Platform Engineer

About the Role

We are seeking a Platform Engineer

hardcore technical engineer

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

  highly reliable, scalable, and secure

  .