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Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Kubernetes
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human
Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.
Workforce Identity Cloud
Okta Workforce Identity Cloud (WIC) provides easy, secure access for your workforce so you can focus on other strategic priorities—like reducing costs, and doing more for your customers.
If you like to be challenged and have a passion for solving large-scale automation, testing, and tuning problems, we would love to hear from you. The ideal candidate is someone who exemplifies the ethics of, “If you have to do something more than once, automate it” and who can rapidly self-educate on new concepts and tools.
Position Overview:
The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will play a key role in building and managing Kubernetes platforms that support cloud-native applications and services. This position focuses on architecting and managing reliable, scalable, and secure Kubernetes-based platforms on AWS, ensuring high availability and performance while optimizing costs and automation. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes platform creation, Helm charts, Karpenter scaling, and Istio service mesh.
Key Responsibilities:
- Kubernetes Platform Creation: Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant Kubernetes platforms. Ensure clusters are optimized for production workloads, providing high resilience and operational efficiency.
- AWS Infrastructure Management: Build, manage, and optimize AWS cloud infrastructure, including EKS,ECS, S3, VPCs, RDS, IAM, and more. Implement best practices for cost management, scaling, and security within AWS.
- Helm Management: Utilize Helm to automate and streamline the deployment of applications and services to Kubernetes clusters. Create, maintain, and manage Helm charts for production-ready deployments.
- Karpenter Implementation: Implement and manage Karpenter to dynamically scale Kubernetes clusters in response to workload demands.
- Istio Service Mesh Management: Configure and manage Istio to provide service-to-service communication, security, and observability within the Kubernetes clusters. Enable fine-grained traffic management, service discovery, and policy enforcement.
- Platform Automation & Scaling: Automate the deployment, scaling, and management of infrastructure and applications. Work with CI/CD pipelines to ensure a seamless flow from development to production with minimal downtime.
- Incident Management & Troubleshooting: Respond to incidents, troubleshoot, and resolve system issues related to performance, availability, and security in a timely and effective manner.
- Security & Compliance: Design and implement secure cloud infrastructure with appropriate access controls, network security, and compliance frameworks.
- Documentation & Knowledge Sharing: Create and maintain detailed documentation for Kubernetes platform setup, operational procedures, and best practices. Promote knowledge sharing across teams.
Required Qualifications:
- 4+ years of experience with Kubernetes/Helm;
- 4+ years of Experience with Terraform.
- 5+ years of Experience with AWS
- Experience with multi-region cloud environments.
- Proven experience with AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFormation, IAM, etc.) and solid understanding of cloud-native architectures.
- Strong expertise in Kubernetes platform creation, management, and optimisation (e.g., setting up highly available clusters, networking, and storage).
- Hands-on experience with Helm for Kubernetes application deployment and management.
- Practical experience with Karpenter for dynamic scaling of Kubernetes clusters and optimising resource usage.
Expertise in managing and securing Istio for service mesh, including traffic management, security, and observability features. - Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI, Terraform, Ansible, Spinnaker).
Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, or Go for infrastructure management and platform automation. - Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and ELK Stack.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Understanding of security best practices for cloud platforms and Kubernetes (e.g., role-based access control (RBAC), encryption, and compliance frameworks).
- Familiarity with Docker and containerization principles.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent professional experience).
- Certifications (Preferred): CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Application Developer), or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer are highly desirable.
Additional requirements:
- This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data. As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire.
- Requires in-person onboarding and travel to our San Francisco, CA HQ office or our Chicago office during the first week of employment.
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requisition ID- (P16373_3396241)
Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us.
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We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.
Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.
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Quantitative Business Analyst
As part of a lean Business Team, you’ll work directly with a range of functions and their leads to design, optimize and execute tools and processes for business operations and business development. You will also be responsible for both internal and external communication to partners and vendors regarding our business compliance and trading operations.
You’ll conduct research to help evaluate new business opportunities, and build dashboards, predictive models, and other tools to inform data-driven business decisions.
COMPENSATION – Competitive salary, plus quarterly bonus based on individual performance and contribution towards success of others and the firm.
Qualifications
We’re looking for highly analytical people with 0-5 years of experience who want to help build the research-driven trading firm of the future. The individual wants to help manage our business operations for the existing business (research, technology, and operations) functions by improving communication, code and any other necessary elements.
To do that, you’ll need the following qualities:
- Proficient at data mining, extraction and organization of raw format data from various sources such as accounting systems, gitlab, and more. Experience, or a desire to learn, Tableau & other user interface tools that require data-input and entries is helpful as well.
- Proficient in Python coding, especially in scripting and automation
- Technically capable in other areas of computing, such as algorithmic design in C++ or has a strong desire to become proficient in it.
- Detail oriented and can easily identify key influencing factors; able to quickly retain historical highlights to focus on future improvements.
- Results driven: able to drive tasks to completion in a timely manner.
- Ability to multitask: iterate quickly towards a better solution while not dropping the ball on other concurrent functions.
- Analytical: ability to understand the full scope and depth of the issue, able to solve for the long-term.
- Strong self-awareness and high emotional intelligence to assist with interpersonal and communication improvements.
- Must work well independently
Ready to apply?
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Senior Software Engineer
Who We Are
Founded in 1980 as Aardvark Financial, TransMarket Group (TMG) is a privately held global markets proprietary trading firm in Chicago. We use next-generation technology to capture opportunities around the world and manage risk in financial markets. Our mission is to bless others through the services we provide and through the generous stewardship of the wealth we create.
TMG is a well-established and profitable business as a respected member of the global financial system for over 40 years, but also is like a startup because the potential of our group is at least one order of magnitude greater than what we are currently producing. We have an entrepreneurial culture and collaboratively develop our business with patience and discipline; we work hard, learn constantly, and relentlessly improve our expertise.
Description
Our Software development team designs and builds low-latency systems that allow us to trade a diverse set of instruments across a wide range of financial marketplaces. This smaller, focused team comes with a high degree of responsibility and ownership. Our systems aim to be clean and understandable while achieving low latency and robust error tolerance. The libraries you work on will become the engine of our firm’s strategies.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement network connectivity, market data, and execution libraries for our automated trading software platform
- Work closely with our strategy teams to understand how they consume the software you write, so that you can anticipate and deliver future improvements
- Leverage libraries you've worked on to facilitate backtesting and post-trade analysis of our trading strategies
- Tune and refine existing components to improve performance, flexibility, and stability
- Tools: C++, Python, Bash, Linux, SQL
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or technical field, plus five years of experience in software engineering, or a Master’s degree in a quantitative or technical field, plus three years of experience in software engineering
- 2-3 years of previous experience with implementing low-latency connectivity at any major exchange in C++
- Strong knowledge of engineering software systems for low latency
- Excellent technical and non-technical communication skills
- Passion for the trading industry and interest in interfacing with multi-disciplinary trading teams
- Proficiency in C++, multithreading, IPC, automated testing and benchmarking, lock-free data structures, Linux, Solarflare network stack
- Experience with Python and/or Bash scripting, SQL, Gitlab CI/CD preferred
- This position requires physical presence and is on-site (no remote work)
Benefits
We offer one of the most generous profit sharing programs in the industry because we believe our employees should be able to take part in our rapid growth and success. We are proud to offer more world-class benefits for our full-time employees and their families.
TransMarket Group is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.
Ready to apply?
Apply to TransMarket Group
Who we are:
At Focused, we move quickly to deliver quality software that achieves client outcomes and meets their customer’s needs. We strategically partner with our clients to leverage our expertise in design and software, while our clients bring their own domain expertise. We work with a variety of clients from different industries, collaborating as we get new products to market, modernizing legacy systems, or helping teams learn the skills they need to be successful.
Our values:
- Listen first • We are experts in product practices but life long learners in the domain of our customers. We research, collaborate, and understand.
- Learn why • We ask questions and talk to users to understand problem spaces, objectives, and goals, which allows us to deeply invest and drive towards the outcomes of our clients.
- Love your craft • We love diving into a variety of domains and solving problems. We take pride in delivering value, in communicating progress, and guiding our clients to success.
We are seeking an experienced Observability Consultant with deep expertise in OpenTelemetry and strong Platform Engineering capabilities to help organizations implement, optimize, and scale their observability infrastructure. This role requires a specialist who can design comprehensive telemetry strategies, implement distributed tracing solutions, establish robust monitoring practices, and interface closely with clients on the observability journey.
Key Responsibilities:
OpenTelemetry & Observability
- Design and implement end-to-end OpenTelemetry solutions across diverse technology stacks
- Configure and deploy OpenTelemetry Collectors for efficient data collection, processing, sampling, and routing
- Establish telemetry pipelines for metrics, traces, and logs across microservices architectures
- Optimize collector configurations for performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness
Platform Engineering & Infrastructure
- Augment existing infrastructure with with integrated observability solutions
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, etc.
- Architect and manage Kubernetes clusters with comprehensive monitoring and logging
- Build CI/CD pipelines with embedded observability and automated testing
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- Establish and maintain Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Objectives (SLOs), and Agreements (SLAs)
- Implement error budgets, toil reduction strategies, and capacity planning
- Support incident response procedures and post-mortem processes
Cloud & DevOps Engineering
- Deploy and manage observability infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure
- Establish security, compliance, and governance frameworks for telemetry data
- Experience automating Agent Evaluations in CI/CD pipelines and observability backends.
Required Qualifications:
Core Observability & OpenTelemetry
- 3-5 years of experience in observability, monitoring, and distributed systems
- Deep hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry ecosystem, including SDKs, APIs, and specifications
- Proficiency with OpenTelemetry Collector configuration, processors, exporters, and receivers
- Strong understanding of telemetry data models, semantic conventions, and instrumentation best practices
Platform Engineering & DevOps
- 5+ years of Platform Engineering or DevOps experience with focus on site reliability, observability, and incident response
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, CDK)
- Strong experience with CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD)
Cloud & Infrastructure
- Hands-on experience with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their observability services
- Experience with container technologies (Docker, Podman) and container registries
- Knowledge of networking, security, load balancing, and distributed systems concepts
Site Reliability Engineering
- Experience implementing SRE practices including error budgets and toil metrics
- Proficiency in incident management, on-call procedures, and post-mortem culture
- Experience with capacity planning, performance optimization, and scalability design
Programming & Automation
- Proficiency in multiple programming languages preferred (Go, Python, Java, Node.js, Rust)
- Strong scripting and automation skills (Bash, Python, PowerShell)
- Understanding of software engineering best practices and testing methodologies
Preferred Qualifications (Exceptional Candidates)
AI & Agentic Frameworks
- Understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs) and their application in DevOps
- Knowledge of vector databases, embeddings, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- Experience with AI/ML model deployment and monitoring in production environments
Leadership & Communication
- Strong technical writing and documentation skills
- Ability to present complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders
- A passion for knowledge sharing
Key Competencies
- Systems thinking and ability to design holistic observability solutions
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills for complex distributed systems
- Curiosity about emerging technologies, particularly AI applications in operations
- Adaptability to rapidly evolving cloud-native and observability technologies
- Collaborative mindset with focus on enabling developer productivity and system reliability
What Sets Exceptional Candidates Apart:
- Experience with Honeycomb
- Contributions to open-source observability or AI framework projects
- Track record of implementing platform engineering solutions that significantly improved developer experience
- Experience scaling observability infrastructure to handle high event volume
What to know before you apply:
- This role will require being in the Chicago office three days per week and up to 20% travel within the United States.
- Focused is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of the employment Visa process at this time.
- The Chicago base salary range for this role is $130,000 - $170,000.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Focused
DevOps/SRE Intern
Who We Are
Founded in 1980 as Aardvark Financial, TransMarket Group (TMG) is a privately held global markets proprietary trading firm in Chicago. We use next-generation technology to capture opportunities around the world and manage risk in financial markets. Our mission is to bless others through the services we provide and through the generous stewardship of the wealth we create.
TMG is a well-established and profitable business as a respected member of the global financial system for over 40 years, but also is like a startup because the potential of our group is at least one order of magnitude greater than what we are currently producing. We have an entrepreneurial culture and collaboratively develop our business with patience and discipline; we work hard, learn constantly, and relentlessly improve our expertise.
Description
As a DevOps/SRE intern, you will be a part of a team which directly works on projects that span every level of our technology stack at TransMarket Group. From developing systems that automate the building, testing, and deployment of latency-sensitive trading applications, to designing and implementing critical back-office data flows and applications, your work will enable us to systematically improve our software. This, in turn, will tighten feedback loops and accelerate application development, directly contributing to increased P&L at the firm.
While closely interacting with our global technology teams, you’ll need to strike a careful balance between reliability and innovation. Given the breadth of the projects you will be involved in, no two days will feel the same. The ideal candidate will be self-driven and excited to learn about our trading operations from top to bottom.
Responsibilities
- Provide day to day support of the firm’s proprietary software trading environment
- Work directly with our Traders, Trade Developers, Platform Developers, and IT Team to automate and maintain systems for deployment of trading software, configuration management, CI/CD and backtesting pipelines
- Work with end users to design monitoring and alerting systems that can be used to catch and diagnose issues in real time to help ensure the health of our trading environment
- Designing and maintaining continuous delivery pipelines for our trading platform components.
- Building and maintaining infrastructure monitoring and alerting systems to help us quickly diagnose and resolve issues.
- Collaborating with co-workers on designing applications and platform components to meet automation requirements.
- Ensuring that software and infrastructure components are up-to-date and free of any security vulnerabilities
- Systematising and then documenting new and existing processes to help us tame our ever changing IT operations
- Working on automated provisioning of new servers and updating existing ones
- Working as part of an in-office team to collaborate directly with our experienced traders and technologists on brainstorming and implementing creative solutions to a wide range of problems.
Requirements
- Pursuing a BA/BS/MS Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or related industry experience
- Must be fluent in Python (or any other programming language at the time of interview).
- Proficient with code collaboration tools (git, GitLab / GitHub / Bitbucket)
- Basics of container-based technology (Docker)
- Basic understanding of how infrastructure management tools work (Ansible or Puppet)
- Basic understanding of CI/CD tools (GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
- Basic understanding of monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana.
- Preferred:
- Understanding of database design and administration.
- Interest in financial markets and trading software.
Benefits
We offer one of the most generous profit sharing programs in the industry because we believe our employees should be able to take part in our rapid growth and success. We are proud to offer more world-class benefits for our full-time employees and their families.
TransMarket Group is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.
Ready to apply?
Apply to TransMarket Group
Tosca Architects
About TTC
The Testing Consultancy (TTC) is a global specialist software testing company with a focus on helping organizations transform the way they deliver quality software. We have broad capabilities across a wide range of testing areas that our clients to increase the speed and quality of software development while reducing risk and cost.
Perks of working for TTC
- Competitive Base Salary
- Medical, Dental, Vision Benefits
- 401K w/ company match
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Work Life Balance
- Relaxed Work Environment
- Growth and Development Opportunities
What we're seeking
The Test Architect plays a key strategic role responsible for defining, designing, and implementing the overall test architecture, frameworks, and quality standards across the software development lifecycle. This role ensures that testing practices are efficient, scalable, and aligned with business and technical objectives. Previous work experience of Tricentis tools (Tosca and Qtest mandatory)
As a senior member of the quality engineering team, the Test Architect collaborates with cross-functional teams including development, DevOps, product, and business stakeholders. The test architect will provide technical leadership in test automation, CI/CD integration, performance testing, and test data management, while also mentoring QA teams and championing best practices.
This role is critical in building a culture of continuous quality, driving innovation in testing approaches, and ensuring high levels of software reliability, performance, and customer satisfaction.
Working 4 days at onsite is mandatory (zero exceptions)
Requirements
- Designing enterprise-level test strategies and roadmaps
- Strong understanding of test lifecycle, SDLC, and DevOps/Agile methodologies
- Ability to align testing with business goals and technical constraints
- Knowledge of test environment management and service virtualization
- Define the overall test architecture for systems and applications.
- Create test strategies that align with development goals (Agile, DevOps, CI/CD).
- Select appropriate testing tools and frameworks based on the project requirements.
- Plan for different testing types: functional, non-functional, regression, automation, performance, security, etc.
- Design and develop scalable, maintainable, and reusable test automation frameworks.
- Choose and implement suitable test design patterns (e.g., Page Object Model, BDD, Keyword-driven testing).
- Ensure frameworks support cross-platform testing (web, mobile, APIs).
- Guide and mentor QA engineers, test leads, and automation testers.
- Collaborate with DevOps teams to integrate automated tests in CI/CD pipelines.
- Advocate for best practices in testing, code quality, and test coverage.
- Evaluate and recommend test tools (Tricentis application mandatory).
- Set up and manage test environments and infrastructure (test labs, cloud testing, device farms).
- Ensure test data management and mock services are in place for isolated testing.
- Work closely with product owners, developers, DevOps, and business analysts.
- Mentor QA and automation teams in Tosca scripting, best practices, and debugging.
- Act as a Tosca SME (Subject Matter Expert) to support multiple test teams across projects.
- Facilitate workshops, training sessions, and reviews on Tosca and CI/CD tooling.
- Present test metrics, dashboards, and reports to stakeholders.
- Participate in architecture reviews and sprint planning meetings.
- Define and track test automation KPIs (coverage, flakiness, stability).
- Use Tosca Reporting, dashboards, and integrations with Jira or test management tools for visibility.
- Identify quality trends and escalate risks early.
- Define strategies for performance, load, scalability, and security testing.
- Guide teams in setting up performance benchmarks and tools (e.g., NeoLoad).
- Research emerging technologies and trends in testing and automation.
- Continuously evolve the test process based on feedback and retrospectives.
- Implement AI/ML in testing, shift-left strategies, and self-healing tests where applicable.
Common Skills & Tools
- Automation: Tricentis Tool Tosca
- Test Management Tools: qTest, Jira
- CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps
- Cloud & DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure
- Programming: Java, Python, JavaScript, etc.
- Tosca: Modules, Test Case Design, TDS, DEX, Tosca Commander, Tosca CI
- Manufacturing experience preferred
If your experience or qualifications is similar to our ideal of a successful candidate, please consider applying. Experience comes in many ways; skills may be transferred, but passion for your career can't be substituted. At TTC, we understand the importance of diversity and how much value it brings to the table. Diversity brings about creativity and new perspectives, which is why we beckon everyone to apply.
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