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Selby Jennings has partnered with a top hedgefund to find the right front office SRE. Ideally, this person will be between 3-7 YOE, and be strongly tilted towards python/SWE development with experience in observability and reliability.

This role will primarily involve working with a cohesive team of engineers, developers, and trade support teams to build world class systems and the necessary tools to maintain and constantly improve. The position calls for someone with a mind to innovate, automate, and constantly use measurements and statistics to improve. Members of the team have backgrounds in a range of areas including software development, networking, UNIX internals and large-scale systems administration.

Responsibilities:
* Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of applications
* Own the automation of repetitive tasks and resolution of systematic issues
* Identify and deliver engineering solutions for issues based on root cause analysis
* Own incident management and resolution
* Lead by evangelizing the SRE mindset to other teams
* Provide support and ensure applications are production ready

Qualifications:
* Strong background in computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, distributed systems
* Fully proficient in at least one modern structured programming language
* Comfortable with a range of current software development tools and practices (testing, source control, build systems, CI/CD etc)
* A basic working understanding of TCP/IP networking, LAN and WAN as well as Linux networking
* SQL and database experience a strong plus.
* Some experience with building and managing highly reliable large scale systems a plus
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Strong entrepreneurial spirit
* A passion for learning, adapting to changing requirements and technology and inventing new
approaches to hard problems

Education:
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science or an allied field.