Platform Reliability Engineer - Assistant Vice President

This is an Assistant Vice President position within Platform Reliability Engineering and Management leveraging SRE Principles and Practices based out of Mumbai Location. This role is looking for a hands on multi skilled professional with strong technical competence to deliver critical services ensuring Jefferies operates a highly stable, reliable, and resilient front-to-back plant.

Responsibilities:

Be a part of hands on high performing global team and provide oversight in plant stability across applications supporting post trade processing (Operations).

Navigate global technology department and wider organization to better understand problems and to help implement solutions.

Handle incident triage and communication. Strong problem Management experience.

Collaboration with other regional counterparts on technical and functional initiatives.

Automate to drive efficiency. You will identify and create automation to eliminate manual day to day support activities; scope and create automation for deployment, management and visibility of our services.

Implement best practices for building successful monitoring and alerting systems. Experience with Observability platforms like Datadog and open telemetry is desired.

You will work closely with engineering/development teams to design, build, and maintain systems and help them decide on products to use, schema design and query tuning.

Extensive troubleshooting abilities across the stack

QUALIFICATIONS

Technical Skills:

Bachelors degree or equivalent, ideally in an area related to technology infrastructure (e.g., engineering, computer science, etc.)

6 plus years of support experience in Post trade processing for Fixed Income or Equities.

Hands on experience with troubleshooting Application/Database/Data related issues.

Strong organization skills with the ability to multitask and prioritize; ability to work under pressure.

Experience in software development: automation-related experience desired.

Scripting languages such as PowerShell, python or compiled languages such as C#, JAVA are most relevant, but others are acceptable.

Extensive experience with Microsoft SQL server or any other DBMS including performance tuning.

Deep understanding of operating system level concepts such as processes, memory allocation, and the network stack an understanding of how applications are affected by the above, and ability to debug same.

Desired Skills:

Hands on experience with a scripting language and strong understanding of databases

Prior experience as a developer in a large-scale financial firm

The candidate must be already doing a similar role