Job Title: Application Site Reliability Engineer III - Markets
CME Group is the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, offering futures and options across a wide range of industries. We are seeking a passionate SRE to join our dynamic team.
Job Description:
The Application Site Reliability Engineer III - Markets will help ensure the reliability and performance of our Markets trading and real-time post-trade systems; systems where latency, performance, and the capacity to seamlessly facilitate the busiest trading days in the world economy are critical requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
* Collaborate with senior SREs and Product engineering teams to monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot our Markets systems.
* Collaborate with Product teams to continuously improve observability and alerting of our applications to enable data-driven business decision, faster issue detection and incident resolution.
* Take accountability for delivery of moderately-complex features.
* Lead technical discussions for own work and present solutions and approaches.
* Support the migration of markets applications to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), ensuring a seamless transition.
* Assist in automating tasks to enhance system scalability and reliability.
* Contribute to incident response and on-call rotation - own and resolve escalated incidents, identifying and mitigating root causes.
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve system performance and efficiency Act as a mentor to L2 and L1 resources in the Application SRE department.
Requirements:
* Experience with Linux-based systems and Cloud-based platform(s).
* Experience and knowledge of working with distributed systems and working with Docker & Kubernetes Exposure to working with metrics & monitoring, Open Telemetry, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.
* Experience working with Infrastructure as Code 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 Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform, GCE, and/or GKE.
* Basic 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.