Senior Site Reliability Engineer
A leading global financial technology firm is looking to bring on a Senior Platform Engineer to help design, build, and scale the infrastructure that supports mission‑critical trading and data systems. This role is ideal for engineers who thrive in fast‑moving, high‑performance environments and value reliability, automation, and strong technical execution.
Responsibilities
* Automate infrastructure and operational workflows using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and AWS CDK.
* Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines using CodeBuild, GitHub Actions, or similar tools to support large-scale distributed systems.
* Implement and maintain observability solutions with platforms like Datadog and CloudWatch to enable proactive monitoring and incident response.
* Ensure availability and performance of relational and time-series databases such as PostgreSQL and QuestDB, including replication and failover strategies.
* Deploy and manage in-memory caching systems such as Redis.
* Maintain and scale distributed SQL databases such as CockroachDB or YugabyteDB.
* Define and enforce reliability practices, including SLOs/SLIs, automated remediation, and post‑incident analysis.
* Operate workflow orchestration environments using Apache Airflow.
* Manage distributed event‑streaming systems such as Apache Kafka.
* Automate workflows and integrations across internal tools such as Slack and Jira.
* Implement security best practices for IAM, networking, and encryption in cloud-based environments.
* Maintain high code quality standards using tools such as SonarQube.
Qualifications
* Extensive hands‑on experience with AWS services in production environments, including EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, Lambda, MWAA, API Gateway, Route53, SSM, EFS, DynamoDB, CloudFront, VPC, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, CodeArtifact, Config, ElastiCache, and Backup.
* Strong programming and automation experience in Python, including building CLI tools and operational automation scripts.
* Experience with event‑streaming technologies such as Kafka or Kinesis.
* Deep understanding of distributed systems, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and performance tuning.
* Hands‑on experience with observability tools such as Datadog, ELK, or CloudWatch.
* Proven experience managing infrastructure with Terraform, AWS CDK, or comparable IaC tools.
* Experience managing and optimizing relational databases, including schema design and query tuning.
* Strong background in incident management, root‑cause analysis, and improving system reliability.
* Preferred experience in high‑performance computing, financial systems, low‑latency environments, or other mission‑critical domains.
Nice to Have
* Experience with data warehousing technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, or Redshift.
* Experience in data engineering or ETL pipeline development.
Why Join
* Build and scale infrastructure supporting globally distributed, high‑throughput systems.
* Join a technical engineering culture focused on automation, performance, and reliability.
* Work with modern cloud, SRE, observability, and distributed systems technologies.
* Be part of a fast‑moving environment where engineering quality and operational excellence are top priorities.
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