Compliance-Dallas-Vice President-DevOps Engineering

As a SRE Engineer you will play a mission‑critical role ensuring that our systems are healthy, monitored, automated, and designed to scale. You will collaborate with engineering teams to continually improve our production services, facilitating fast delivery of new services and reducing downtime. SRE utilizes automation, tools and solid engineering principles to optimize existing systems, build infrastructure and eliminate operational work.

We are looking for passionate, curious, driven engineers who thrive on solving operational problems and improving efficiency, and would like to apply their skills to Compliance Engineering SRE.

• Proactive management of our production services by measuring and monitoring availability, capacity and overall system health.
• Shaping software before go‑live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Scaling and evolving systems by pushing for changes that improve capacity and reliability.
• Practicing sustainable incident management in a blameless postmortem culture.
• Identifying and building improvements to system behavior, control and monitoring tools.
• Defining and maintaining Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to quantify and manage service reliability.
• Engineering solutions to reduce "toil" through advanced automation and self‑healing system capabilities.
• Conducting capacity modelling and performance tuning to ensure systems meet future demand.

• Experience in one or more of the following:
  Java, Python and Perl.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to clearly express ideas and arguments.
• Solid analytical and problem‑solving skills with appreciation of technical risk.
• Experience with automated testing and SDLC concepts, developing applications in a Linux environment, and sound knowledge of algorithms, data structures and software design.
• Systematic problem‑solving approach and a sense of ownership and drive.
• Ability to debug and optimise code and to automate routine tasks.
• Proficiency with Observability stacks, including distributed tracing, logging and metrics (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK or Open Telemetry).
• Deep understanding of containerisation and orchestration technologies, specifically Docker and Kubernetes (K8s).
• Knowledge of networking protocols and load balancing strategies in a distributed systems environment.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field that involves programming.
• Experience in some of the following is desired: SRE experience, relational databases, Hadoop and big‑data technologies, knowledge of the financial industry or compliance/risk functions.
• Experience with Chaos Engineering principles and fault‑injection testing to verify system resilience.
• Familiarity with cloud‑native architecture and managed services (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Understanding of error budgeting and its application in balancing feature velocity with system stability.
• Hands‑on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks such as Terraform, Ansible or Cloud Formation.

• Passionate about solving operational problems and constant improvement via automation.
• Highly motivated, pro‑active and capable of working under pressure without compromising development processes.
• Strong, committed and reliable team player and strong communicator, able to take direction but also willing to contribute to discussions on design and strategy.
• Possess client‑facing skills to be able to deal with and form good relationships with the business and other technology groups through day‑to‑day support and project work.
• Ability to multi‑task and be effective working in a fast‑paced environment.
• Interest in financial markets, technology and the ability to learn.