What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Site Reliability Engineer position at MarketAxess?
About Us
MarketAxess is on a journey to digitally transform one of the world's largest financial markets, enabling the shift from analog, phone-based trading to a fully electronic marketplace. Why does this matter? Because our platform makes trading fixed-income more accessible, ultimately improving transparency, efficiency, and competition in the marketplace. Changing the way an established industry transacts is no easy feat. There will be twists and turns, because no one's ever done this before. But now, more than 2,000 clients around the world rely on our solutions, and that number is only expected to grow in the years ahead. We know where we're going. How we get there is up to us. Join us and help Take Us There.
The Role
We are seeking an experienced Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our next-Gen Trading Platform who has a passion and prior expertise in building a next-gen cloud based, streaming microservices at scale and power our application modernization plans.
You should be passionate about technology, software engineering, quality, and innovatively addressing technical problems. You will work with the team to establish SRE best practices and procedures collaborate on technical solutions and ensure exceptional software engineering practices, quality, and good documentation.
It's essential to be willing to take on new skills to meet the shifting demands of accelerating our modernization efforts to the public cloud and Kubernetes world. Feedback from your users should be something that you look forward to, as you will work closely with internal users to incorporate their needs into your roadmap and use it as a measure of success. A critical success factor is being viewed as a trusted partner and collaborator.
We embrace a culture of collaboration and experimentation while striving and encouraging all team members to focus on continuous improvement and learning. We openly welcome diverse perspectives and people who are not afraid to challenge assumptions and prior ways of working. Otherwise, how do we innovate, learn and grow as a team and individuals?
How You'll Help Take Us There
- Lead a team of developers to define and implement SRE best practices
- Build a culture of automation, identifying manual tasks and creating robust and innovative solutions to remove toil
- Integrate and operate observability products that support compliance requirements and enable the team to better understand the state of their services and apps in production and help other teams do the same
- Provide technical leadership and guidance around containerization of applications and DevOps best practices
- Perform analytics on previous incidents to better predict issues and take proactive actions
- Develop, monitor, and alert on SLIs / SLOs
- Grow our agile development culture through use of excellent engineering skills and a deep knowledge of DevOps methodologies
- Own the regular reviews of systems performance metrics with the stakeholders
- Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in internal & external technology communities, mentoring other members of the engineering community
- Socialize SRE culture across teams in the organization
- Build and maintain CI / CD pipelines for applications and products
- Author Release / Deployment Plans and Rollback procedures
- Develop and scale engineering best practices across the organization through automation, auditability, automated testing, infrastructure and policy as code
- Establishing cross-training initiatives to provide enhanced automated support capabilities
What We're Looking for
What You Can Expect from Us
For job positions in NYC, NY, and other locations where required, the estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is $240,000 USD to $260,000 USD. Actual salary may vary depending on job-related factors, which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. You may also be eligible for annual cash incentives, equity, and other benefit programs.
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Salary : $240,000 - $260,000
