VP, Equities SRE

Jefferies•New York, NY

14h•$150,000 - $225,000

About The Position

Jefferies is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to support its Equity front-office trading applications, risk systems, and real-time middle-office products used for Equity Cash and ETS applications. As part of the wider platform engineering team, the role works closely with business users throughout the day and with technical, analysis, and testing colleagues. The position supports a growing business area with ongoing investment across technology, business, and middle-office functions. The role provides front-line site reliability engineering and support for equity trading systems used by Jefferies clients and internal users. It includes monitoring and improving application and infrastructure performance, deploying and managing scalable cloud-native infrastructure, automating services, maintaining CI/CD pipelines, planning capacity, and supporting platform growth. The engineer investigates and resolves complex application and technical issues, helps lead incident response and post-mortems, and works with application teams to establish production and development standards. The position includes global support, weekend availability for production troubleshooting and checkouts, and participation in on-call rotations for 24/7 system availability. It also supports compliance and legal queries. The primary location is not specified. The stated full-time salary range is $150,000–$225,000. Eligible employees may receive an annual discretionary incentive and retention bonus, medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k), life, accident, and disability insurance, wellness programs, paid time off, paid holidays, and paid parental leave for full-time employees.

Requirements

Strong experience with Windows and Linux/Unix services.
Strong experience with scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python, and SQL.
Strong knowledge of monitoring tools such as Nagios, Splunk, OTEL, and Datadog.
Strong knowledge of the FIX protocol.
Working experience in Capital Markets across modules and instruments, especially Cash, ETS, Bonds, Options, Futures, and Swaps.
Experience with BFSI (Banking and Financial Industry) domain applications and a proper understanding of the trade lifecycle.
Excellent communication, time-management, and project-management skills.
Ability to work independently and in groups in an energetic, diverse environment.

Responsibilities

Provide front-line site reliability engineering and support for equity trading systems used by Jefferies clients and internal users.
Build monitoring tools for application and infrastructure components.
Implement and manage scalable infrastructure using cloud-native technologies and tools.
Gather and analyze operating-system and application metrics to support performance tuning and fault finding.
Partner with business, development, and infrastructure teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures.
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployment processes.
Deploy new systems and perform capacity planning, platform management, and support for increasing volumes and business growth.
Create sustainable systems and services through automation.
Collaborate with application teams to establish and enforce production and development standards.
Document procedures, best practices, and troubleshooting FAQs.
Resolve complex application and technical problems.
Debug systems and fix production-related issues.
Escalate and follow up on permanent fixes for development-related issues.
Lead incident response efforts and post-mortem analysis to prevent future incidents.
Handle complex operational tasks and recommend process and technology changes.
Provide global support, including weekend availability to troubleshoot production issues and perform checkouts.
Participate in on-call rotations to ensure 24/7 system availability and support.
Support compliance and legal queries.