Position Title: Site Reliable Engineer (SRE) for Equity Trading Platform
Job Description
Jefferies is seeking for Site Reliability Engineer to play an instrumental role in supporting Equity Front office trading application, risk and middle office real time products, developed and used for Equity Cash and ETS application.
As part of the wider platform engineering team, you will be working closely with the Business users interactively throughout the day, along with technical, analysis and testing colleagues. Investigation and resolution of the work items at hand will require competent technical skills and a keen intellect. The business is a growth area, with current investments taking place in all the technology, business and middle office areas.
Job Duties:
- Front Line Site Reliable Engineering and Support functions for Equity trading systems used by Jefferies clients as well as internal users.
- Build monitoring tools for application and infrastructure components.
- Implement and manage scalable infrastructure using cloud-native technologies and tools.
- Gather and analyze metrics from operating systems as well as applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding.
- Partner with business, development and infrastructure teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployment processes.
- Expedient deployment of new systems. Capacity planning, Platform Management, and support for increasing volumes and business growth.
- Create sustainable systems and services through automation.
- Collaborate with Application team to establish and enforce production and development standards.
- Document procedures, best practices and troubleshooting FAQs.
- Resolve complex application and technical problems.
- Debugging the system and fixing the production related issues.
- Escalate / follow-up on permanent fix for development related issues.
- Lead incident response efforts and post-mortem analysis to prevent future occurrences.
- Handles complex operational tasks and recommends process and technology changes.
- Global support and includes weekend availability to troubleshoot production related issues and perform checkouts.
- Ability to work both independently and in groups in an energetic, diverse environment.
- Participate in on-call rotations to ensure 24/7 system availability and support.
- Support compliance and legal queries.
Experience/skills Required:
- Strong experience in Windows and Linux/Unix services.
- Strong experience in scripting language like Power shell, Python and SQL.
- Strong Knowledge of monitoring tools – Nagios, Splunk, OTEL, Datadog
- Strong Knowledge of FIX protocol
- Strong Domain skills - Must have working experience in Capital Markets across modules and instruments especially – CASH, ETS, Bonds, Options, Futures, Swaps products
- Experience in BFSI (Banking and Financial Industry) Domain applications with a proper understanding of the Trade Lifecycle.
- Excellent communication, time management and project management skills.
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.
Skills Required
- Strong experience in Windows and Linux/Unix services.
- Strong experience with scripting languages: PowerShell, Python, and SQL.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Strong knowledge of monitoring tools: Nagios, Splunk, OpenTelemetry (OTEL), Datadog.
- Strong knowledge of FIX protocol.
- Working experience in Capital Markets across CASH, ETS, Bonds, Options, Futures, Swaps.
- Experience in BFSI/Banking & Financial Industry applications with understanding of the trade lifecycle.
- Ability to participate in on-call rotations, global support, and weekend availability.
- Excellent communication, time management and project management skills.
- Ability to lead incident response, perform post-mortems and document procedures/best practices.
Jefferies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Jefferies and has not been reviewed or approved by Jefferies.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Compensation is positioned as competitive with meaningful upside, with potential for significant earnings depending on group performance and strong years. A formulaic, performance-linked bonus model ties payouts to individual fees or P&L, reinforcing a pay-for-results dynamic.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-building support is broad, including primary and non-primary caregiver leave, adoption assistance, subsidized emergency child and eldercare, and a $25,000 stipend for qualified surrogacy, adoption, or fertility support. Added resources like family support programs and parental-leave coaching further strengthen caregiver benefits.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Lifestyle perks extend beyond standard coverage, including discount programs, commuter benefits, legal plans, charitable matching, and education assistance such as tuition support and scholarships for employees’ family members. Location-specific perks like gym stipends and free cafeteria lunch are also described as available in some offices.
Jefferies Insights
What We Do
Jefferies, the global investment banking firm, has served companies and investors for 60 years. Headquartered in New York, with offices in over 30 cities around the world, the firm provides clients with capital markets and financial advisory services, institutional brokerage and securities research, as well as asset and wealth management. The firm provides research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services including underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Jefferies Group LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jefferies Financial Group (NYSE: JEF), a diversified financial services company. More about our company can be found at www.jefferies.com.
