Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Department: Engineering Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time Location: London Description The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team at Preqin operates globally, supporting all of Preqin's services. Their responsibilities include designing, building, and maintaining infrastructure, middleware, and CI/CD systems to provide the best tools for internal teams. They blend problem-solving abilities with software and systems engineering to proactively construct fault-tolerant and secure systems, enhance observability, and aggressively automate tasks to reduce manual effort. What you'll be doing: Use your site reliability expertise to design, operate and support Preqin's infrastructure, middleware and internal services. Improving their performance, availability, scalability, latency and efficiency Drive technical excellence in everything we do, fostering a culture of data-driven reliability, monitoring and automation, following SRE best-practices Work alongside development teams to design and build scalable and high available services, while establishing effective build frameworks for continuous deployment and self-service automation Work on incident resolution and engage with various teams (including 3rd parties) for support escalation What you'll bring to us: You have previously worked with Amazon AWS cloud administration, including services such as: EC2, S3, ELB, RDS, IAM, Route 53, Auto Scaling Groups, Lambda, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation and Security Groups You possess expertise in containerisation within Kubernetes and Docker and are familiar with the pattern of Microservice Architecture. You can define container configuration and troubleshoot issues You're an expert with configuration management technologies such as Terraform and/or Ansible, as well as associated paradigms such as Infrastructure as Code and Immutable Infrastructure You're comfortable with building CI/CD pipelines in e.g. TeamCity/ Jenkins/ Concourse You have hands-on experience in one or more programming or scripting languages (e.g. Python, Golang, Bash, PowerShell, JavaScript, Java, C#), within an SCM environment (e.g. Bitbucket, GitHub) You have good networking skills, including knowledge of routing & switching protocols as well as DNS, firewalling, load-balancing and global traffic management You are familiar with, and able to install, configure and manage various persistence technologies, including database technologies (NoSQL/SQL) and broker/ queuing systems (e.g. Kafka, SQS), including knowledge of HA/ clustering You are comfortable with various logging, monitoring and alerting platforms and have expertise in the usage (and, desirably, the deployment) of e.g. ELK, CloudWatch, Fluentd, to enable forensic log analysis and system tuning as well as data-driven performance analysis (i.e. SLI/ SLO) and capacity planning You are a competent Linux & Windows systems administrator (for multiple distributions), including storage management (e.g. LVM, RAID) and security best-practices e.g. SSH, SSL/TLS, HMAC, IPS/IDS Why join us? About Us You will be joining the world's leading data and insights provider for the alternative assets market. We empower the global financial community with critical information and leading analytics solutions to help them make faster and smarter investment decisions, and to make them with confidence. A forward-thinking company, we lead our industry through innovation. We trust in the power of data, and we use it to increase transparency in alternatives. We believe that access to information leads to more investment in the ideas and infrastructure that build strong communities. Our Culture We centre our culture in our teams members growth, sparking their curiosity and fuelling their career adventures. We celebrate and recognise contribution, high performance and strong collaborative behaviours. We're building and growing our learning programs, frameworks and tools to help people thrive and it's an exciting time to join us. We support our internal communities and donate our time, knowledge and support to the communities that surround our offices globally. Equal opportunities Preqin is an equal opportunity employer, with diversity at the heart of our business. It is the policy of Preqin to ensure equal employment and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information, socioeconomic status, political affiliation, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.