Platform Engineer - Toronto

Validus Risk Management is seeking a Platform Engineer to join their growing platform team, which focuses on building and maintaining the technology platform, Horizon. The role involves improving and supporting AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and internal developer tooling while collaborating with experienced engineers and other technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain cloud-native services on AWS under guidance from senior engineers
• Collaborate with the Quant team to help move compute-intensive simulations to scalable cloud infrastructure
• Contribute to the design and implementation of improvements to our job scheduling framework for quantitative workloads
• Help integrate and maintain third-party tools (e.g., Snyk, Datadog) that support platform operations
• Contribute to improving monitoring and observability across our systems
• Support the containerisation of services and deployment on AWS
• Help maintain clear documentation for platform projects and processes
• Participate in problem-solving design discussions and contribute ideas for potential solutions

Skills

• Solid experience with one or more modern programming languages. We require a minimum of 1+ year of commercial experience with Python (within a Platform, Back-end or DevOps setting) though are happy to consider candidates who have the bulk of their experience in a different language
• Experience with AWS. We use a wide range of services, but the ones we deal with the most are Lambda, ECS, RDS, S3, API Gateway and Step Functions
• Experience with databases. We use MySQL, MongoDB and DynamoDB, but experience with other database technologies would also be valuable
• Experience with IaC tools such as CDK, Terraform or Pulumi
• Experience in building and optimising CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding of monitoring and observability tools such as DataDog or New Relic
• Knowledge of architecture patterns. Experience working on event-driven microservices is a plus
• Curiosity to explore new technologies. We are constantly looking for potential technologies to improve our platform
• Strong communication skills in working with other teams and mentoring more junior developers
• Experience with financial risk management software or platforms
• Exposure to Python web frameworks such as FastAPI or Django

Benefits

• Generous bonus
• Company-sponsored benefit programs
• Performance bonus linked to agreed success criteria - paid semi annually
• 20 days' holiday (increasing to 25 with tenure) plus bank holidays
• Private health insurance (including dental, optical and mental health)
• Travel insurance
• Learning & development allowance and support for professional qualifications

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