Python Developer with AWS Cloud

Platform Engineer

As a Platform Engineer, you will be an integral member of our Engineering practice and delivering the new data platform and other initiatives. This role's focus is on operational excellence through the design, build, run, and evolution of foundational tools, infrastructure, and automation, working with both bank and partner teams. This role will influence engineering practices across teams, participate in governance forums, and ensure alignment with the bank’s engineering and operational standards.

Overall, to be successful in this role, you will:

Design and evolve platforms: Develop and maintain reusable infrastructure, templates, and tooling that support application deployment, observability, and operational resilience

Automation and Infrastructure as Code: automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and monitoring, ensuring consistency and repeatability across environments

Collaboration with product teams: Partner with internal and third-party engineers to co-design and operate platforms that improve delivery velocity, quality, and safety

Operational support: Participate in on-call rotations and incident response workflows to ensure the availability of critical services

Influence over ownership: Focus on influencing and directing engineering practices across vendor teams to align with the banks and strive for automation, observability, and governance practices

Cross-functional governance: Participate in forums such as Change, Risk & Security, and Service Management to ensure alignment with the bank’s engineering and operational standards

Blended responsibilities: Overlap with SRE data and systems Engineering, particularly in areas like observability, DevOps integration, and service reliability

Continuous improvement: Perform complex problem resolution, root cause analysis, and identification of improvement opportunities

We’re interested in hearing from people who have experience in domains such as:

Proven experience in working with engineering and operational teams, especially cloud data engineering platforms

Proven experience in operational engagements required to bring a product to life (e.g., Risk, Security, Incident, Change, Problem, Monitoring, Supplier Governance, Defect Review, Scalability, Automation)

Experience with third-party integration (eg, APIs, SFT) and vendor management

Experience with Cloud/AWS fundamental service (IAM, VPC and EC2, S3)

Experience with automation such as testing, data ingestion, APIs, and file transfers

Sound experience of SRE Best Practices: Logging, Monitoring, Security

ELK Stack, or similar monitoring and logging tools

Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow

Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)

Have a problem-solving mindset with a focus on automation and continuous process improvement