tooling.
Requirements
- Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting experience.
- Python development experience for internal tools.
- Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or comparable observability platforms.
- Experience designing operational-event monitoring, anomaly detection, and actionable alerts.
- Networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, routing, and firewalls.
- Experience with Docker and modern development tooling.
- Exposure to virtualization platforms such as VMware, KVM, Proxmox, or CEPH.
- Low-latency, distributed, or mission-critical production experience is highly regarded.
Role Highlights
- Work on infrastructure directly supporting real-time trading.
- Solve reliability challenges where milliseconds matter.
- Help shape monitoring, automation, and operational engineering practices.
- Collaborate with experienced infrastructure and software engineers.
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