Equity Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description
Position Title: Site Reliable Engineer (SRE) for Equity Trading Platform
Job Description
Jefferies is seeking for Site Reliability Engineer to play an instrumental role in supporting Equity Front office trading application, risk and middle office real time products, developed and used for Equity Cash and ETS application.

As part of the wider platform engineering team, you will be working closely with the Business users interactively throughout the day, along with technical, analysis and testing colleagues. Investigation and resolution of the work items at hand will require competent technical skills and a keen intellect. The business is a growth area, with current investments taking place in all the technology, business and middle office areas.

Job Duties:

• Front Line Site Reliable Engineering and Support functions for Equity trading systems used by Jefferies clients as well as internal users.
• Build monitoring tools for application and infrastructure components.
• Implement and manage scalable infrastructure using cloud-native technologies and tools.
• Gather and analyze metrics from operating systems as well as applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding.
• Partner with business, development and infrastructure teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployment processes.
• Expedient deployment of new systems. Capacity planning, Platform Management, and support for increasing volumes and business growth.
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation.
• Collaborate with Application team to establish and enforce production and development standards.
• Document procedures, best practices and troubleshooting FAQs.
• Resolve complex application and technical problems.
• Debugging the system and fixing the production related issues.
• Escalate / follow-up on permanent fix for development related issues.
• Lead incident response efforts and post-mortem analysis to prevent future occurrences.
• Handles complex operational tasks and recommends process and technology changes.
• Global support and includes weekend availability to troubleshoot production related issues and perform checkouts.
• Ability to work both independently and in groups in an energetic, diverse environment.
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure 24/7 system availability and support.
• Support compliance and legal queries.

Experience/skills Required:

• Strong experience in Windows and Linux/Unix services.
• Strong experience in scripting language like Power shell, Python and SQL.
• Strong Knowledge of monitoring tools – Nagios, Splunk, OTEL, Datadog
• Strong Knowledge of FIX protocol
• Strong Domain skills - Must have working experience in Capital Markets across modules and instruments especially – CASH, ETS, Bonds, Options, Futures, Swaps products
• Experience in BFSI (Banking and Financial Industry) Domain applications with a proper understanding of the Trade Lifecycle.
• Excellent communication, time management and project management skills.

The Salary Range for this role is $150,000-$225,000

About Us
Jefferies is a leading global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm that provides advisory, sales and trading, research, and wealth and asset management services. With more than 40 offices around the world, we offer insights and expertise to investors, companies, and governments.

At Jefferies, we are committed to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.

Jefferies is committed to creating and sustaining a workforce that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds to apply. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, pregnancy, age, medical condition, physical or mental disability, marital status, domestic partner status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.

The salary offered will take into consideration an individual's experience level and qualifications. In addition to salary, Jefferies Financial Group is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible, full-time employees or part-time employees, who are scheduled to work at least 30 hours or more per week, including an annual discretionary incentive and retention bonus, competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Jefferies also offers paid time off packages that include planned time off (e.g., vacation), unplanned time off (e.g., sick leave), and paid holidays, and for full time employees, paid parental leave.