Site Reliability Engineer I - India

Overview

An entry-level Site Reliability Engineer I role within CME Group's Customer portfolio, learning to build, operate and scale the systems behind the Customer and Clearing platform, with mentorship from senior engineers.

What you'll do

• Learn from and work alongside senior engineers to assist with building out observability, monitoring and alerting for key services.
• Shadow senior engineers as they partner with product teams to understand the reliability and scalability needs for new features.
• Write and maintain basic scripts and tools to help reduce toil and improve engineering velocity.
• Contribute to and learn from the culture of blameless post-mortems to drive continuous improvement.
• Assist with DR (Disaster Recovery) and systems resiliency testing.
• Support the migration of Customer and Clearing applications to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• After training and mentorship, begin to shadow and then participate in the on-call rotation with direct support from senior engineers.

What you'll need

• A passion for technology and a strong desire to build a career in Site Reliability Engineering.
• Foundational programming/scripting skills (e.g., Python, Java, C++, Bash) demonstrated through coursework, personal projects or internships.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities with a curious mindset.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• A profound eagerness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with cloud concepts (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure).
• Good knowledge of Linux-based systems.
• Basic understanding of containerization technologies like Docker or Kubernetes.
• An interest in metrics and monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana or Splunk.
• Foundational knowledge of networking concepts (HTTP, TCP/IP).
• An interest in financial technology and high-performance systems.