Principal Site Reliability Engineer
Randstad Singapore
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Job Description
About the Company
We are partnering with a high-growth Decentralized Finance (DeFi) company, offering a very attractive salary budget and a 100% remote work environment. This is an exciting opportunity to join an innovative team at the forefront of financial technology.
About the Role: Principal Site Reliability Engineer
As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer, you will be instrumental in ensuring the robust reliability and optimal architectural design of our high-frequency trading infrastructure. Your expertise will be critical in maintaining maximum uptime and performance for large-scale, low-latency financial transactions.
Key Responsibilities
- Spearhead the reliability and architectural design of high-frequency trading infrastructure to ensure maximum uptime.
- Oversee and optimize complex containerized clusters across multiple cloud environments.
- Engineer and maintain core backend services that power large-scale, low-latency financial transactions.
- Lead incident response efforts and implement proactive strategies to minimize system downtime.
- Collaborate directly with executive leadership to scale the engineering department and streamline deployment workflows.
Skills and Requirements
The ideal candidate will possess a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience, coupled with deep technical proficiency in modern SRE practices:
- Expert proficiency in developing automated solutions using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
- Expert-level knowledge of containerization technologies such as Kubernetes (k8s), Nomad, and Docker.
- Extensive experience managing Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform for infrastructure as code.
- Deep technical proficiency in AWS cloud architecture and securing complex network environments.
- Proficiency in writing scripts or CLI tools in high-level languages like Python to enhance developer productivity.
To apply online please use the 'apply' function, alternatively you may contact Stella at +65 96554170 (EA: 94C3609 /R1875382).
Key Skills/Competency
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
- Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
- Kubernetes (k8s)
- Docker
- Terraform
- AWS Cloud
- Incident Response
- Python Scripting
- System Architecture
How to Get Hired at Randstad Singapore
- Research Randstad Singapore's culture: Study their mission, values, recent news, and employee testimonials on LinkedIn and Glassdoor to understand their recruitment approach for the Principal Site Reliability Engineer role.
- Tailor your resume for SRE: Customize your resume to highlight expert proficiency in Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, and Python, using keywords from the job description to optimize for Applicant Tracking Systems.
- Showcase DeFi and HFT experience: Emphasize any background in high-frequency trading infrastructure or decentralized finance projects, demonstrating direct relevance to the role's specific domain.
- Prepare for technical SRE interviews: Be ready to discuss your experience with incident response, system architecture, scaling containerized environments, and automating infrastructure as code solutions.
- Demonstrate leadership and collaboration: During interviews, provide examples of how you've led engineering initiatives, collaborated with executive leadership, and improved deployment workflows in previous Principal SRE roles.
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