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Squarepoint

Squarepoint

Platform Specialist - Observability

London On-site 2-5 yrs exp Financial Services 2,383 employees
DevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringPythonGit

Requirements

Requires a degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a similar discipline and at least four years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering. Candidates should have software development experience, familiarity with observability stacks and Kubernetes at scale, system administration and troubleshooting skills, and strong communication skills; Kubernetes Operators, Ansible, Terraform, and ClickHouse are advantageous.

Job Description

Platform Specialist - Observability


Role Overview:

As a Platform Specialist on the Observability team, you will play a crucial technical role in delivering and evolving the monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting platforms that engineers across the firm rely on to understand and run their systems, using the DevOps methodology. You will work with internal and external stakeholders to build and maintain automated, self-service observability services that are reliable, secure and scalable across multiple regions.

You will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the quality of telemetry the firm depends on, owning the platform end to end, from data collection and ingestion through storage, querying, dashboards and alerting. You will shape both the architecture and the user experience of the platform, and look for ways to reduce operational noise and make it easy for teams to get value from their data. This is a hands-on engineering role, with a strong emphasis on automation, software development and operating distributed systems at scale.


Required Qualifications:

  • Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or similar discipline
  • 4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles
  • Experience with software development (at least Python, Git - Golang or Rust)
  • Experience with an observability stack such as Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Vector, Elastic stack, Grafana, Open Telemetry and AlertManager
  • Experience with observability at scale for highly distributed applications in Kubernetes
  • Experience with system administration and troubleshooting (Bash, Linux, Containerization)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills


Nice to have:

  • Experience with creating and operating Kubernetes Operators
  • Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management, such as Ansible and Terraform
  • Experience with ClickHouse


Education

Bachelor Degree

Skills

DevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringPythonGitGoRustPrometheusVictoriaMetricsVectorElastic StackGrafanaOpenTelemetryAlertManagerKubernetesLinux

About Squarepoint

Squarepoint is a leading global investment management firm that develops quantitative investment strategies to achieve high quality returns for our clients. We are a data and technology driven firm who specialize in developing automated trading systems that execute across global financial markets.