Capco

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Principal Consultant

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Base Salary

$146k - $183k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Provide front-line SRE and production support for equity trading systems and Fidessa flows, including order routing, FIX connectivity, client onboarding, drop-copy, DMA, algorithmic trading, and high-touch/low-touch workflows.
  • Investigate and resolve application, infrastructure, connectivity, and trading workflow issues, including incident response, root-cause analysis, post-mortems, and permanent remediation.
  • Build and enhance monitoring and observability across applications, infrastructure, databases, messaging, and trading flows to support performance tuning, capacity planning, and fault isolation.
  • Develop automation, scripts, operational tooling, and CI/CD capabilities to reduce manual effort and improve deployments, releases, and production checkouts.
  • Partner with business, development, QA, infrastructure, and global support teams to improve production readiness, documentation, operational standards, and platform stability.
  • Participate in late-evening, weekend, and on-call support rotations.

Requirements

  • Strong production support experience with front-office trading systems, ideally in equities or capital markets, including Fidessa, OMS/EMS platforms, order routing, client connectivity, and post-trade processing.
  • Strong understanding of the trade lifecycle and FIX Protocol, including FIX 4.2, FIX 4.4, FIX 5.0, message analysis, session behavior, sequence resets, rejects, cancels/replaces, drop copy, and client onboarding flows.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills across Linux/Unix, Windows Server, networking, databases, messaging, and application layers.
  • Scripting or automation experience using Python, Bash/Shell, SQL, PowerShell, or Perl.
  • Experience with monitoring and observability technologies such as Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Nagios, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, or ELK Stack.
  • Clear communication, prioritization, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to collaborate with traders, business users, technology teams, infrastructure teams, and stakeholders.
  • Experience supporting cash equities and additional asset classes such as futures, options, ETFs, swaps, bonds, or derivatives is preferred.
  • Knowledge of TCP, UDP, multicast/unicast, latency analysis, firewall flows, connectivity troubleshooting, and packet-level diagnostics is preferred.
  • Experience with CI/CD and DevOps tooling such as Jenkins, Bamboo, Bitbucket, Git, GitHub Actions, JFrog, Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, ServiceNow, JIRA, or Confluence is preferred.
  • Familiarity with AWS or Azure and container platforms and tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Terraform, Helm Charts, or Lens is preferred.
  • Experience supporting compliance, legal, audit, or regulatory queries related to trading activity, client flows, production logs, or production events is preferred.

Benefits

  • Permanent position based in New York with hybrid work indicated.
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • 401k match.
  • Maternity and paternity leave and dependent care support.
  • Tuition reimbursement and wellness reimbursement.
  • Working Advantage discounted marketplace, HSA, FSA, and commuter benefits.
  • Continuous learning, training, and industry certifications.

Tech Stack

AnsibleAWSAzureBambooBashDatadogDockerGitGitHub ActionsGrafanaJenkinsKubernetesLinuxNagiosOpenShiftPerlPowerShellPrometheusPythonSplunkSQLTerraform

Categories

Site Reliability
Capco

About Capco

5,001-10,000 employees

Capco, a Wipro company, is a global technology and management consultancy specializing in driving digital transformation in the financial services industry. With a growing client portfolio comprising of over 100 global organizations, Capco operates at the intersection of business and technology by combining innovative thinking with unrivalled industry knowledge to deliver end-to-end data-driven solutions and fast-track digital initiatives for banking and payments, capital markets, wealth and asset management, insurance, and the energy sector. Capco’s cutting-edge ingenuity is brought to life through its Innovation Labs and award-winning Be Yourself At Work culture and diverse talent.

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