Site Reliability Engineer - eFX/ Crypto

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Swissquote, you help ensure the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of production eFX and Crypto platforms. You focus on Kubernetes, production operations, automation, observability, and infrastructure reliability, working closely with Infrastructure and Development engineers to operate and continuously improve the production environment across on-premise and private cloud infrastructure.

What you'll do

• Monitor production systems, respond to incidents, and ensure optimal uptime and performance of applications and infrastructure.
• Operate, maintain, and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters and containerized applications in production and on-premise infrastructure.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of scalable and reliable infrastructure solutions.
• Automate IT and operational processes to reduce manual work and improve efficiency.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Monitor and improve system observability using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Elastic/Kibana.
• Analyse faults, perform root-cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Perform stress, resilience, disaster recovery, and BCP testing to validate platform stability.
• Work closely with Infrastructure and Development teams to improve production readiness and system reliability.
• Participate in the on-call rotation and provide operational support for production systems.
• Continuously improve operational processes, automation, monitoring, and reliability practices.

What you bring

• 3+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Systems Engineering, Platform Engineering, or a similar production engineering role.
• Strong hands-on Kubernetes experience in production environments, including services mesh and Istio, users management, health checks and probes, Kubernetes networking and DNS, and troubleshooting and performance issues.
• Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with Docker and container technologies.
• Hands-on experience with on-premise infrastructure and/or private cloud environments.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Elastic/Kibana.
• Good programming and scripting skills in Python and Shell.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTPS, HTTP, and load balancing.
• Good understanding of SRE principles, including SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, availability, reliability, and service performance.
• Good understanding of Java web applications and web servers such as Spring Boot and Apache Tomcat.
• Fluent English, both written and spoken, with willingness to learn French.

Nice to have

• CKA or CKAD certification.
• Experience with Helm, ArgoCD, Github Actions, or Kubernetes operators.
• Knowledge of Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Knowledge of MT4/MT5.
• Experience with Windows Server 2016/2022.
• Experience in eFX, trading, cryptocurrency, banking, or other financial services.
• Experience working with high-availability or low-latency production systems.

About Swissquote

Swissquote is Switzerland's leading digital bank with over 1,400 people across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, serving over a million clients worldwide. The company provides trading, investing, and everyday banking solutions, moving fast while building products with genuine pride.