Senior SRE (LATAM, EMEA)

We are seeking a Senior SRE engineer to join a team that works on a complex distributed architecture spanning physical machines and virtualizing on-prem hosts and cloud computing.

The role is to help set up centralized DevOps and help existing teams adopt more centralized best practices. The ideal candidate will be able to manage complexity and tackle problems across multiple stack layers as a part of a small team championing operational excellence.

Our environment is relaxed yet intellectually intense. Our teams are lean and agile, which means rapid product prototyping with immediate user feedback. We seek people who think in code, aspire to solve undiscovered computer science challenges, and are motivated by being around like-minded people. In fact, of the 600 employees globally, approximately 500 code daily.

Job (Project) Description

The customer develops and deploys systematic financial strategies across asset classes and global markets. We seek to produce high-quality predictive signals (alphas) through our proprietary research platform, employing financial strategies to exploit market inefficiencies. Our teams work collaboratively to drive the production of alphas and financial strategies, which are the foundation of a sustainable, global investment platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architecture and Automation: Design and deploy As-A-Service solutions using open-source software to automate system management, scaling, and monitoring.
• System Optimization: Develop tools to streamline deployment, monitoring, and incident management for large-scale, distributed environments.
• Collaboration Across Teams: Work with development and operations teams to design and implement software solutions that enhance service reliability. Contribute to the ongoing DevOps and Agile transformation.
• Monitoring & Incident Response: Set up, configure, and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to ensure real-time visibility into system performance. Participate in on-call rotations to respond to incidents and mitigate downtime.
• CI/CD & Infrastructure Management: Continuously improve CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitLab, Helm, Terraform, and Ansible to ensure fast, safe, and reliable deployments.
• Container Orchestration: Leverage container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes (K8S) to manage distributed systems at scale. Experience with Slurm or similar cluster management is a plus.
• Cloud and Automation Tools: Use cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc.) and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools to automate resource provisioning and scaling.

Type of work: Remote, full-time, hybrid.

English: B2 (Upper-Intermediate).