Site Reliability Engineer III (Fintech)

TL;DR

Site Reliability Engineer III (DevOps/Fintech): Building, operating, and scaling systems for the CME Globex trading platform with an accent on low-latency performance and rock-solid reliability. Focus on designing observability solutions, eliminating toil through automation, and architecting the migration to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Location: Hybrid working in Belfast, UK

Company

hirify.global is the world’s leading derivatives marketplace, providing critical financial infrastructure for global markets.

What you will do

• Design, build, and refine monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions to improve SLIs and SLOs.
• Lead reliability-focused projects from design to implementation, ensuring scalability and resilience of new features.
• Proactively identify and eliminate operational toil through robust automation.
• Manage incident response and lead blameless post-mortems to ensure rapid system recovery.
• Mentor L1 and L2 SREs through code reviews and paired work.
• Contribute to the architectural design for the migration to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of professional experience in SRE, DevOps, Software, or Systems Engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience administering and troubleshooting Linux-based production systems.
• Proficient programming skills in Python or Go for automating complex operational tasks.
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and solve complex problems autonomously.
• Excellent communication skills to articulate technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Must be able to work in a hybrid setup in Belfast, UK

Nice to have

• Deep experience with GCP (GCE, GKE, cloud networking).
• Expertise in monitoring stacks like Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
• Practical knowledge of building large-scale distributed systems.
• Advanced experience with Kubernetes and Docker in production.
• Solid understanding of networking protocols (HTTP, TCP/UDP, IP).
• Experience in financial markets, low-latency systems, or message-oriented middleware.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive financial incentives including Bonus, Equity, and Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
• Private Medical, Dental, and Mental Health benefit programs.
• Future security via Group Pension Plan and Life Assurance.
• Practical perks: Cycle to Work, EV Car Benefit Scheme, and Gym Membership.
• Education assistance for MBA, Bachelor's, or Advanced Degrees and ongoing certification training.
• Flexible environment with hybrid working and family leave.