Calypso Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Quinnox Inc

United States

16 days ago

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Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Experience required

6 years minimum

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

www.dice.com

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon S3 Application Release Automation Bash Shell Cloud Engineering Cluster Analysis Continuous Integration DevOps Disaster Recovery Monitoring of Systems Identity and Access Management

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Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Python (Programming Language) Key Management Networking Basics Oracle (Applications) Performance Tuning Windows PowerShell Release Management Reliability Engineering Site Reliability Engineering Practices Prometheus Calypso Programming Language SQL Databases Data Logging Scripting Enterprise Software Applications System Availability Grafana Reliability of Systems Database Performance Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Gitlab Cloudformation Low Latency Deployment Automation Terraform Splunk Dynatrace

Job description

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

Requirements

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