Site Reliability Engineer - Remote

Overview

Doran Jones is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join a high-performing DevOps team supporting critical infrastructure for a global financial technology company leading securities finance applications for a client base of investment banks, agent lenders, and hedge funds.

In Short

• Monitor production systems to ensure high availability, performance, and reliability.
• Respond to and resolve incidents promptly.
• Automate routine operational tasks, deployments, and infrastructure maintenance.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and work with engineering teams to optimize application and infrastructure performance.
• Participate in capacity planning and system scaling strategies.
• Ensure systems are secure by design and work closely with internal teams to address vulnerabilities and enforce best practices.
• Collaborate with DevOps and Engineering teams to improve system architecture and deployment pipelines.
• Document processes, runbooks, and best practices for knowledge sharing and operational continuity.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with Linux system administration, preferably RHEL or Rocky Linux.
• Experience working in production environments with a focus on reliability and incident response.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to troubleshoot complex system issues.
• In-depth experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and services including, but not limited to, EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, Athena, and Systems Manager.
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Datadog, or similar).
• Excellent communication skills; ability to interact with both technical teams and occasionally clients.
• Ability to work independently and manage tasks in a fast-paced Agile environment.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on critical production systems.
• Collaborate with international teams.
• Participate in an on-call rotation.
• Dynamic, fast-paced work environment.