Site Reliability Engineer III (Sun - Thur)

CME Group Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Description

CME Group is seeking an SRE III (Sun - Thur shift) to help, build, operate and scale systems in our Clearing portfolio. Working on products and technologies for CME’s clearing environments. The successful candidate will work alongside senior engineers to learn how we observe, monitor, automate, and improve Production service reliability and act as a mentor to junior colleagues. Applicants should have a keen interest in SRE and relish the challenge of operating Production systems. They will be a strong communicator, and may have previously worked in an SRE role, a software engineering role or a systems engineering role. This role is a Sun-Thursday shift.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the migration of Clearing applications to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and 7 day trading
• Participate in building observability, monitoring and alerting for key services - continuously improving our SLI & SLOs and observability data enabling faster issue detection and incident resolution
• Collaborate with senior engineers and product teams to ensure requirements are mutually understood, planned carefully and implemented safely
• Lead discussions for own work and present solution options and proposals
• Participate in incident response and management - engages with urgency in live incidents, takes ownership for minor incidents, ensures system recovery and contributes to post-mortems afterwards
• Identify toil and reduce through automation
• Contribute to DR and systems resiliency testing & improvements
• Contribute own ideas and reliability improvement suggestions to the Product backlog
• Act as a mentor to L2 and L1 SRE colleagues

What We’re Looking For

• Experience with Linux-based systems
• Experience with Cloud-based platform(s) - Google Cloud Platform, GCE, and/or GKE a bonus
• Understanding of application architectures and messaging protocols
• Some experience programming/scripting skills (Python, Bash, etc.)
• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Eagerness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced trading environment

Desirable

• Experience with metrics & monitoring, OpenTelemetry, UC4, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, etc
• Experience and knowledge of working with distributed systems
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Knowledge of networking (HTTP/TCP/UDP/IP)
• Experience in Financial markets
• Experience working in an agile environment

Why CME Group

• Be part of a global leader in financial services technology
• Work on cutting-edge technology in a collaborative and innovative culture
• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Opportunity to grow and advance your career in SRE with an organisation who is transforming to this approach

Join CME Group and play a crucial role in ensuring the stability and performance of our Clearing applications while contributing to the migration to Google Cloud Platform. Apply now to be a part of our dynamic SRE team!

Company Benefits

• Bonus Programme
• Equity Programme
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Private Medical and Dental coverage
• Mental Health Benefit Programme
• Group Pension Plan
• Income Protection
• Life Assurance
• Cycle To Work
• EV Car Benefit Scheme
• Gym Membership
• Family Leave
• Education Assistance – MBA/Advanced Degree/Bachelor Degree
• Ongoing Employee Development Training/Certification

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