Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (On-site)

Systems Engineer III - ESP

21 Minutes ago • All levels

System Design

Job Description

CME Group is seeking a passionate Systems Engineer III (Tue - Sat) to join their dynamic team. This role involves ensuring the reliability and performance of trading and clearing server environments. The successful candidate will collaborate with engineering teams to monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot Markets systems, improve observability, contribute to incident response, and support migration to Google Cloud Platform. The role requires creative problem-solving, effective communication, and both independent and collaborative work.

Good To Have:

Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform, GKE, and/or GCE.
Basic knowledge of networking (HTTP/TCP/UDP/IP).
Experience with Docker & Kubernetes.
Experience in Financial markets.
Experience working in an agile environment.

Must Have:

Collaborate with Systems Engineers, SRE's and Product engineering teams to monitor, maintain and troubleshoot our Markets systems technology platform.
Contribute to incident response and on-call rotation - own and resolve escalated incidents, identifying and mitigating root causes associated with distributed computing architecture (client server, intranet/internet), h/w platforms and resources: CPU, memory, virtualization, clustering and Cloud computing.
Take accountability for delivery of moderately-complex incidents, problems and changes.
Experience with Linux & Windows-based systems and Cloud-based platform(s).
Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.
Excellent effective communication and teamwork skills.
Experience and knowledge of working with distributed systems.
Exposure to working with metrics & monitoring: Splunk, Grafana etc.
Experience working with Infrastructure as Code.
Competent scripting skills (Python, Bash, etc.).
Eagerness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced trading environment.

Perks:

Bonus Programme
Equity Programme
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
Private Medical and Dental coverage
Mental Health Benefit Programme
Group Pension Plan
Income Protection
Life Assurance
Cycle To Work
EV Car Benefit Scheme
Gym Membership
Family Leave
Education Assistance – MBA/Advanced Degree/Bachelor Degree
Ongoing Employee Development Training/Certification
Hybrid Working

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We are seeking a passionate Systems Engineer III (Tue - Sat) to join our dynamic team.

The Systems Engineer III will help ensure the reliability and performance of our trading and clearing server environment.

The successful applicant must be able to solve problems creatively, communicate effectively, and work both independently and collaboratively.

Key Responsibilities:

Collaborate with Systems Engineers, SRE's and Product engineering teams to monitor, maintain and troubleshoot our Markets systems technology platform.
Collaborate with stakeholders to improve observability and alerting of our platform to enable data-driven business decisions, faster issue detection and incident resolution.
Contribute to incident response and on-call rotation - own and resolve escalated incidents, identifying and mitigating root causes associated with distributed computing architecture (client server, intranet/internet), h/w platforms and resources: CPU, memory, virtualization, clustering and Cloud computing.
Take accountability for delivery of moderately-complex incidents, problems and changes.
Lead technical discussions for own work and present solutions and approaches.
Support the migration of markets applications & infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Assist in automating tasks to enhance system scalability and reliability.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve system performance and efficiency
Defines problems and describes the cause and effect relationship; gathers and compares data about the problems with supervision and documents the details
Act as a mentor to L2 and L1 colleagues.