Site Reliability Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Site Reliability Engineer (Fintech): Providing technical support and operational oversight to ensure resiliency and high availability of critical trading platforms with an accent on platform engineering, configuration management, and performance tuning. Focus on troubleshooting complex issues, driving automation, and supporting capacity planning.

Location: London, United Kingdom or Amsterdam, Netherlands. Flex/Hybrid

Company

hirify.global is a company that delivers cutting-edge trading and investment solutions to investors around the world.

What you will do

• Provide technical support and operational oversight to ensure resiliency and high availability of critical trading platforms.
• Monitor systems, troubleshoot issues end-to-end, perform root cause analysis, and drive long-term stability improvements.
• Analyze performance of real-time trading systems, investigate software defects, and support build and deployment activities.
• Operate and maintain low-latency bare-metal infrastructure, including hardware health and Linux OS tuning.
• Drive automation and toil reduction through Python-based tooling and manage operational batch workflows.
• Support weekend testing activities and participate in a 24×7 on-call rotation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience as a systems administrator, software developer, SRE, or within a technical operations role in a financial or mission-critical infrastructure environment.
• 3+ years of hands-on Linux administration and troubleshooting in bare-metal, low-latency infrastructure environments.
• 2+ years of proficiency in Python, SQL, and Linux shell scripting for operational automation and data analysis.
• Working knowledge of network administration concepts including TCP/IP, multicast, NIC tuning, and low-latency networking principles.
• Vigorous desire to learn about ultra-low latency financial platforms.

Nice to have

• Previous experience supporting ultra-low latency financial platforms.
• Ability to read and evaluate C++.
• Network Administration experience.
• Exposure to cloud environments such as AWS and hybrid infrastructure models.

Culture & Benefits

• The SRE team is hiring for a SRE Engineer - 6 month fixed term contract