Cloud Platform Engineer: AWS, CI/CD & Observability

Validus Risk Management; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial technology firm is seeking a Platform Engineer to enhance their AWS infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. The role involves developing cloud-native services, collaborating with Quant teams for scalable solutions, and integrating third-party tools. Candidates should have at least 1 year of experience with Python and AWS, with a strong knowledge of databases and CI/CD practices. This role offers a salary between $80,000 and $100,000 along with generous benefits and bonuses.

Benefits

Generous bonus

20 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

Private health insurance

Learning & development allowance

Qualifications

• Minimum 1+ year of commercial experience with Python in a Platform, Back-end or DevOps setting.
• Experience with AWS services like Lambda, ECS, RDS, and S3.
• Experience with MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, or other databases.
• Experience in building and optimising CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of monitoring tools and event-driven microservices.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain cloud-native services on AWS.
• Collaborate with the Quant team for scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Improve job scheduling framework for quantitative workloads.
• Integrate and maintain third-party tools for platform operations.
• Enhance monitoring and observability across systems.
• Support containerisation of services on AWS.

Skills

Python

AWS

CI/CD Pipelines

Database Technologies

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Monitoring and Observability

Microservices Architecture

Strong Communication Skills

Tools

CDK

Terraform

Pulumi

DataDog

New Relic

Job description

A financial technology firm is seeking a Platform Engineer to enhance their AWS infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. The role involves developing cloud-native services, collaborating with Quant teams for scalable solutions, and integrating third-party tools. Candidates should have at least 1 year of experience with Python and AWS, with a strong knowledge of databases and CI/CD practices. This role offers a salary between $80,000 and $100,000 along with generous benefits and bonuses.