
Engineer - Site Reliability
Cboe Global Markets3 days ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Manage configuration changes and production updates across trading, disaster recovery, and certification platforms.
- Respond to production incidents, perform triage and root cause analysis, and coordinate resolution with distributed engineering and operations teams.
- Monitor system health, troubleshoot technical issues, optimize performance, and maintain high availability of low-latency trading platforms.
- Operate bare-metal infrastructure, including hardware health, Linux operating system tuning, and Solarflare/Onload kernel-bypass networking.
- Investigate software defects and assist build teams with build and deployment issues.
- Create operational reports and analyze order-entry, market-data, and matching-engine logs using SQL queries.
- Support capacity planning for Cboe exchanges and business units.
- Develop, test, and maintain Python tools for task and system-health automation.
- Participate in weekend testing and follow-the-sun on-call technical support.
- Provide precise technical communication to stakeholders across time zones, cultures, and technical disciplines.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Experience or expertise in technical operations, UNIX shell, software engineering, systems administration, network administration, or database administration.
- Knowledge of SQL and Python, C++, or another programming language.
- Fluency in written and spoken English.
- Ability to work independently with little to no direct supervision.
- Familiarity with European markets and US equities, options, and/or futures market structures is strongly preferred.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, or Kubernetes is desirable.
- Experience with low-latency trading platforms, Linux tuning, and Solarflare/Onload is relevant to the role.
Benefits
- London-based role providing overnight and early-session coverage for US Global Trading Hours markets.
- Participation in weekend testing and global follow-the-sun on-call support.
- Opportunities for professional and personal development, internal mobility, networking, and manager-supported training.
Categories
Site Reliability