Site Reliability Engineer (Weekend Warrior)
Jump Trading9 hours ago
Sydney, AustraliaSenior
Responsibilities
- Own the production environment and drive performance, reliability, scalability, and operability improvements.
- Monitor and troubleshoot large-scale trading systems and exchange connectivity.
- Build and maintain production DevOps tooling for configuration management, process management, deployment, monitoring, data collection, and analysis.
- Analyze complex system problems and collaborate across the technology organization to improve system performance.
- Coordinate production changes and manage incidents with Risk Management and Operational Trading Support.
- Interact directly with traders to communicate technology changes, manage incidents, and troubleshoot problems.
- Work with the Clearing team to reconcile trades and position breaks.
- Assess operational risk for production changes and define and document processes and procedures.
- Provide mentorship and cross-training to other technical operations SREs.
- Participate in shared operational and periodic on-call duties.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- At least 5 years of relevant IT operations experience in areas such as DevOps, SRE, Linux Systems Engineering, or Network Engineering.
- 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.
- A rigorous, detail-oriented approach to operations and a strong sense of ownership and urgency.
- Ability to handle shared operational and periodic on-call duties and maintain reliable, predictable availability.
- Familiarity with C++ is helpful but not required.
About Jump Trading
Jump Trading is a privately held quantitative and high-frequency trading firm that designs low-latency systems and models to trade global markets across asset classes, including equities, futures, options, and cryptocurrencies. It trades its own capital rather than selling software or services, and operates from Chicago with offices across North America, Europe, and Asia; the firm was founded in 1999. Affiliates include Jump Crypto for digital assets and the venture arm Jump Capital.