• Site Reliability/DevOps Engineer

    Eagle Seven (Chicago, IL)


    Eagle Seven is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and assist with the design, development, and administration of our trading and research systems. This role is a unique blend of software engineering and system administration that encourages significant interaction with traders, developers, and researchers. The successful candidate will be proactive, have a strong sense of ownership, and be driven to provide creative technical solutions to business problems.

    Primary Responsibilities:

    + Designing, implementing and maintaining highly automated, scalable and resilient infrastructure in support of our real-time trading operations

    + Building solutions to automate and improve operational reliability and efficiency

    + Developing and maintaining binary and text based ETL pipelines

    + Interacting with and administering SQL and NoSQL databases both locally and in the cloud

    + Developing and maintaining various REST APIs and assisting with their integration into other projects

    + Participating in the design and implementation of green-field on-premises container orchestration platform

    + Creating integrations with various cloud platforms and on-premises data systems

    + Assisting the larger infrastructure team to develop system and network automations that make the team more efficient

    + Collaborating with various stakeholders to develop automated, customizable and proactive monitoring and reporting systems.

    + Participating in 2nd line support; responding to incidents quickly and appropriately to facilitate diagnosis and resolution

    + Staying current with the latest technology trends in the industry; propose, evaluate, and deploy innovative solutions

    + Implementing systems adhering to firm-wide security policies and industry best practices

    Requirements

    Skills and Experience:

    + 3+ years of experience in Systems, Network, SRE, or DevOps engineering

    + Strong programming experience in Python and shell scripting with a version control system such as Git required

    + Strong command of infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Salt Project, Puppet, and related technologies

    + Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Jenkins, Bamboo, GitHub actions, Gitlab CI/CD, ArgoCD, Flux)

    + Expertise in cloud technology (AWS and GCP experience preferred)

    + Experience with containerization, both on-premises (e.g., Kubernetes) and in the public cloud (e.g., Google GKE, Amazon EKS)

    + Excellent verbal/written communication skills and documentation/knowledge management skills

     

    Benefits

     

    Eagle Seven offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package to all full-time employees.

     

    + Medical PPO and HMO coverage through BlueCross BlueShield

    + Dental coverage through Principal

    + Vision coverage through VSP

    + 401k Retirement Savings Plan with Employer Match

    + Life Insurance

    + Paid Time Off

    + Flexible Spending Account

    + Pre-tax Transit Benefits

    + Complimentary Lunch and Beverages