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-premises 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

Soft Skills

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