AWS Platform Engineer

Job Description – AWS Platform Engineer (Financial Systems)

About the Role

We are seeking a Platform Engineer to take full ownership of mission-critical financial systems within an investment banking environment. This role is not a traditional “support” function — it requires a hands-on engineer who can ensure system resilience, reliability, and operational excellence across On-Premise and AWS-hosted environments.

The ideal candidate is a hardcore technical engineer who can automate, troubleshoot, and optimize platforms end-to-end while driving operational maturity.

Key Responsibilities

• System Ownership & Reliability

• Take complete responsibility for assigned financial systems and ensure high availability.

• Troubleshoot complex issues across infrastructure, applications, and integrations.
• Conduct root cause analysis and implement permanent fixes to prevent recurrences.

• Operational Excellence

• Design and manage Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies; conduct periodic DR drills.

• Ensure timely patching,

  upgrades, and compliance with security standards.

• Define and manage

  backup and restore strategies

  .
• Build monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks to proactively detect issues.

• SRE & Automation

• Apply Site Reliability Engineering principles

  to improve system performance and resilience.
• Automate operational tasks (deployments, failover tests, log analysis, scaling).
• Develop tooling and scripts (Python, Shell, Ansible) for efficiency and reliability.
• Implement self-healing mechanisms and runbooks for predictable operations.

• Cloud & Hybrid Environments

• Engineer and operate systems deployed on On-Prem and AWS platforms

  .

• Leverage key AWS services such as EC2, ECS/Fargate, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, Lambda, and VPC networking.

• Work closely with infrastructure teams to optimize scalability and performance.

Required Skills & Experience

• Technical Skills

• 5–10 years in platform engineering within financial services or capital markets.

• Strong

  SRE (Site Reliability Engineering)

  experience focused on automation, observability, and resilience.
• Expertise in

  Linux/Windows environments

  .
• Hands-on with key

  AWS services (EC2, ECS/Fargate, RDS, S3, IAM, Lambda, VPC)

  .
• Strong

  automation and scripting skills (Python, Shell, Ansible, Terraform preferred)

  .
• Proficiency in

  monitoring/observability tools (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.).

• Operational Expertise
• Proven experience in

  patching, DR, backup, monitoring, and system hardening.

• Strong troubleshooting skills across applications, middleware, and databases.
• Familiarity with incident, problem, and change management frameworks (ITIL preferred).
• Preferred
• Exposure to financial applications (Front Arena, Calypso, Murex, or similar).
• Strong background in automation-driven operations and performance tuning.

Soft Skills

• Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Calm, decisive, and resilient in high-pressure financial environments.
• Collaborative, with excellent communication skills across business and technical teams.
• Passionate about automation and continuous improvement.

Why Join Us?

• This is an opportunity for a technical leader

  who wants to

  own platforms end-to-end

  , applying

  SRE principles

  to financials systems that are critical to investment banking operations. You will play a pivotal role in making these systems

  highly reliable, scalable, and secure

  .