AWS Platform Engineer

Job Description – AWS Platform Engineer

Key Responsibilities

System Ownership & Reliability

• Own and manage production and non-production financial systems.
• Ensure high availability, stability, and performance of all platforms.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across infrastructure, applications, middleware, and databases.
• Conduct detailed RCA and implement permanent fixes to prevent recurrences.

Operational Excellence

• Design, maintain, and execute DR strategies and periodic DR drills.
• Oversee OS patching, upgrades, and security hardening.
• Define and manage backup, restore, and retention strategies.
• Build monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks for proactive issue detection.

SRE & Automation

• Apply SRE principles to enhance system resilience and scalability.
• Automate deployments, failover testing, scaling, and operational workflows.
• Build self-healing capabilities, runbooks, and automation tools.
• Develop automation using Python, Shell, Ansible, and Terraform.

Cloud & Hybrid Environments

• Operate systems across on-premises and AWS environments.
• Support cloud migration, modernization, patching, and automation initiatives.
• Work with AWS services including EC2, ECS/Fargate, RDS, S3, IAM, Lambda, VPC, and CloudWatch.
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams to optimize scalability, reliability, and cost.

CI/CD & Platform Engineering

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Terraform, Git, and IaC practices.
• Support platform operations for trading, risk, and capital market applications.
• Ensure smooth CI/CD for both application and infrastructure components.

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Skills

• 6–10 years in Platform Engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, Linux/Windows, and hybrid cloud.
• Expertise in Terraform, IaC, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong scripting skills: Python, Shell, Ansible.
• Proficiency in monitoring tools: CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking, IAM, security, and VPC design.

Operational Capabilities

• Experience with patching, upgrades, DR, backup/recovery, and system hardening.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across apps, middleware, infra, and integrations.
• Familiarity with ITIL processes (incident, problem, change management).

Preferred

• Exposure to financial domain systems such as Front Arena, Calypso, Murex, etc.
• Background in automation-driven operations and performance tuning.
• Experience in capital markets or financial services environments.

Soft Skills

• High ownership and accountability.
• Calm and decisive under high-pressure situations.
• Strong communication and cross-team collaboration.
• Passionate about automation, reliability, and continuous improvement.

Why Join Us?

• Opportunity to own platforms end-to-end and apply SRE principles to critical financial systems.
• Excellent compensation and benefits.
• Be part of a fast-growing FinTech startup environment.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Provident Fund

Work Location: In person