Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Our Partner is one of the leading absolute return/hedge fund managers, overseeing assets on behalf of institutional investors from around the world, including pension funds, endowments, insurance companies, government agencies, private banks and fund of funds.

Brevan Howard was founded in 2002, and launched its flagship global macro strategy in April 2003. It currently manages over $30bn and engages predominantly in discretionary directional and relative value trading in fixed income and FX markets, as well as the recently launched BH Digital, a division within Brevan Howard to manage crypto and digital asset strategies.

The firm currently employs over 1,000 personnel worldwide, including over 300 investment professionals. This global presence gives Brevan Howard the ability to identify and source attractive investment opportunities, as well as investment management talent wherever they may be. Brevan Howard has won several industry awards for excellence in risk management, operational robustness and investment performance.

The firm’s main hubs are in London, Jersey, Geneva, New York, Austin, Hong Kong, Singapore and Abu Dhabi.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you are responsible for designing, building, and operating our infrastructure, middleware, and CI/CD systems to ensure our teams have access to the best tools available. We are currently seeking an experienced SRE to deliver insights from massive scale data in real time and help build an observable, maintainable platform.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, operate and support the infrastructure, middleware and internal services, while seeking to improve their performance, availability, scalability, latency and efficiency.
• Be a SRE subject matter expert across multiple functionally aligned development teams supporting existing code and migrating to our next-generation software platforms.
• Work alongside development teams to develop and design scalable and high available services and establish an effective build framework for continuous deployment and self-service automation 
• Own critical parts of our software development life-cycle such as build/deploy. 
• As part of an on-call rotation, work on incident resolution and engage various teams (including 3rd parties) for support escalation. 

KEY REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of experience in embedded DevOps/SRE roles working directly with developers.  
• 2+ years of experience in working with the major cloud providers (Azure, AWS)
• 1+ years of experience working with Apache Airflow
• Clear understanding of SRE principles
• Should have experience in Terraform. 
• Understanding of how to use OpenTelemetry data (logs, metrics, traces).
• CI/CD – comfortable with building pipelines in e.g. GitHub Actions/GitLab/TeamCity/Jenkins/ Concourse.
• A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks.  
• Self-driven and takes ownership very seriously and has a demonstrated mindset for automation.  
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science or related field.