Calypso SRE

Calypso Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) 

Required Skills & Experience 

• 6–10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering / DevOps / Production Support in capital markets platforms/enterprise applications 

[experience with Calypso V17/V18 is added advantage] 

• 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 

Roles & 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