Systems Reliability Engineer
Job Requisition Number:39363
Europe Middle East and Africa
London - GBR
The Role:
As a Systems Reliability Engineer working on Bloomberg's critical services, your mission will be to ensure Bloomberg is fast, highly available, scalable, and able to withstand unprecedented increases in load. In this role you will be at the heart of solving production problems. Your scope is from the kernel to the application. The position requires the flexibility to take a holistic approach to troubleshooting and the ability to delve deeply into technical details. The team is co-located with the various application development teams and will report directly to the Systems Reliability Engineering organisation for oversight, strategic direction, training and career development. The Systems Reliability Engineer will build automation tools for system health, production acceptance tests to validate production changes and will ensure the system is well instrumented and highly fault tolerant.
Responsibilities:
Manage availability, latency, scalability and efficiency of Bloomberg applications development by instilling engineering reliability into our development life cycle with a focus on fault tolerant approaches
Respond to and resolve unexpected and potential service problems and write software to prevent problem recurrence
Drive capacity planning, performance analysis, instrumentation and other non-functional systems requirements
Review and influence ongoing design, architecture, standards and methods for improving operating services
Manage system releases, write production software acceptance tests and coordinate all aspects of the release including coverage and communication plans
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Experience as a Software Engineer or Development of customer-facing, high-availability, large scale distributed applications
Experience in C or C++, Java technologies
Experience with PHP, Python, Ruby or other scripting languages
Extensive experience with Linux/Unix
Desired
Qualifications:
Prior successful experience as a systems performance or site/systems reliability engineer
Extensive experience working with fault tolerant approaches in a large scale distributed environment and high performance systems.
Demonstrated experience working in large, complex systems environments
Deep understanding of internet and networking protocols
A passion for performance excellence, robustness and engineering mindset
Experience in a high-volume or critical production service environment
Expertise analysing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
Knowledge of IP networking, network analysis and performance and application issues using standard tools such as tcpdump
Ability to handle periodic on-call duty as well as out-of-band requests
The Company:
Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company s strength – delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately – is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 315,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg s enterprise solutions build on the company s core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Government, Bloomberg New Energy Finance and Bloomberg BNA, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through the Bloomberg Professional service, television, radio, mobile, the Internet and three magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets and Bloomberg Pursuits, covers the world with more than 2,400 news and multimedia professionals at more than 150 bureaus in 73 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 15,000 people in 192 locations around the world.
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