Our client is looking for a Head of Reliability Engineering – Trading Infrastructure to lead scalable, fault-tolerant, and high-performance trading infrastructure for mission-critical real-time systems.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the reliability engineering function across trading infrastructure and production platforms.

- Architect and operate highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems supporting live trading environments.

- Own infrastructure reliability, observability, scalability, deployment safety, and operational excellence across mission-critical systems.

- Drive platform engineering initiatives across Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, runtime orchestration, and developer tooling.

- Partner closely with trading, quant, and backend engineering teams to optimize latency, throughput, resiliency, and production stability.

- Build and standardize monitoring, alerting, tracing, logging, failover testing, disaster recovery, and incident response frameworks.

- Lead root cause analysis and resolution for complex production and distributed systems issues.

- Strengthen infrastructure security, auditability, secrets management, and operational governance across trading environments.

- Improve engineering productivity through automation, internal tooling, and infrastructure self-service capabilities.





- Define operational best practices, reliability standards, release governance, and infrastructure lifecycle management processes.

- Mentor and help scale the future reliability and platform engineering organization.

Required Experience

- 7–12 years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Reliability Engineering, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Distributed Systems environments.

- Strong experience operating mission-critical production systems in high-availability environments.

- Deep expertise in Linux systems, networking, and distributed infrastructure architecture.

- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized production environments.

- Strong programming ability in Go or Python.

- Experience with Kafka, Terraform, Vault, Consul, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation frameworks.

- Strong understanding of observability platforms including Prometheus, Alertmanager, logging, and tracing systems.

- Proven expertise debugging complex distributed systems and low-latency production environments.

- Experience in trading systems, fintech, exchanges, HFT firms, or other real-time infrastructure environments is highly preferred.

- Robust ownership mindset with the ability to operate in high-performance engineering environments

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