Details of the Division and Team:
We are seeking an experienced and highly capable Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support the Rates & Credit and broader Fixed Income Currencies businesses. This role is pivotal in ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of our real-time trading platforms. You will apply SRE principles to proactively manage system health, drive operational excellence, and collaborate closely with senior traders, developers, and cross-functional teams to optimise front-to-back workflows. As a technical engineer, you will be responsible for maintaining platform availability, resolving complex issues, and championing automation and observability initiatives. Your ability to work well within a team, communicate effectively across business and technology stakeholders, and operate under pressure in a fast-paced trading environment will be critical to success.
Ideal Candidate:
- A problem solver who thrives in high-pressure environments and balances technical expertise with business insight.
- Strong communicator, capable of discussing complex technical issues to a range of stakeholders.
- Deep understanding of the critical role support plays in a large, complex technology divisions within financial organisations.
- Passionate about automation, with hands-on experience in building tools that reduce manual effort and operational risk.
- An accomplished technical professional that leads by example.
What we will offer you:
A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce is better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its center.
You can expect:
- Competitive salary with superannuation paid over and above fixed pay
- 4 weeks annual leave, plus one week additional leave*, one week wellbeing leave* and the option to purchase leave (*subject to eligibility criteria)
- Salary packaging for car parking, motor vehicles, taxis and superannuation
- Parental leave benefits including 26 weeks paid leave for primary carer and 16 weeks paid leave for non-primary carer and Childcare Assistance Payment
- A range of benefits including online employee discount program, annual flu vaccinations, discounted private health insurance, employee referral program
- Insurance cover for life, total disablement and salary continuance
- Executive health checks for Directors and Managing Directors
- Matched giving and paid volunteer leave
Your key responsibilities:
- Incident Management & Post Mortems : Rapidly respond to production incidents affecting the trading platform with data-driven decision-making, minimising downtime and financial impact. This includes identifying, investigating, and resolving application/infrastructure issues, ensuring timely and concise communication updates, and leading root cause analysis with blameless post-mortems. Drive strategic follow-ups and automation opportunities to reduce repeat occurrences of issues.
- Availability, Monitoring & Automation: Maintain the overall availability of the trading platform. Enhance application health monitoring, implement automation to reduce manual intervention, and improve system resilience, with a key focus on conducting and observing Start of Week/Day checks and acting on monitoring alerts. Set up new and maintain existing monitoring environments, and maintain oversight of high-profile technology processes, particularly those relating to exchange obligations.
- Change & Release Management : Implement application releases and maintain oversight of infrastructure patching schedules (may include some Out of Hours activities). Enforce and adhere to change management policies.
- Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity : Actively participate in Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Plan exercises (may include some Out of Hours activities).
- Collaboration & Project Support : Partner with development teams, Project Managers, and Functional Business Analysts to design, deploy, and introduce new functionality and enhancements to the trading platform, ensuring fault-tolerant, scalable solutions aligned with business goals. Respond to user queries and requests in a timely manner.
- Governance & Compliance : Enforce and adhere to incident and problem management policies, as well as bank-specific non-financial risk frameworks.
- Mentorship & Continuous Improvement : Support the growth of junior team members and promote a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement. Actively participate in local, regional, and global process improvement initiatives.
- Wider Technology & Bank Initiatives : Engage in wider Technology & Bank-wide initiatives such such as Engineering Days, Hackathons, Volunteering, Lunch and Learns, Data Science challenges, and Employee Resource Group events.
Your skills and experience:
- A bachelor's degree or higher, preferably in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM).
- 5yrs+ proven industry experience in a Production Support, Site Reliability Engineer, or DevOps role within a Trading or Financial Services Environment.
- Familiarity with Agile software development concepts and wider processes within the Software Development Life Cycle
- Strong technical skills in Linux/Unix systems, SQL, shell scripting, and programming languages such as Python, Java, etc.
- Strong experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Geneos, OpenTelemetry).
- Familiarity with cloud platforms, containerisation (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker), and CI/CD pipelines.
- Have a strong understanding of the trade lifecycle and fundamental trading systems. Knowledge of Fixed Income and related products such as Rates, Credit and Repo.
- Self-motivated, proactive in nature, and ability to work independently; as well as collaboratively in a global organisation.
How we’ll support you:
- Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities
- Coaching and support from experts in your team
- A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
- A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs
- Training and development to help you excel in your career
About us and our teams:
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