Octus
Octus is a leading global provider of credit intelligence, data, and analytics. Since 2013, tens of thousands of professionals across hedge fund, investment banking, management consulting, and law firm verticals have come to rely on Octus to make better, faster, and more confident decisions in pace with the fast-moving credit markets.
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Working at Octus
Octus hires growth-minded innovators and trailblazers across the globe to drive our business and culture. Our core values – Action Oriented, Customer First Mindset, Effective Team Players, and Driven to Excel – define an organizational ethos that’s as high-performing as it is human. Among other perks, Octus employees enjoy competitive health benefits, matched 401k and pension plans, PTO, generous parental leave, gym subsidies, educational reimbursements for career development, recognition programs, pet-friendly offices (US only), and much more.
Role
Lead, manage and build a global team of Site Reliability Engineers. Oversee incident management processes, ensuring timely response, effective resolution, and post-incident analysis to prevent future occurrences. Define and execute the overall SRE strategy and vision in alignment with business goals. Identify, assess, and mitigate incident and risks associated with our systems, applications, and infrastructure. Proactively recognize sources of instability in distributed systems and analyze how complex systems fail from a reliability and resilience perspective. Design, develop, test, and deploy high quality software and infrastructure solutions that meet business requirements and adhere to best practices and coding standards. Build observability and monitoring frameworks for applications, server infrastructure and databases. Configure alerts for website and application outage, performance degradation, resource utilization, and critical errors to proactively detect and respond to issues.
Requirements
Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field plus five (5) years of progressively responsible (or a Master’s plus two (2) years of) experience in any role/occupation/position as a Devops or SRE Engineer in the Software and/or Financial services industry. Experience must include: Detecting, troubleshooting, and resolving system, application or infrastructure incidents and issues; Defining, collecting, and analyzing metrics from operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault-finding using tools(DataDog, AWS Cloudwatch, PagerDuty, etc.); Building and designing high scale network architecture and systems; Writing code using programming languages (Python, bash, Golang, PHP, or Javascript); Implementing infrastructure as code (IaC) practices and automation tools to scale; Managing cloud resources and deployments using programming languages (Terraform, Ansible, Saltstack, etc.); Building CI/CD solutions and pipelines; Integrating, automated testing, and deploying processes into development lifecycle using Jenkins, GitHub actions, CircleCI, and Salt stack; Using Database Systems Fundamentals(MySQL/Postgres/NoSQL) to administer them at scale in distributed systems; Utilizing elastic search, redis/memcache, and MongoDB Database technologies; and Working with event driven systems and messaging infrastructure (Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS Kinesis, etc.).
At Octus, we consider a range of factors in connection with compensation decisions, including experience, skills, location, and our business needs and limitations. As a result, compensation may vary within and across similar roles and positions. Please note that the salary range information below is a good faith estimate for this position and actual compensation for any individual may fall outside this range if warranted by the circumstances applicable to that individual. If we identify a role that would be suitable for a broader range of skills and experience such that we would consider hiring at multiple levels then the range listed below may reflect that breadth.
The salary range estimate for this position is $180,000 - $230,000.
The actual compensation will be at Octus’ sole discretion and will be determined by the aforementioned and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for an additional annual discretionary bonus.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Octus is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse work environment where all individuals are valued, respected, and treated fairly. We believe that diversity enriches our workplace and enhances our ability to innovate and succeed.
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What We Do
Founded in 2013, Reorg has fundamentally changed the way financial and legal professionals access complex and opaque business information.
Our unique editorial team combines reporting with financial and legal analysis to provide a holistic view of topical situations and delivers that view in real time through our proprietary platform, which is powered by machine learning and natural language processing applications.
Today, with offices on three continents, Reorg serves 26,000 professionals across the world’s leading hedge funds, asset managers, investment banks, law firms and financial advisors so they can make better business, investment and advisory decisions. Our vision is to be the best-in-class provider of complex and opaque credit information delivered in a clear, actionable way.
Why Work With Us
Reorg hires innovators and trailblazers across the globe to drive our business and our incredible corporate culture alike. Our core values define an organizational ethos that’s as high-performing as it is human. Reorg employees enjoy competitive health benefits, matched 401k and pension plans, and educational reimbursements for career development.
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Octus Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Reorg has adopted a hybrid working policy. For non-remote employees located within a reasonable commuting distance to one of our offices, the requirement is to work from the office at least 2 days per week.
