AVP - SRE - Platform Engineering

Position:  Platform Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Overview

We are seeking a hands-on, technically skilled professional to join our global team as an Associate Platform Reliability Engineer. This role is critical to ensuring the stability, reliability, and resilience of Jefferies’ front-to-back technology infrastructure, with a focus on post-trade processing, operations, and regulatory support.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a high-performing global team to maintain plant stability across middle-office and operations applications.
• Lead incident triage, root cause analysis, and communication, with a strong focus on problem management.
• Partner with regional teams to drive technical and functional initiatives.
• Identify and eliminate manual support tasks through automation; develop tools for deployment, management, and service visibility.
• Design and implement robust monitoring and alerting systems using platforms like AppD and OpenTelemetry.
• Work closely with engineering teams to support system architecture, schema design, and performance tuning.
• Troubleshoot issues across the full technology stack.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in programming with Python, Go, C/C++, or C#.
• Strong foundation in computing fundamentals—data structures, algorithms, and software design.
• Experience in application design, maintenance, and support.
• Solid understanding of SRE principles and practices.
• Proficiency in Linux/Unix and Windows Server environments.
• Hands-on experience with scripting, databases, and troubleshooting application/data access issues.
• Self-driven with a strong sense of ownership and commitment to quality.
• Excellent communication skills, able to engage both technical and business stakeholders.
• Familiarity with open-source platforms such as Redis, MongoDB, Kafka, and Elasticsearch.
• Experience configuring observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, Loki).
• Exposure to DevOps tools and technologies including Git, Jenkins, Ansible.

Jefferies is a leading global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm that provides advisory, sales and trading, research, and wealth and asset management services. With more than 40 offices around the world, we offer insights and expertise to investors, companies, and governments.

At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.

Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer, and takes affirmative action to ensure that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.