AVP - SRE - Platform Engineering

Position: Platform Reliability Engineer (SRE) Overview We are seeking a hands-on, technically skilled professional to join our global team as an Associate Platform Reliability Engineer. This role is critical to ensuring the stability, reliability, and resilience of Jefferies’ front-to-back technology infrastructure, with a focus on post-trade processing, operations, and regulatory support.

Key Responsibilities

Collaborate with a high-performing global team to maintain plant stability across middle-office and operations applications. Lead incident triage, root cause analysis, and communication, with a strong focus on problem management. Partner with regional teams to drive technical and functional initiatives. Identify and eliminate manual support tasks through automation; develop tools for deployment, management, and service visibility.

Design and implement robust monitoring and alerting systems using platforms like AppD and OpenTelemetry. Work closely with engineering teams to support system architecture, schema design, and performance tuning. Troubleshoot issues across the full technology stack.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Minimum 3 years of experience in programming with Python, Go, C/C++, or C#. Strong foundation in computing fundamentals—data structures, algorithms, and software design. Experience in application design, maintenance, and support. Solid understanding of SRE principles and practices.

Proficiency in Linux/Unix and Windows Server environments. Hands-on experience with scripting, databases, and troubleshooting application/data access issues. Self-driven with a strong sense of ownership and commitment to quality. Excellent communication skills, able to engage both technical and business stakeholders. Familiarity with open-source platforms such as Redis, MongoDB, Kafka, and Elasticsearch.

Experience configuring observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, Loki). Exposure to DevOps tools and technologies including Git, Jenkins, Ansible.