Calypso Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Required Skills & Experience

• 6–10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering / DevOps / Production Support in capital markets platforms/enterprise applications
• [experience with Calypso V17/V18 is added advantage]
• Strong hands-on experience with:
  • Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, networking, IAM, VPC)
  • GitLab CI/CD pipelines
  • Scripting: PowerShell, Bash/Shell [Python is added advantage]
• Experience with:
  • Monitoring tools (e.g., ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk)
  • CI/CD and release automation
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation – preferred)
• Strong understanding of:
  • Linux/Unix systems
  • Networking fundamentals and cloud architecture
  • Basic Database concepts (Oracle/SQL)
• Experience supporting high-availability, low-latency enterprise systems

Roles & Responsibilities

• Own reliability, availability, and performance of Calypso across production and non-production environments
• Design, implement, and operate end-to-end SRE practices, including monitoring, alerting, incident management, and capacity planning
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, enabling automated build, deployment, and release of Calypso components
• Automate deployment and environment provisioning on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles
• Develop and maintain automation scripts using PowerShell, Shell (Bash), and Python for operational tasks, deployments, and monitoring
• Ensure high availability and resiliency of Calypso services through failover strategies, clustering, and disaster recovery planning
• Implement observability frameworks, including logging, metrics, and distributed tracing for proactive issue detection
• Define and monitor SLOs/SLIs/SLAs, ensuring system performance meets business expectations in a trading environment
• Lead incident management and root cause analysis (RCA), ensuring quick resolution of production issues and prevention of recurrence
• Optimize system performance, including JVM tuning, database performance, and application-level optimizations for high-volume trade processing
• Manage environment stability, including handling batch jobs, EOD processing, and trade lifecycle events in Calypso
• Collaborate with development, QA, and infrastructure teams to ensure smooth releases and production readiness
• Implement security best practices, including access controls, secrets management, and compliance with regulatory requirements
• Support release management and deployment strategies, including blue-green deployments, canary releases, and rollback mechanisms
• Drive continuous improvement and automation, reducing manual intervention and improving system reliability
• Maintain runbooks, playbooks, and operational documentation for support and incident handling
• Support production releases and provide hypercare support, ensuring system stability during critical business cycles

Pay

$90,000.00 - $100,000.00 per year

Work Location

Hybrid remote in New York, NY 10040