Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Eagle Seven is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and assist with the design, development, and administration of our trading and research systems. This role is a unique blend of software engineering and system administration that encourages significant interaction with traders, developers, and researchers. The successful candidate will be proactive, have a strong sense of ownership, and be driven to provide creative technical solutions to business problems.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and maintain highly automated, scalable and resilient infrastructure in support of our real-time trading operations
• Build solutions to automate and improve operational reliability and efficiency
• Collaborate with various stakeholders to develop automated, customizable and proactive monitoring and reporting systems
• Create integrations with various cloud platforms and on-premises data systems
• Develop and maintaining binary and text based ETL pipelines
• Assist the larger infrastructure team to develop system and network automations that make the team more efficient
• Responsible for development and maintenance of our HPC (High-performance computing) cloud-based infrastructure
• Develop various REST APIs and assisting with their integration into other projects
• Participate in 2nd line support; responding to incidents quickly and appropriately to facilitate diagnosis and resolution
• Stay current with the latest technology trends in the industry; propose, evaluate, and deploy innovative solutions
• Implement systems adhering to firm-wide security policies and industry best practices
• Interact with and administer SQL and NoSQL databases both locally and in the cloud

Requirements

Skills and Experience:

• 3+ years of experience in Systems, Networking, SRE, or DevOps engineering
• Strong programming experience in Python and shell scripting with a version control system such as Git required
• Strong command of infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Salt Project, Puppet, and related technologies
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Jenkins, Bamboo, GitHub actions, Gitlab CI/CD)
• Expertise in cloud technology (AWS and GCP experience preferred)
• Experience with containerization, both on-premises (e.g., Kubernetes) and in the public cloud (e.g., Google GKE, Amazon EKS)
• Advanced knowledge of TCP/IP networking, architecture, and core technologies (such as DNS, DHCP, HTTP, Routing, VPN)
• Knowledge of storage, architecture, and core technologies (such as NFS, block, storage, object storage)
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills and documentation/knowledge management skills

Benefits

Eagle Seven offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package to all full-time employees.

• Medical PPO and HMO coverage through BlueCross BlueShield
• Dental coverage through Principal
• Vision coverage through VSP
• 401k Retirement Savings Plan with Employer Match
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Flexible Spending Account
• Pre-tax Transit Benefits
• Complimentary Lunch and Beverages