Balyasny Asset Management L.P. ยท 22 hours ago
Site Reliability Engineer - Core Data Services
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expBalyasny Asset Management L.P. is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to cultivate their SRE philosophy and processes within the Core Data Services team. The role involves driving standards, enhancing performance, and ensuring the reliability of trading systems and production environments across various platforms.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Develop and promote our SRE philosophy, establishing best practices and processes that will be instrumental in scaling our infrastructure
Implement and scale end-to-end observability and monitoring solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Tempo, ensuring high visibility into application performance and infrastructure health
Participate in on-call rotation with approximately 1 week per month of on-call time shared equally across members of the team
Review and define standards for application reliability requirements within our Kubernetes environment, ensuring application configuration is optimized for performance, cost and reliability
Develop automation and tooling to improve efficiency and reliability of deployment pipelines, system health checks, and recovery procedures
Collaborate with development teams to enhance service stability, scalability, and fault tolerance through SRE best practices like blameless post-mortems and service level objectives (SLOs)
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in SRE or similar roles within complex, distributed systems environments
A Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, information systems, or equivalent experience
SME with key SRE technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo (OTEL)
Extensive knowledge of container orchestration using Kubernetes and containerization with Docker
Hands-on experience with both cloud (AWS preferred) and on-premises hosting platforms
Proven ability to script in languages like Python, Bash, or Go, to automate routine tasks and deployment pipelines
Strong understanding of CI/CD principles, agile methodologies, and DevOps culture
High level of initiative, passion for reliability engineering, detail orientation, and follow-through capabilities
Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to a diverse audience
Preferred
Experience with Databases (PostgreSQL, Redis, Snowflake), Messaging (Kafka, Solace), and/or Orchestration (Airflow)
Company
Balyasny Asset Management L.P.
Balyasny Asset Management (BAM) is a diversified global investment firm founded in 2001 by Dmitry Balyasny, Scott Schroeder, and Taylor O'Malley.
1001-5000 employees
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