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Service Reliability Engineer

Chicago$180k–$210kfull-timemidAdded today

About this role

DRW's Container Infrastructure team is hiring a Service Reliability Engineer to manage and optimize their large-scale Kubernetes platform serving trading desks and enterprise teams. You'll focus on platform reliability, cost optimization, automation of manual tasks, and cross-team collaboration to keep hundreds of clusters and thousands of nodes running smoothly.

What you'll do

  • Administer and maintain hundreds of Kubernetes clusters across on-premises and cloud environments
  • Partner with business units on application onboarding and deployment to the platform
  • Automate repetitive operational tasks to improve efficiency and reduce manual work
  • Monitor platform performance, costs, and compute consumption per desk
  • Develop new platform components and features to meet evolving business needs
  • Provide customer service and technical support to internal platform users

What they're looking for

  • Kubernetes cluster administration and troubleshooting
  • Networking, storage, and containerization fundamentals
  • AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform
  • Infrastructure automation and scripting
  • On-premise infrastructure management
  • Written and verbal communication across technical teams
  • Problem-solving under constraints
  • Kubernetes operators (Flux, Prometheus, Fluentd, Fluentbit)

Benefits

  • Group medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401k with discretionary employer match
  • Short and long-term disability coverage
  • Life and AD&D insurance
  • Health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts
  • Annual discretionary bonus eligibility
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DRW

DRW is a diversified trading firm that builds and maintains trading technology infrastructure, risk management systems, and systematic trading platforms supporting global 24/7 operations across multiple asset classes. The company is hiring Desktop Systems Engineers, Trade Systems Engineers, and Software Engineers to support endpoint infrastructure, trading system reliability, risk analytics, and full-stack trading platform development.

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Likely interview questions

  • Tell us about your experience administering Kubernetes clusters at scale—what was the largest environment you've managed?
  • Describe a time you automated a repetitive manual task; what tools did you use and what was the impact?