Site Reliability Engineer

Leading market maker firms has an exciting opportunity open for a Site Reliability Engineer based out in Amsterdam. In this role you will be designing, building and leading innovative IT projects in an environment where you can be creative and pragmatic at the same time.

Their Linux Team ensures their trading servers work so they can trade. They establish the production environment works optimally by deploying, maintaining, monitoring and operating a fleet of UNIX servers to its highest possible performance.

You will join a highly-customized environment where proprietary tools and technology run. You will be expected to help build the pioneering tools to keep our systems best-in-class.

What you’ll do

• Tackle the life cycle of a server and build and deploy new solutions
• Upgrade, maintain and execute changes to the UNIX servers
• Performance monitoring and managing the system capacity
• Fix and analyse technical incidents, solve technical ad hoc problems
• Lead the charge to intelligent automation
• Be the connection between hardware and software
• Research new technologies and solutions, implement them or build better

What you’ll need to be successful

• A Linux Admin meets SRE/Programming mindset to help build the right tools for continual improvement
• Experience within a high-performance computer environment where the result matters
• Focus on automating and solid Python skills
• Infrastructure-as-Code with an Ansible flavor