Site Reliability Engineer III (Tue - Sat)

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Responsibilities

• CME Group is seeking a SRE III (Tuesday - Saturday) to help, build, operate and scale systems in our Markets portfolio. Markets SREs work on products and applications related to CME's Globex trading platform. Our systems deliver an exceptional combination of low-latency performance and rock-solid reliability to seamlessly handle the world’s busiest trading days. 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. They will have a keen interest in SRE and enjoy the cut-and-thrust 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.
• 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
• Participate in on-call rotation
• 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
• Support the migration of markets applications to Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Act as a mentor to L2 and L1 SRE colleagues

What Were 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
• Competent 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, 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 that is transforming to this approach

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
• Hybrid Working

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