Hudson River Trading (HRT) is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead a team of SREs within our growing Enterprise Technology group. The SRE team sits within Enterprise Technology and is responsible for operating and optimizing corporate productivity & collaboration infrastructure for the entire firm, both on-prem and in the cloud.
As one of Enterprise Technology’s first SREs, you will help lead our site reliability engineering practice in addition to ensuring the availability and reliability of systems within our stack. As the lead of the SRE team, you will define the team’s strategy, set its priorities, and help other engineers on your team succeed and grow.
In addition to experience managing or leading teams of engineers, this role requires a deep Linux operating system and application administration skill set, proficiency in Python, and solid experience with configuration management/IaC. Successful candidates should be hands-on and also have exceptional organizational, communication, and project management skills, as well as the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues.
Responsibilities
- Manage, support, assist and develop the members of your team
- Define the SRE team’s strategy, set smart priorities, demonstrate excellent judgement around when to be flexible and when to hold steady
- Break down complexity, iterate, and communicate progress to a wide variety of leads and stakeholders
- Enable transparency and high development velocity within the firm while maintaining a high bar for security. Find ways to reduce user friction, and make sure HRTers have access to the tools and data they need when they need it
- Manage on-premise containerized web services, and a multitude of bridge services, integrations and batch processes that interconnect the elements of our productivity ecosystem
- Proactively eliminate sources of operational work. Engineering not firefighting
- Automate and troubleshoot a broad range of technical infrastructure both on-prem and in the cloud
- Develop and implement monitoring solutions to ensure high system uptime and reliability
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in site reliability engineering or related disciplines
- 2+ years of experience leading a technical team
- Proficiency with Python
- Experience managing and monitoring containerized infrastructure
- Experience working with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or ArgoCD
- Expert experience with IaC and configuration management tools such as Terraform, SaltStack, Chef, Puppet, or Ansible
Annual base salary range of $200,000 to $275,000. Pay (base and bonus) may vary depending on job-related skills and experience. A sign-on and discretionary performance bonus may be provided as part of the total compensation package, in addition to company-paid medical and/or other benefits.
Culture
Hudson River Trading (HRT) brings a scientific approach to trading financial products. We have built one of the world's most sophisticated computing environments for research and development. Our researchers are at the forefront of innovation in the world of algorithmic trading.
At HRT we welcome a variety of expertise: mathematics and computer science, physics and engineering, media and tech. We’re a community of self-starters who are motivated by the excitement of being at the cutting edge of automation in every part of our organization—from trading, to business operations, to recruiting and beyond. We value openness and transparency, and celebrate great ideas from HRT veterans and new hires alike. At HRT we’re friends and colleagues – whether we are sharing a meal, playing the latest board game, or writing elegant code. We embrace a culture of togetherness that extends far beyond the walls of our office.
Feel like you belong at HRT? Our goal is to find the best people and bring them together to do great work in a place where everyone is valued. HRT is proud of our diverse staff; we have offices all over the globe and benefit from our varied and unique perspectives. HRT is an equal opportunity employer; so whoever you are we’d love to get to know you.
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