Lead Production Infrastructure Support/SRE
Job title: Lead Production Infrastructure Support/SREClient: Global Tech-Driven Trading FirmLocation: NYC (Hybrid)Salary: Up to $300K USD + Industry-Leading Bonus + Exceptional BenefitsMy client is seeking a hands-on Production Infrastructure Support Lead to oversee a globally distributed function responsible for mission-critical trading infrastructure and platform services.This is an opportunity to lead a high-performing engineering support team (they're hiring both for a global and regional lead).You’ll play a key role in driving reliability, automation, operational excellence, and scalability across a complex global infrastructure estate supporting front-office trading systems.RoleLead and coordinate a global infrastructure engineering functionHeavy involvement in process improvement, automation, and toolingPartner with engineering and platform teams to improve observability, self-service, and incident response capabilitiesRemain hands-on with troubleshooting, outage management, and critical production incidentsMentor and develop engineers across multiple regions within a collaborative engineering cultureSkills / ExperienceStrong Linux/Unix systems administration experience within enterprise or trading environmentsPrevious experience leading infrastructure, platform, or production support teamsExcellent understanding of CI/CD, automation, orchestration, and modern infrastructure toolingExperience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or ChefStrong networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, multicast, NTP/PTP, and packet-level troubleshootingExperience supporting highly available, business-critical environments under pressureStrong communication, organisational, and stakeholder management skillsKnowledge of storage technologies such as NFS or distributed file systems is beneficialITIL or service management exposure is advantageousSellsLead a globally distributed team supporting mission-critical trading systemsHighly technical, hands-on leadership role with real ownership and impactWork alongside elite engineers within a fast-moving trading environmentStrong focus on automation, scalability, and operational innovationOpportunity to shape support strategy and platform reliability at a global scaleCollaborative, engineering-first culture with significant growth potential