Reliability Platform Engineer

$150,000 - $200,000/Yr

Jefferies Group - New York, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

New York, NY

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

About the position

Jefferies is seeking a Reliability Platform Engineer to provide development and support for the Credit/Market Risk platform. The ideal candidate will be a creative and driven software engineer with a passion for technology, responsible for analyzing and resolving complex issues, performance tuning, system design, automation, risk management, incident response, monitoring, and collaboration with other teams.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and resolve intricate problems related to the Risk platform.
• Collect and analyze metrics from applications, databases, and application infrastructure to tune performance.
• Participate in system design consulting, capacity planning, and platform management.
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation.
• Identify and manage risks that could disrupt software development.
• Manage emergency incident response and practice sustainable incident response.
• Create dashboards and alerting systems to ensure services are operating correctly.
• Create backup plans in case of an emergency, such as disaster recovery plans.
• Collaborate with maintenance teams and project engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years experience working with software design and programming languages such as Java, Python, Perl, Shell, and JavaScript.
• 2+ years experience with implementing Observability tooling like open telemetry.
• 4+ years hands-on experience with Oracle 19x including complex performance tuning.
• 2+ years experience with software testing, performance, and quality engineering techniques and strategies.
• 4+ years experience with TWS or Autosys and managing large batches.

Nice-to-haves

• Self-starter that identifies/responds to priority with minimal supervision.
• Experience with backend technologies such as JAVA/J2EE, SpringBoot, SOA, and Microservices.
• Familiarity with source code control management systems (e.g. SVN/Git, Github) and build tools like Maven & Gradle.
• Experience in Agile environments (e.g. Scrum, XP).
• Knowledge of relational databases (e.g. Oracle 19x).
• Experience with Atlassian tooling (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, and Github).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with automated testing tools such as JUnit, Selenium, LoadRunner, SoapUI.

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision coverage
• 401(k)
• Life, accident, and disability insurance
• Wellness programs
• Paid time off packages including vacation, sick leave, paid holidays, and paid parental leave