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Here, innovative thinking meets creative problem-solving, helping us challenge the status quo and transform the finance industry together.\nWe believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on-site in the specified location(s).\nAs aReliability Engineering Lead within Cross Enterprise Services Site Reliability Engineering, you will drive the reliability, scalability, security, and performance of mission-critical applications and platforms. This is a Lead Individual Contributor (IC) role that requires deep technical expertise, hands-on execution, and the ability to influence engineering decisions across multiple teams.\nYou will provide hands-on technical leadership across application and infrastructure design, cloud operations, production support, observability, incident management, deployment automation, capacity planning, and operational risk detection. 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