• SREs must be able to investigate and handle issues in a live production environment to ensure uptime on their own or by escalating to the team for assistance. 
• Keep everyone informed about the health and viability of the platform by reporting known issues and status of ongoing investigations. 
• Identify and advocate for changes vital to the stability and supportability of the system.
• Mentor and advise teammates to ensure new features are efficient, highly available, and fault tolerant. 

Requirements 
 

• 5+ years of experience as an SRE, devops engineer, operations engineer or similar.
• Expert at Linux system administration and performance tuning. 
• Expert at designing and implementing secure and efficient networks. 
• Deep experience managing and incorporating IaaS networks (AWS) into hybrid networks. 
• Experience with Windows Active Directory and AWS IAM.
• Very comfortable with Python, web applications, and their ecosystems. 
• Comfortable with change management and monitoring software, with specific familiarity with Ansible, Zabbix, and Graylog a plus
• Familiarity with the ITIL process.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity mitigation and best practice a big plus.
• Willingness to dive in and assist teammates.
• Relevant experience from an exchange, proprietary trading firm or top tier bank a plus.
• Willingness to participate in the team’s on-call rotation. 
• Positive, entrepreneurial attitude.

Key tools
=== Linux administration ===

• Bash/ZSH/Korn Shell
• C/C++
• Perl/PHP/Python
• Ansible/Puppet/Chef
• Experience administrating:
• Java Applications
• Python Applications
• Ruby Applications
• Nginx / Apache
• Docker/LXC/LXD
• Oracle / MySQL / Postgres
• Redis / Mongo / ElasticSearch

=== Networking ===

• DNS
• DHCP
• TCP/IP
• Socket Programming
• Physical Networking
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals

=== Windows Administration ===

• Powershell
• C#
• Active Directory
• Group Policy
• SolarWinds