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Role: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Equity Trading Platform
Location: New York, NY
Experience: 5 Years
Interview: Virtual, following the final round on-site
Job Overview
We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support mission-critical Equity Trading platforms and Fidessa OMS/EMS. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in production support, FIX Protocol, Linux/Unix, monitoring, automation, CI/CD, cloud technologies, and Capital Markets.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide L3 production support for Equity Trading platforms and Fidessa OMS/EMS.
- Support trading workflows including Order Routing, FIX Connectivity, DMA, Algorithmic Trading, Drop-Copy, and Client Connectivity.
- Troubleshoot complex application, infrastructure, and trading issues and perform RCA.
- Monitor and improve platform availability, performance, and reliability.
- Develop automation using Python, Bash/Shell, PowerShell, SQL, or Perl.
- Support CI/CD pipelines, deployments, and production releases.
- Create and maintain runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and support documentation.
- Collaborate with traders, developers, QA, infrastructure, Middle Office, and global support teams.
- Participate in incident management, post-mortems, and global on-call rotations.
Required Skills
- 5 years of SRE / Production Support experience.
- Strong Capital Markets / Equity Trading experience.
- Fidessa OMS/EMS and FIX Protocol experience.
- Linux/Unix and Windows Server.
- Python, Shell/Bash, SQL, PowerShell, or Perl.
- Monitoring tools such as Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Nagios, or ELK.
- Messaging: IBM MQ, Kafka, Tibco EMS, ActiveMQ, or AWS SQS/SNS.
- Jenkins, Git, Terraform, Ansible, Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow.
- AWS/Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, or Helm.
- Strong troubleshooting, incident management, RCA, and communication skills.
Preferred
- Experience supporting Front Office Equity Trading platforms.
- Knowledge of trade lifecycle, post-trade processing, DMA, and algorithmic trading.
- Experience in highly available 24x7 production environments.
- Strong understanding of SRE and operational excellence practices.
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