Site Reliability Engineer - Trading Platform and Automation
Location: London
Our client is a leading global quantitative investment firm, renowned for its technology-driven approach and scientific mindset. They combine data, research, and cutting-edge engineering to deliver exceptional performance across global markets. This is an opportunity for a talented Site Reliability Engineer to join a team that thrives on solving complex challenges and building systems that power trading at scale.
As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in evolving and scaling a high-performance trading platform. Your focus will be on automation, resilience, and reliability, ensuring systems run at peak efficiency in a fast-paced environment. You will design and implement tools for deployment, monitoring, and incident response, applying SRE principles to maintain world-class service health. Collaboration is key: you will work closely with developers, quantitative researchers, and platform teams to shape the future of trading infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
*Build automation for operations, deployment, monitoring, and incident response
*Apply SRE fundamentals (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets) to improve service health
*Deliver system designs focused on resilience and performance
*Collaborate across teams to evolve systems that support global trading
What We’re Looking For
*Hands-on experience in SRE or production engineering roles
*Strong Python skills for infrastructure tooling and automation
*Deep understanding of monitoring, incident response, and system architecture
*Experience designing and delivering scalable systems in production environments
*Proficiency with Linux/Unix
*Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration