We are seeking a passionate SRE to join our dynamic team.
The Site Reliability Engineer II - Reliability Engineering & Operations will help ensure the reliability and performance of our trading and clearing server environment.
The successful applicant must be able to solve problems creatively, communicate effectively, and work both independently and collaboratively.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with systems engineers, SRE's and Product engineering teams to monitor, maintain and troubleshoot our Markets systems technology platform.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to improve observability and alerting of our platform to enable data-driven business decisions, faster issue detection and incident resolution.
- Contribute to incident response and on-call rotation - own and resolve escalated incidents, identifying and mitigating root causes associated with distributed computing architecture (client server, intranet/internet), h/w platforms and resources: CPU, memory, virtualization, clustering and Cloud computing.
- Take accountability for delivery of moderately-complex incidents, problems and changes.
- Lead technical discussions for own work and present solutions and approaches.
- Support the migration of markets applications & infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Assist in automating tasks to enhance system scalability and reliability.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve system performance and efficiency
- Defines problems and describes the cause and effect relationship; gathers and compares data about the problems with supervision and documents the details
- Act as a mentor to L2 and L1 colleagues.
Skills:
- Experience with Linux & Windows-based systems and Cloud-based platform(s).
- Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.
- Excellent Effective communication and teamwork skills.
- Experience and knowledge of working with distributed systems.
- Exposure to working with metrics & monitoring: Splunk, Grafana etc.
- Experience working with Infrastructure as Code.
- Competent scripting skills (Python, Bash, etc.).
- Eagerness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced trading environment.
Desirable:
- Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform, GKE, and/or GCE.
- Basic knowledge of networking (HTTP/TCP/UDP/IP).
- Experience with Docker & Kubernetes
- Experience in Financial markets.
- Experience working in an agile environment.
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As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers together through its CME Globex® electronic trading platform and its trading facilities in New York and Chicago. CME Group also operates CME Clearing, one of the world’s leading central counterparty clearing provider in the world, which offers clearing and settlement services for exchange-traded contracts, as well as for over-the-counter derivatives transactions through CME ClearPort®. These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk in both listed and over-the-counter derivatives markets.
