Platform Reliability Engineer

Budapest, District V. - hybrid work model (2 days/week on-site)

Our partner, a global, US-based investment firm, is looking for talented individuals to contribute to data-driven strategies across international markets by analyzing inefficiencies and generating predictive alpha signals. The company fosters a collaborative, intellectually curious culture where great ideas are welcomed. Technologists play a key role in building their own platforms while collaborating with researchers and portfolio managers through high-impact engineering.

Platform Reliability Engineer

They are seeking a Platform Reliability Engineer to join a highly specialized team of exceptionally talented yet refreshingly humble individuals from diverse disciplines. They believe that delivering exceptional services requires the ability to make meaningful changes across the entire stack. Their mission is to solve real business challenges, reduce operational complexities, and foster a collaborative, team-driven environment that promotes mutual growth and success. 

As a Platform Reliability Engineer, you will play a key role in managing and optimizing the operational aspects of the server and network infrastructure for a large financial buy-side organization. Your primary focus will be on reducing operational overhead, optimizing systems, managing configurations, and ensuring the reliability and performance of critical infrastructure.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or other infrastructure engineering roles, preferably within the financial industry.
• Strong understanding of Linux system internals, including kernel operations, memory management, and performance optimization.
• In-depth knowledge of storage technologies, particularly those used in high-performance computing (GPFS experience is a plus).
• Broad understanding of IT infrastructure components, such as networking, DNS, NTP/PTP, and NIS.
• Proficiency in system automation, monitoring, and self-healing (experience with Salt is a plus).
• Experience with container orchestration and virtualization technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Nomad, VMware).
• Familiarity with on-premises and cloud-based HPC infrastructure (operational knowledge of Slurm and GPU is a plus).
• Understanding of AI technologies and their applications in infrastructure automation and management. Experience with or a strong interest in implementing AI/ML solutions for infrastructure optimization, anomaly detection, or predictive analytics.
• A passion for technology and automation, with a deep sense of curiosity and ownership.
• A hands-on approach to problem-solving and a demonstrable enthusiasm for technology.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities

• Ensure the production reliability of the firm’s Linux-based research and trading platform as part of a globally distributed engineering team
• Provide rapid emergency response to production infrastructure issues.
• Proactively understand internal clients’ needs and effectively communicate them to leadership at both regional and global levels.
• Identify risks, develop contingency plans, and implement solutions to mitigate them.
• Develop and enhance the observability platform to monitor the performance and health of critical computing environments.
• Participate in occasional (monthly) on-call rotations and support on-call staff during their shifts.
• Contribute to organizational knowledge through documentation, education, and writing maintainable code.

Our partner offers

• Core benefits include premium private health insurance and life insurance with savings plan  
• Support for every aspect of life through Employee Assistance Program and fully covered sick leave 
• Strong culture of learning and development: training courses, library, guest speakers, share and learn events, global conferences 
• Regular offsite team buildings, annual conferences and occasional global summits – opportunity to travel and connect with their local and global teams 
• Employee resources groups with strong diversity and inclusion culture

Deployment & DevOps