Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Preqin

Salary not provided
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
JavaScript
Python
Java
Kafka
Bash
Terraform
Windows
RDS
Powershell
Golang
Senior and Expert level
London

2+ days a week in office

Preqin

Data and insights provider for the alternative assets market.

Open for applications

Preqin

Data and insights provider for the alternative assets market.

1001+ employees

FintechB2BSaaSData IntegrationData Analysis

Open for applications

Salary not provided
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
JavaScript
Python
Java
Kafka
Bash
Terraform
Windows
RDS
Powershell
Golang
Senior and Expert level
London

2+ days a week in office

1001+ employees

FintechB2BSaaSData IntegrationData Analysis

Company mission

To revolutionise the private markets with data, insights and tools that help industry professionals make more informed decisions.

Role

Who you are

  • You have previously worked with Amazon AWS cloud administration, including services such as: EC2, S3, ELB, RDS, IAM, Route 53, Auto Scaling Groups, Lambda, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation and Security Groups
  • You possess expertise in containerisation within Kubernetes and Docker and are familiar with the pattern of Microservice Architecture. You can define container configuration and troubleshoot issues
  • You’re an expert with configuration management technologies such as Terraform and/or Ansible, as well as associated paradigms such as Infrastructure as Code and Immutable Infrastructure
  • You’re comfortable with building CI/CD pipelines in e.g. TeamCity/ Jenkins/ Concourse
  • You have hands-on experience in one or more programming or scripting languages (e.g. Python, Golang, Bash, PowerShell, JavaScript, Java, C#), within an SCM environment (e.g. Bitbucket, GitHub)
  • You have good networking skills, including knowledge of routing & switching protocols as well as DNS, firewalling, load-balancing and global traffic management
  • You are familiar with, and able to install, configure and manage various persistence technologies, including database technologies (NoSQL/SQL) and broker/ queuing systems (e.g. Kafka, SQS), including knowledge of HA/ clustering
  • You are comfortable with various logging, monitoring and alerting platforms and have expertise in the usage (and, desirably, the deployment) of e.g. ELK, CloudWatch, Fluentd, to enable forensic log analysis and system tuning as well as data-driven performance analysis (i.e. SLI/ SLO) and capacity planning
  • You are a competent Linux & Windows systems administrator (for multiple distributions), including storage management (e.g. LVM, RAID) and security best-practices e.g. SSH, SSL/TLS, HMAC, IPS/IDS

What the job involves

  • Use your site reliability expertise to design, operate and support Preqin’s infrastructure, middleware and internal services. Improving their performance, availability, scalability, latency and efficiency
  • Drive technical excellence in everything we do, fostering a culture of data-driven reliability, monitoring and automation, following SRE best-practices
  • Work alongside development teams to design and build scalable and high available services, while establishing effective build frameworks for continuous deployment and self-service automation
  • Work on incident resolution and engage with various teams (including 3rd parties) for support escalation

Application process

  • Introduction Call
  • 1st Stage Interview
  • 2nd Stage Interview
  • Final Interview
  • Offer

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Preqin is a London-based investment data company empowering the alternative asset market with essential data and insights. Supporting customers throughout the entire investment lifecycle, Preqin provides them with critical information leading to analytical solutions.

Preqin has produced advanced methods of collecting private data for 20 years. Its products allow a customer base of over 200,000 professionals to streamline how they raise capital, source deals and investments, understand performance, and stay informed.

As a global company, Preqin is working with software providers, world-renowned institutions, and industry associations around the globe to build innovative products, tools, and research that helps connect data to critical decisions. It's had a successful history, and will look to continue on a strong growth path ahead.

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Challenging work

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Company benefits

  • Hybrid workplace & flexible holiday allowance
  • Parental leave: maternity & paternity leave policies
  • Pension/retirement contributions: contributions are matched up to 10% after 1 year's service (US & UK)
  • Subsidized medical insurance
  • Bereavement leave
  • Annual personal study support allowance of $1,500/£900
  • Discounted gym membership (US & UK)
  • Access to discount & reward programs

Company values

  • Be Customer Obsessed: We exist for our customers. We listen to them and understand their challenges. We design best-in-class data solutions for their success.
  • Act with Integrity: We build trust through honesty and transparency. We're committed to doing the right thing for our customers, our company, and each other.
  • Own Your Success: We're a high-performance team. We challenge and champion each other in our pursuit of excellence. We never stop learning and strive to become experts in our fields.
  • Think Forward: We lead the industry through innovation. We foster collaboration and creativity to solve our clients' next challenge and give them a competitive advantage.
  • Make an Impact: We drive postive change as individuals, and as a company. We're passionate about creating a better tomorrow for our industry and our communities.

Company HQ

Victoria, London, UK

Leadership

Mark O'Hare

(Managing Director)

Previously a Manager at The Boston Consulting Group and CEO of Citywatch.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Preqin

  • Our company vision is to create an environment where diversity and inclusion are at its core and our differences are valued. An environment where we actively celebrate and support each other, no matter our visible or invisible differences. ​ We believe that every person has the right to work in a safe and welcoming environment and that’s why we commit to being a truly inclusive employer that integrates DEI throughout all of our operations, whilst investing in and empowering our people.
  • Launched our DEI Steering Committee in October 2020. They hold sessions regularly to support and guide Preqin’s DEI initiatives, with active leadership from our CEO.
  • Workshops, fireside talks and external guest speakers discussing important topics such as, navigating challenges for women in senior leadership, menopause and managing stress.

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