Platform Engineer - DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure 3638378
Job Description
Job Description
Be Part Of A High-Performing Team:
Join the equity technology organization of a leading global financial institution supporting sophisticated capital markets operations. This team operates in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment where platform stability, automation, and operational resilience are essential. The Platform Engineer will collaborate with application development, infrastructure, and technology operations teams to strengthen the platforms used to deploy and support business-critical applications.
What's In Store For You:
Engagement: W2 only (no C2C/1099)
This is a long-term hybrid contract opportunity based in New York City. The role offers exposure to enterprise-scale technology platforms, cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, and production operations within a global financial services environment.
How You Will Make An Impact:
- Design, maintain, and improve technology platforms used for application deployment and ongoing operations.
- Develop infrastructure automation that improves platform consistency, scalability, and deployment speed.
- Configure and support continuous integration and continuous delivery tools and workflows.
- Monitor platform performance, availability, capacity, and overall system health.
- Investigate infrastructure and deployment issues, identify root causes, and implement lasting solutions.
- Partner with application developers, infrastructure teams, and support functions to deliver reliable production services.
- Strengthen operational controls, documentation, and repeatable platform engineering practices.
Do you bring proven success in DevOps and platform engineering?
- 3–5 years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, systems engineering, or a closely related discipline.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and automated software deployment processes.
- Proficiency with scripting or automation languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Experience supporting cloud infrastructure and modern application deployment environments.
- Knowledge of infrastructure automation, configuration management, and monitoring practices.
- Ability to troubleshoot platform, deployment, performance, and availability issues.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across development and infrastructure teams.
- Experience supporting financial services, capital markets, or other regulated environments is preferred.