Site Reliability Engineer (Weekend Warrior)

Location: Sydney, Australia

Company

hirify.global develops research-driven technologies for global financial markets and operates production infrastructure for trading systems.

What you will do

• Own the production environment and improve performance, reliability, scalability, and operability.
• Monitor and troubleshoot large-scale trading systems and exchange connectivity.
• Build and maintain DevOps tooling for configuration and process management, deployment, monitoring, data collection, and analysis.
• Collaborate with developers, traders, exchanges, Risk Management, Operational Trading Support, and Clearing teams to investigate issues, coordinate changes, manage incidents, and reconcile trades and position breaks.
• Assess operational risk for production changes and define and document procedures.
• Mentor and cross-train technical operations SREs.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• At least 5+ years of relevant IT operations experience in DevOps, SRE, Linux Systems Engineering, Network Engineering, or a similar role.
• At least 3+ years of Python and shell scripting experience.
• Strong understanding of Linux, including network and system configuration, kernel internals, scheduling, and performance tuning.
• Strong understanding of networking concepts including routing, multicast, LLDP, VLAN tagging, and Ethernet.
• Rigorous, detail-oriented approach to operations; strong ownership and urgency.
• Ability to handle shared operational and periodic on-call duties with reliable and predictable availability.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with C++.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time experienced role based in Sydney, Australia.
• Work involves shared operational and periodic on-call duties.
• Collaboration with traders, operations, exchanges, developers, Risk Management, Operational Trading Support, and Clearing teams.
• Culture emphasizes innovation, creativity, intellectual honesty, collaboration, and mutual respect.

Hiring process

• The posting may require contacting info@jumptrading.com to confirm that the role is still open and ensure the application is received.