Opportunity brief
CME Group is hiring for the role of Site Reliability Engineer I!
Responsibilities of the Candidate:
- Learn from and work alongside senior engineers to assist with building out observability, monitoring, and alerting for key services.
- Shadow senior engineers as they partner with product teams to understand the reliability and scalability needs for new features.
- Write and maintain basic scripts and tools to help reduce toil and improve engineering velocity.
- Contribute to and learn from our culture of blameless post-mortem to drive continuous improvement.
- Assist with DR (Disaster Recovery) and systems resiliency testing.
- Support the migration of Customer and Clearing applications to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- After a period of training and mentorship, begin to shadow and then participate in the on-call rotation with direct support from senior engineers.
Requirements:
- A passion for technology and a strong desire to build a career in Site Reliability Engineering.
- Foundational programming/scripting skills (e.g., Python, Java, C++, Bash) demonstrated through coursework, personal projects, or internships.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities with a curious mindset.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
- A profound eagerness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced CME environment.
- Desirable (Nice to have, not required):
- Familiarity with cloud concepts (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure).
- Good knowledge of Linux-based systems
- Basic understanding of containerization technologies like Docker or Kubernetes.
- An interest in metrics & monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Splunk.
- Foundational knowledge of networking concepts (HTTP, TCP/IP).
- An interest in financial technology and high-performance systems.