Site Reliability Engineer - PSRE
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will manage incident response, monitor system health, and build automation tools to ensure the stability and reliability of Arcesium's financial technology platform. The role requires expertise in Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure (AWS), and incident management to support mission-critical production applications.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Lisbon
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Category
- Sre
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Up to 5 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, or Production Engineering role
- Incident management expertise, including triaging, escalation, and resolution of high-severity outages
- Proficiency in at least one coding language (Python or Java)
- Hands-on experience in Kubernetes (K8s)
- Cloud experience (AWS preferred)
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Fluency in English (spoken and written)
- Must have the legal right to work in the country
Nice to have
- Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation
- Experience with monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Familiarity with web application architectures
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows
Full description
Company Overview
Arcesium is a global financial technology firm that solves complex data-driven challenges faced by some of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions. We constantly innovate our platform and capabilities to meet tomorrow’s challenges, anticipate the risks our clients encounter, and design advanced solutions to help our clients achieve transformational business outcomes.
Financial technology is a high-growth industry as change and innovation continue to disrupt the status-quo and prompt major transformation. Arcesium is at a particularly interesting time in our own growth as we look to leverage our successfully established market position and expand operations in pursuit of strategic new business opportunities. We value intellectual curiosity, proactive ownership, and collaboration with colleagues, and we empower you to meaningfully contribute from day one and accelerate your professional development.
About the Role and the Team
We are looking for an intelligent, resourceful, and highly skilled Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Platform Site Reliability Engineering (PSRE) team. This team plays a critical role in ensuring the stability, reliability, and availability of mission-critical production applications on the Arcesium platform.
The PSRE team is responsible for:
- Observability, monitoring, logging, and tracing to proactively detect and prevent issues.
- Building tools and infrastructure that enhance system stability and resilience.
- Troubleshooting live production issues with a deep focus on rapid incident resolution.
- Governing, declaring, managing, and recovering from platform-wide incidents to minimize downtime and business impact.
As an SRE in this high-impact team, you will work under tight timelines in a high-pressure environment, where every second counts in resolving critical production incidents. This means you must be quick-thinking, highly analytical, and proactive in preventing and resolving disruptions.
What You Will Do:
- Incident Management: Serve as a primary contact and leader for incidents and critical issues impacting our platform during NY business hours. Take ownership of incidents, drive effective communication, and facilitate swift resolution by collaborating with relevant engineering teams.
- Proactive Monitoring & Analysis: Continuously monitor the health and performance of our applications and infrastructure. Analyze trends, identify potential risks, and proactively implement measures to prevent incidents and improve overall system reliability.
- Troubleshooting & Problem Solving: Troubleshoot complex technical issues across various layers of the stack (application, infrastructure, network). Utilize your analytical skills and technical expertise to identify root causes and implement effective solutions.