Site Reliability Engineer

We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and assist with the design, development, and administration of our trading and research systems. This role is a unique blend of software engineering and system administration that encourages significant interaction with traders, developers, and researchers. The successful candidate will be proactive, have a strong sense of ownership, and be driven to provide creative technical solutions to business problems.

Salary: $150,000 - $200,000 base salary with discretionary bonus.

Primary Responsibilities:

Designing, implementing, and maintaining highly automated, scalable, and resilient infrastructure in support of our real-time trading operations

Building solutions to automate and improve operational reliability and efficiency

Developing and maintaining binary and text-based ETL pipelines

Interacting with and administering SQL and NoSQL databases both locally and in the cloud

Developing and maintaining various REST APIs and assisting with their integration into other projects

Participating in the design and implementation of green-field on-premises container orchestration platform

Creating integrations with various cloud platforms and on-premises data systems

Assisting the larger infrastructure team to develop system and network automations that make the team more efficient

Collaborating with various stakeholders to develop automated, customizable, and proactive monitoring and reporting systems

Participating in 2nd line support; responding to incidents quickly and appropriately to facilitate diagnosis and resolution

Staying current with the latest technology trends in the industry; propose, evaluate, and deploy innovative solutions

Implementing systems adhering to firm-wide security policies and industry best practices Skills and Experience:

3+ years of experience in Systems, Network, SRE, or DevOps engineering

Strong programming experience in Python and shell scripting with a version control system such as Git required

Strong command of infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Salt Project, Puppet, and related technologies

Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Jenkins, Bamboo, GitHub actions, Gitlab CI/CD, ArgoCD, Flux)

Expertise in cloud technology (AWS and GCP experience preferred)

Experience with containerization, both on-premises (e.g., Kubernetes) and in the public cloud (e.g., Google GKE, Amazon EKS)

Excellent verbal/written communication skills and documentation/knowledge management skills

This role must sit in the firms Chicago office.