The FIC team is responsible for providing real time, firm wide risk and P & L for Fixed Income, Commodities, Credit and FX. We are running a service mesh on a Kubernetes cluster. This is a hands-on role, helping deploying and supporting the growing number of services we run. Candidates must have experience with modern cloud technologies.
This is a unique opportunity to join one of the leading hedge funds in the world and enter the fast-growing world of FinTech, learning from the best in the field how it is done at the highest levels. We offer a fast-paced environment with excellent international growth opportunities and exposure to world-class financial technologies and global markets.
Principal Responsibilities
- Take part in managing multiple k8s clusters, including upgrades, scaling, monitoring, resolving production issues, etc.
- Help developers and quants deploy new services, including writing Kustomize manifests and build pipelines.
- Advise developers on best practices for observability, metrics, logging, and tracing.
- Configure Istio for a microservices environment, including routing, mirroring, A/B deployments, and circuit breakers.
- Set up alerts with Prometheus and help troubleshoot in a microservice environment.
- Implement CI/CD using Jenkins, Argo CD, and GitOps.
Mandatory Requirements
- Expert level with Kubernetes and Docker, with at least 3 years of hands-on experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters.
- Experience with tracing, e.g., Jaeger/OpenTelemetry.
- Experience with monitoring/metrics, e.g., Prometheus, Thanos.
- Experience with the Grafana LGTM stack (Tempo, Loki, Grafana).
- Experience with Kustomize/Helm.
- Experience with ArgoCD and Argo Workflows.
- Coding skills in Python and Bash.
- GitOps.
- Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills.
- Self-starter able to execute independently, on a deadline, and under pressure; good at multitasking.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Requirements
- Experience with EKS.
- Experience with AWS.
- Experience with service meshes (Istio).
- Experience with Jenkins and Jenkins pipelines/Groovy.
- Experience with the CNCF landscape.
- Familiarity with SRE terminology, SLOs/SLIs, etc.
Nice To Have
- Experience with GCP.
- Experience with Terraform.
- Experience with Skaffold.
- Experience running databases on Kubernetes (MongoDB, Postgres).
- Experience running multicloud workloads.
