Site Reliability Engineer | Weekend Warrior
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Overview
Join Jump Trading as a Site Reliability Engineer in Amsterdam, focusing on managing real-time production trading environments with a unique 4-day workweek schedule. Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.
What You'll Do
- •Own the production environment, driving performance, reliability, and operability through continuous improvement
- •Proactively monitor and troubleshoot large-scale trading systems and exchange connectivity
- •Build and maintain our site reliability toolkit for the production trading system including configuration management, process management, deployment, monitoring, data collection, and analysis
- •Leverage firm-wide metrics to improve scalability and system performance
- •Partner with traders, Risk Management, and Operational Trading Support teams to communicate technology changes, coordinate deployments, and manage incidents
- •Collaborate across the technology organization to analyse and troubleshoot complex system problems
- •Work with Clearing team to reconcile trades and position breaks
- •Assess and manage operational risk when deploying changes to production
- •Define and document processes and procedures
- •Provide mentorship and cross-training to other technical operations engineers
- •Additional responsibilities as business needs evolve
Benefits include
- •Private Medical, Vision and Dental Insurance
- •Travel Medical Insurance
- •Group Pension Scheme
- •Group Life Assurance and Income Protection Schemes
- •Paid Parental Leave
- •Parking and Commuter Benefits
- •Annual Base Salary Range: €150.000 - €175.000 EUR
Skills You’ll Need
- •Degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent professional experience
- •At least 5+ years of relevant experience in IT operations (DevOps, SRE, Linux Systems Engineering, or Network Engineering)
- •At least 3+ years of experience with Python and shell scripting
- •Strong understanding of the Linux operating system, including network and system configuration, kernel internals, scheduling, and performance tuning
- •Strong understanding of networking concepts such as routing, multicast, LLDP, VLANs, and Ethernet
- •C++ experience is a plus
- •Rigorous, detail-oriented approach to operations
- •Deep sense of ownership and ability to meet business priorities with urgency
- •Reliable and predictable availability
- •Ability to handle shared operational and periodic on-call duties