Site Reliability Engineer Lead - Enterprise Technology

Full-time - Senior

NY

About the position

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.

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

Requirements

• 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

Benefits

• 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
• Company-paid medical and/or other benefits