Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Location: Sofia, Sofia City Province, bg

Company Description

Devexperts works with respected financial institutions, delivering products and tailor-made solutions for retail and brokerage houses, exchanges, and buy-side firms. The company focuses on trading platforms and brokerage automation, complex software development projects, market data products, and IT consulting services. 

Job Description

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to fill the open position in a team that develops and supports a few big trading platforms. You will help the existing team to ensure access to various markets to end users from a lot of countries. You will be responsible for maintaining availability, automating release/deploy process, seamless monitoring, and alerting of all the solutions.

We expect the Site Reliability Engineer to:

• Work closely with developers for prototyping, and designing new features as part of the infrastructure,
• Deploy, install, configure and maintain sophisticated Trading/Finance and related software,
• Configure bare metal instances by using Infrastructure as Code,
• Build & maintain CI/CD pipelines,
• Make key decisions for scalability, reliability and accessibility,
• Install and manage in-house developed and external well-known monitoring systems,
• Design, deploy and configure cloud-based servers and networks provision servers and storage, configure firewalls, VPN, monitoring, etc,
• Administrate UNIX infrastructure – installation, configuration and maintenance,
• Work with the Nexus and GIT repositories.

Qualifications

Must-have skills:

• 5+ years of experience in the field,
• Experience as an SRE or DevOps,
• Strong experience with OS-level administration on Linux and/or UNIX,
• IAAS solutions using Ansible and/or Terraform,
• Experience with Docker containers orchestrating (OpenShift/Hashicorp),
• Know how to read and analyze errors,
• In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP and ISO/OSI stack,
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Zabbix, Elasticsearch or Opensearch, Grafana, Kibana, etc),
• Experience in working with Apache, Nginx, HAproxy, Envoy, etc,
• Administration of UNIX infrastructure – installation, configuration and maintenance,
• Configuring instances by using Infrastructure as Code,
• English level not lower than B2.

Nice-to-have skills:

• Experience with support of JVM application (garbage collection, memory leaks),
• Experience with software development,
• Hands-on scripting experience with Bash, Python, and/or Groovy,
• Experience with configuring TeamCity CI/CD pipelines,
• Strong ability to solve problems using code and scripting.

Additional Information

Care for the employees is one of Devexperts' core values. For the suggested position, we offer a benefits package that will guarantee the comfort of our new teammate.

Flexibility benefits:

• Possibility of hybrid/remote work mode,
• Flexible working hours.

Health and recreation benefits:

• 20 days of paid vacation,
• 5 days of fully paid additional wellness days,
• Medical insurance – premium package,
• Free MultiSport card.

Facility benefits:

• Modern office with new equipment,
• Panoramic view of Vitosha mountain,
• PlayStation, Billiard, Relax zone and Gym,
• Parking space/public transport card,
• Free drinks and snacks.

Community benefits:

• Teambuilding activities,
• Corporate parties,
• Football club,
• Speakers' club,
• Free admission to corporate external events,
• Possibility of joining conferences and professional fairs.

Professional training benefits:

• English language courses,
• Local language courses for foreign employees,
• Unlimited access to self-learning platforms,
• Certification opportunities,
• Mentorship Program.

Social benefits:

• Referral bonuses for specific roles,
• Paid leave upon special events.