Lead Site Reliability Engineer

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our next-Gen Trading Platform who has a passion and prior expertise in building a next-gen cloud based, streaming microservices at scale and power our application modernization plans.

You should be passionate about technology, software engineering, quality, and innovatively addressing technical problems. You will work with the team to establish SRE best practices and procedures collaborate on technical solutions and ensure exceptional software engineering practices, quality, and good documentation.

It's essential to be willing to take on new skills to meet the shifting demands of accelerating our modernization efforts to the public cloud and Kubernetes world. Feedback from your users should be something that you look forward to, as you will work closely with internal users to incorporate their needs into your roadmap and use it as a measure of success. A critical success factor is being viewed as a trusted partner and collaborator.

We embrace a culture of collaboration and experimentation while striving and encouraging all team members to focus on continuous improvement and learning. We openly welcome diverse perspectives and people who are not afraid to challenge assumptions and prior ways of working.  Otherwise, how do we innovate, learn and grow as a team and individuals?

How You'll Help Take Us There

• Lead a team of developers to define and implement SRE best practices
• Build a culture of automation, identifying manual tasks and creating robust and innovative solutions to remove toil
• Integrate and operate observability products that support compliance requirements and enable the team to better understand the state of their services and apps in production and help other teams do the same
• Provide technical leadership and guidance around containerization of applications and DevOps best practices
• Perform analytics on previous incidents to better predict issues and take proactive actions
• Develop, monitor, and alert on SLIs/SLOs
• Grow our agile development culture through use of excellent engineering skills and a deep knowledge of DevOps methodologies
• Own the regular reviews of systems performance metrics with the stakeholders
• Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in internal & external technology communities, mentoring other members of the engineering community
• Socialize SRE culture across teams in the organization
• Build and maintain CI / CD pipelines for applications and products
• Author Release / Deployment Plans and Rollback procedures 
• Develop and scale engineering best practices across the organization through automation, auditability, automated testing, infrastructure and policy as code
• Establishing cross-training initiatives to provide enhanced automated support capabilities

What We’re Looking for  

• 5+ years in Cloud and SRE to DevOps roles, with 2+ years minimum of software development experience
• 3+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, deploying, and automating infrastructure & platform services in Public Clouds (AWS, GCP, and Azure) using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• 2+ years as team lead
• Familiarity with Automation and DevSecOps Pipeline tools like Ansible, Maven, Gradle, Chef, Puppet, etc.
• Comprehensive understanding of CI/CD and experience with building and deploying pipelines with tools such as Jenkins
• Strong knowledge in at least one and preferably both: Java, Python
• Experience with shell scripting
• Hands-on experience in orchestration container platforms (cloud or on-premises such as docker, EKS, AKS, Tanzu, OpenShift, etc.)
• Deeply committed to complete automation of the complete SDLC
• Exceptional problem resolution skills
• Exceptional quantitative and analytical skills
• Strong written, verbal, and team communications skills
• Ability to collaborate with team members and colleagues across the organization, as well as open attitude about sharing work-in-progress and developing ideas 
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject

What You Can Expect from Us

• Hybrid Environment: Our employees enjoy a mix of working in the office and from home
• Free Food: We provide free lunch for employees when they are working in the office. Plus, our offices are stocked with snacks
• Paid Time Off: Competitive PTO package including vacation and personal days, sick leave and charity days
• Generous Parental Leave: Up to 20 weeks fully paid leave
• 401(k): Dollar-for-dollar employer match up to $17,500
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Employees can purchase MarketAxess common stock at a discount
• Wellness Stipend: We provide employees with up to $1K annually towards gym memberships, home office equipment and more
• Onsite Healthcare: We offer convenient access to world-class care through Mount Sinai at our Hudson Yards location
• Tuition Assistance and Professional Development: Benefit from live and on-demand learning, role-specific training, employee-led Lunch and Learns and guest speakers
• Core benefits: Highly competitive medical, dental, and vision programs

For job positions in NYC, NY, and other locations where required, the estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is $240,000 USD to $260,000 USD. Actual salary may vary depending on job-related factors, which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. You may also be eligible for annual cash incentives, equity, and other benefit programs.

MarketAxess Corporation and its affiliates provide equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic in the location in which the candidate is applying.

All of your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.