Calypso-Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Remote - Fulltime/ W2 contract

Role: Calypso Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Work Location:Remote (Customer location -New York, NY 10045, open to onsite for critical meetings when needed)

Duration: Fulltime/ Contract Opportunity-W2

Job Descriptions:

• 6+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering / DevOps for Calypso (v17/18/19)

• Strong hands-on experience with:

• Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, networking, IAM, VPC)

• GitLab CI/CD pipelines

• Scripting: PowerShell, Bash/Shell [Python is added advantage]

• Experience with:

• Monitoring tools (e.g., ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk)

• CI/CD and release automation

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation preferred)

• Strong understanding of:

• Linux/Unix systems

• Networking fundamentals and cloud architecture

• Basic Database concepts (Oracle/SQL)

• Experience supporting high-availability, low-latency enterprise systems

Responsibilities

• Own reliability, availability, and performance of Calypso across production and non-production environments

• Design, implement, and operate end-to-end SRE practices, including monitoring, alerting, incident management, and capacity planning

• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, enabling automated build, deployment, and release of Calypso components

• Automate deployment and environment provisioning on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles

• Develop and maintain automation scripts using PowerShell, Shell (Bash), and Python for operational tasks, deployments, and monitoring

• Ensure high availability and resiliency of Calypso services through failover strategies, clustering, and disaster recovery planning

• Implement observability frameworks, including logging, metrics, and distributed tracing for proactive issue detection

• Define and monitor SLOs/SLIs/SLAs, ensuring system performance meets business expectations in a trading environment

• Lead incident management and root cause analysis (RCA), ensuring quick resolution of production issues and prevention of recurrence

• Optimize system performance, including JVM tuning, database performance, and application-level optimizations for high-volume trade processing

• Manage environment stability, including handling batch jobs, EOD processing, and trade lifecycle events in Calypso

• Collaborate with development, QA, and infrastructure teams to ensure smooth releases and production readiness

• Implement security best practices, including access controls, secrets management, and compliance with regulatory requirements

• Support release management and deployment strategies, including blue-green deployments, canary releases, and rollback mechanisms

• Drive continuous improvement and automation, reducing manual intervention and improving system reliability

• Maintain runbooks, playbooks, and operational documentation for support and incident handling

• Support production releases and provide hypercare support, ensuring system stability during critical business cycles