Apex Clearing Corporation - Portland, OR
posted 3 months ago
Apex Fintech Solutions (AFS) is seeking an Associate Site Reliability Engineer to join our team in Portland, Oregon. In this role, you will serve as a Distributed Systems Administrator, playing a crucial part in maintaining and supporting our message queueing infrastructure. This infrastructure is essential for enabling efficient and reliable communication across our systems, which is vital for processing millions of transactions daily. Your expertise will be instrumental in ensuring the availability, performance, and scalability of our messaging systems, which include Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, and GCP PubSub. As an Associate Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for implementing, configuring, and maintaining these message queueing systems. This includes performing routine system upgrades, patches, and optimizations to ensure optimal performance. You will also implement robust monitoring solutions to proactively identify issues and troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, responding promptly to system alerts and incidents to minimize downtime. Capacity planning will be a key aspect of your role, as you will conduct regular assessments to ensure that the messaging systems meet current and future demands. You will recommend and implement scalability enhancements as needed, while also enforcing security best practices and ensuring compliance with relevant industry standards and regulations. Collaboration is essential in this position, as you will work closely with development and infrastructure teams to integrate messaging systems into applications and services. You will analyze system performance and implement optimizations to enhance throughput and reduce latency, while also maintaining comprehensive documentation for messaging system configurations and procedures. Additionally, you will develop and maintain disaster recovery plans for messaging systems, conducting regular testing of recovery procedures to ensure system resilience.