VP-Platform Reliability Engineer(SRE)

**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.

**Innovation Hub Overview**

Jefferies is creating a Technology Innovation Hub in Pune, a greenfield opportunity to build the systems that power global markets. As our first India technology center, this hub brings together hands on builders who engineer the platforms behind Jefferies’ growth across capital markets, investment banking, and institutional securities. We’re scaling toward an elite team of 500 engineers while maintaining the agility, ownership, and meritocratic spirit that defines Jefferies. From cloud and data to AI, risk, and core business technologies, teams in Pune will lead high impact work with a global mandate.

**IT Platform Reliability Engineering \& Management**

The PREM team is responsible for improving the stability, availability, and performance of Jefferies’ core services and systems. The team provides day\-to\-day support for business\-critical platforms across Equities, Fixed Income, Investment Banking, and Corporate functions, and builds tooling to strengthen observability (metrics/logs/dashboards), capacity, and performance management across distributed and cloud environments.

**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 OpenTelemetry.
* Work closely with engineering teams to support system architecture, schema design, and performance tuning.
* Troubleshoot issues across the full technology stack.

**Qualifications**

* Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
* Minimum 8 years of experience in programming with Python, Go, C/C\+\+, or C\#.
* Strong foundation in computing fundamentals—data 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.
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