Associate Platform Reliability Engineer

Job Description

About Us

Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (Jefferies, we, us or our) is a U.S.-headquartered global full service, integrated investment banking and securities firm. Our largest subsidiary, Jefferies LLC, a U.S. broker-dealer, was founded in the U.S. in 1962 and our first international operating subsidiary, Jefferies International Limited, a U.K. broker-dealer, was established in the U.K. in 1986. Our strategy focuses on continuing to build out our investment banking effort, enhancing our capital markets businesses and further developing our Leucadia Asset Management alternative asset management platform. We offer deep sector expertise across a full range of products and services in investment banking, equities, fixed income, asset and wealth management in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Asia.

Overview

We are seeking a hands-on, technically skilled professional to join our global team as an Associate Platform Reliability Engineer. This role is critical to ensuring the stability, reliability, and resilience of Jefferies front-to-back technology infrastructure, with a focus on post-trade processing, operations, and regulatory support.

Key Responsibilities

- Collaborate with a high-performing global team to maintain plant stability across middle-office and operations applications.
- Lead incident triage, root cause analysis, and communication, with a strong focus on problem management.
- Partner with regional teams to drive technical and functional initiatives.
- Identify and eliminate manual support tasks through automation; develop tools for deployment, management, and service visibility.
- Design and implement robust monitoring and alerting systems using platforms like AppD and Open Telemetry.
- Work closely with engineering teams to support system architecture, schema design, and performance tuning.
- Troubleshoot issues across the full technology stack.

Qualifications

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in programming with Python, Go, C/C++, or C#.
- Strong foundation in computing fundamentalsdata structures, algorithms, and software design.
- Experience in application design, maintenance, and support.
- Solid understanding of SRE principles and practices.
- Proficiency in Linux/Unix and Windows Server environments.
- Hands-on experience with scripting, databases, and troubleshooting application/data access issues.
- Self-driven with a strong sense of ownership and commitment to quality.
- Excellent communication skills, able to engage both technical and business stakeholders.
- Familiarity with open-source platforms such as Redis, MongoDB, Kafka, and Elasticsearch.
- Experience configuring observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, Loki).
- Exposure to DevOps tools and technologies including Git, Jenkins, Ansible.

Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer, and takes affirmative action to ensure that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.

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Please note that any email contact with Jefferies personnel will come from an @jefferies.com email address. Further, Jefferies will not notify shortlisted candidates through social media platforms (e.g. WhatsApp or Telegram) or ask candidates to make payment to participate in the hiring process.

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