Site Reliability Engineer - Trading Technology

Kraken is looking for an experienced SRE to join to join our trading technology group.

Responsibilities

• Work independently with multiple stakeholders outside of the formal management structure
• Responsible for the operation, support, and security of production infrastructure for Trading Services
• Monitor and support Staging and Production environments
• Manage releases using Hashicorp Nomad
• Implement robust metrics, alerts and monitoring of Trading infrastructure
• Improve Developer Tooling, help with building Docker images, manage our Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines for automating quality testing
• Analyze potential risks of downtime and develop systems that will eliminate the issue
• Support a fully distributed team operating across numerous timezones

Requirements:

• 3+ years in a DevOps role (DevOps, SRE, etc)
• Experience with high performance, low latency distributed systems (particularly financial)
• Experience with Hashicorp Consul, Nomad, Vault and its PKI features
• Experience with monitoring / alerting (primarily with Prometheus / Grafana) and knowledge of best practices in the area
• Experience with Bash, Python, YAML, Configuration and Secret Management
• Experience with distributed systems and technologies - gRPC & Kafka
• Experience configuring Continuous Integration (CI)
• Understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems, shell scripting
• Understand DNS, SSL/ TLS, and how traffic on IP networks establishes end-to-end security and trust.
• Understanding of networking concepts such as TCP/IP and UDP
• Experience in logging, monitoring and tracing using Splunk, Cloudwatch and ELK

Nice to haves

• Familiar with FIX protocol
• Experience with Websockets and Real-Time Market Data feeds
• Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes and Helm Charts
• Understanding of digital currency trading market