Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

ICD Portal is a leader in electronic trading technology, seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to ensure the reliability and seamless operation of their global platform and AWS infrastructure. The role involves contributing to high-performance engineering, prioritizing security, and enhancing system reliability through various engineering practices.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to an Agile-Agentic organization, planning, grooming, story ideation that will lead to iterative improvements of our platform
• Prioritize security in all aspects of work, ensuring that it is the foundational consideration in every task performed
• Practice GitSecOps by contributing to the development and delivery of a highly available platform through automation
• Work to ensure the reliability and availability of systems
• Develop and maintain monitoring tools, analyze system performance, and implement solutions to improve overall system reliability
• Triage issues, assess risk, and prioritize remediation with service teams
• Take full ownership and drive resolution of production, quality engineering and development-related infrastructure issues
• Effectively communicate issue statuses to both R&D and non-technical audiences
• Ability to manage context switching when required
• Collaborate closely with software development teams to influence architecture and design decisions that impact the reliability and performance of systems
• Develop observability tools to fulfill the needs of SLOs
• Define and measure Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to ensure that the systems meet reliability standards
• Fulfill regular on-call duties to enable high system availability

Requirements:

• 6+ years of equivalent technology operations and engineering experience (ArgoCD, Kustomize, Pulumi, K8s, LGTM)
• 4+ years of scripting/coding experience in any modern language
• 4+ years as an SRE or similar individual-contributor role supporting public cloud (AWS) and cloud native technologies (Lambda, EKS, SNS, SMS, etc.)
• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
• Cloud-based virtualization expertise, particularly with AWS native services
• Strong multitasking skills in a dynamic environment
• Proven ability to work independently with a proactive, task-ownership approach, applying critical and creative thinking
• Collaborative mindset, adept at negotiating, influencing, and developing partnerships within a team environment
• Knowledge in information, network and Internet security, including threat modeling, cloud architecture, web protocols, and common attack surfaces
• Deep understanding of Linux/Unix tools and architecture
• Demonstrated proficiency in designing, implementing, and troubleshooting diverse network infrastructures, with comprehensive knowledge of protocols, performance and routing
• Python Preferred