DevOps Site Reliability Engineer (contract) jobs in United States
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BNY · 6 days ago

DevOps Site Reliability Engineer (contract)

BNY is a leading global financial services company that influences nearly 20% of the world’s investible assets. The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will support BNY’s Structured Debt Platform Engineering team, focusing on improving the reliability, scalability, security, and performance of critical applications while balancing modernization and new system development in a highly Agile environment.

Financial Services

Responsibilities

Platform Reliability & Operations: Ensure high availability, performance, and stability across ~18 structured debt applications hosted on private cloud infrastructure (Azure-based), including incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term remediation
DevOps & Automation: Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines, implement monitoring and observability tools, and automate operational workflows using modern DevOps and SRE practices
Application Modernization: Support a 50/50 mix of maintaining existing applications and building or migrating to new platforms to replace legacy systems; onboard to 1–2 applications initially and expand coverage over time
System Monitoring & Performance: Proactively monitor applications and infrastructure using tools such as Splunk and AppDynamics; identify bottlenecks and reliability risks before they impact users
Cross-Program Engineering Support: Rotate across programs as priorities shift, supporting both new initiatives and cleanup of older applications in Al’s engineering space
Collaboration & Delivery: Work closely with engineering, infrastructure, and security teams in an Agile environment to deliver secure, resilient, and continuously improving systems

Qualification

Site Reliability EngineeringDevOpsCI/CD pipelinesMonitoring toolsJava-based systemsAnsibleDockerKubernetesLinuxPythonTerraformSplunkAppDynamicsSQL/Sybase databasesKafkaHazelcastAgile environmentCollaborationProblem-solving

Required

8–10+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, or technical operations
Strong hands-on engineering background beyond scripting, including Java-based systems and distributed applications
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring/observability tools, and production support
Proficiency with DevOps and SRE tooling such as Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Python, Terraform, Splunk, and AppDynamics
Experience with SQL/Sybase databases and messaging technologies (Kafka, Hazelcast)
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)

Preferred

Financial services or securities industry background
Exposure to AWS, Azure, or S3 (helpful, though the environment is primarily on-prem/private cloud)
Advanced degree
Experience supporting large portfolios of legacy applications undergoing modernization

Benefits

Medical
Dental
Vision
Retirement benefits via Tundra Technical Solutions

Company

For more than 240 years BNY has partnered alongside clients, using its expertise and platforms to help them operate more efficiently and accelerate growth.

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage

Leadership Team

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Brian A. Ruane
CEO Government Securities Services & Global Client Management
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Chris Kearns
CEO, Depositary Receipts
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