Senior SRE / Platform Engineer - NYC/Chicago- Global Prime Brokerage & Financing Platform

Exciting opportunity at one of the fastest growing financial services firms around the world. They offer prime brokerage, clearing and financing across traditional and digital assets, and are now looking to hire world-class engineers to help build on their success.

Responsibilities will include:
• Automate infrastructure and operational workflows using IaC with Terraform and AWS CDK.
• Develop & optimize CI/CD pipelines to improve software delivery for large-scale distributed systems using Amazon CodeBuild, GitHub Actions & Terraform Enterprise
• Implement and maintain observability solutions to establish real-time monitoring and proactive incident response using Datadog and AWS CloudWatch
• Ensure high availability and performance of relational and time-series databases (PostgreSQL/QuestDB), including replication, failover strategies, and query optimization

Skills & Experience Required
• Extensive experience with AWS, including EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, Lambda, MWAA, API Gateway, Route53, SSM, EFS, Backup, DynamoDB, Cloudfront, VPC, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, CodeArtifact, Config, Elasticache, and networking components in a highly available environment.
• Strong Python programming & automation skills in Python
• Proven experience with event streaming (i.e. Kafka/Kinesis)
• Deep understanding of distributed systems architecture, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and performance tuning
• Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g. Datadog, ELK, CloudWatch)
• Proven track record managing infrastructure with Terraform or AWS CDK
• Strong background in incident management, system reliability, and operational leadership, with experience conducting root cause analysis & implementing reliability improvements

Benefits & Incentives
• Build and scale mission-critical systems that power global financial markets
• Work in a technology-driven culture focused on automation, performance, and reliability
• Contribute to shaping the future of financial technology
• Engage with cutting-edge AWS, SRE, and observability tools in a fast-moving environment

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Contact

If you feel you are suitable for this role, don't hesitate to get in touch!

Max DeSoutter

max.desoutter@oxfordknight.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-desoutter/