Sr Site Reliability Engineer - Markets (Tue - Sat), Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Sr Site Reliability Engineer - Markets (Tue - Sat)

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**CME Group: Where Futures are Made**CME Group is the world’s leading derivatives marketplace. But who we are goes deeper than that. Here, you can impact markets worldwide. Transform industries. And build a career by shaping tomorrow. We invest in your success and you own it – all while working alongside a team of leading experts who inspire you in ways big and small. Problem solvers, difference makers, trailblazers. Those are our people. And we’re looking for more.At CME Group, we embrace our employees' unique experiences and skills to ensure that everyone’s perspectives are acknowledged and valued. As an equal-opportunity employer, we consider all potential employees without regard to any protected characteristic.**Important Notice:** Recruitment fraud is on the rise, with scammers using misleading promises of job offers and interviews to solicit money and personal information from job seekers. CME Group adheres to established procedures designed to maintain trust, confidence and security throughout our recruitment process. Learn more .CME Group is seeking a **Senior SRE (Tuesday to 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 have a strong understanding of SRE principles and practices, enjoy the cut-and-thrust of operating Production systems, be a strong communicator, and may have previously worked in an SRE role, a software engineering role, a DevOps role or a systems engineering role.**About the role:**As a Senior SRE you'll work closely with Staff SREs and Product leaders to drive improvements in the reliability of our systems.**Key Responsibilities:*** Collaborate with SRE leadership and product development teams to define what “reliable” means for our systems, eliciting and documenting SLIs and SLOs via user-journey distillations* Act as a partner to product teams, delivering key observability, monitoring and alerting improvements - continuously improving our SLI & SLOs and observability data enabling faster issue detection and incident resolution* Takes accountability for delivery of significant changes - ensuring delivery risks and dependencies are managed with regular proactive communication* Drive reliability backlog discussions with key stakeholders - identify reliability risks and influence prioritisation* Design automation for deployment, scaling and recovery* Lead major incident response investigations - demonstrates urgency, puts customer first, ensures system recovery, and leads post-mortems afterwards* Participate in on-call rotation* Run Production review meetings based on data showing performance against SLOs, error budgets and incidents* Contribute to DR and systems resiliency testing & improvements* Mentor and guide junior SREs to improve reliability engineering culture* Mentor and guide product team engineers on SRE practices - being an advocate for reliability as a practice, not just a role* Support the migration of markets applications to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), ensuring a seamless transition* Stay informed on emerging technologies & latest industry trends, and recognise opportunities for CME Group**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* Strong coding capabilities (scripting languages Python, Bash, etc.); Java a bonus* Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities* Excellent communication and teamwork skills across disciplines* Adaptable and flexible, demonstrating a positive and proactive approach towards change* A growth mindset; eagerness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced trading environment.* Experience driving reliability improvements across a team or service**Desirable*** Previous experience working in a DevOps or SRE role.* Previous experience working with metrics & monitoring, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, etc* Experience and knowledge of working with distributed systems and working with Docker & Kubernetes* Good knowledge of networking (HTTP/TCP/UDP/IP)* Experience in Financial markets* Experience with REST services and message-oriented middleware* 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 approachJoin CME Group and play a crucial role in ensuring the stability and performance of our Markets 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* Hybrid Working#LI-RK2#LI-Hybrid#nijobs.com### Employee Experience #J-18808-Ljbffr

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Location:: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Salary:: £100,000 - £125,000
Job Type:: FullTime
Category:: Engineering

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