Platform Engineer II

Everforth Apex
Cincinnati, OH, United States
9 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
3 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Systems Engineering Unix Information Systems Data as a Services Information Engineering Relational Databases Linux Python (Programming Language) SQL Databases Scripting Information Technology

Job description

  • Learn the market risk platform, including its architecture, configurations, batch processes, calculations, and integrations.
  • Provide production support for processing, including monitoring batch runs, system health, diagnosing and resolving job failures or data issues, and supporting month-end, stress, and regulatory processing.
  • Participate in an on-call or operational support rotation as required.
  • Maintain and configure platform components to support business and regulatory needs.
  • Perform environment maintenance, including upgrades, patching, configuration changes, and platform tuning.
  • Implement improvements to stability, reliability, observability, monitoring, error handling, and recoverability.
  • Reduce manual intervention through automation and operational tooling.
  • Serve as a technical responder for platform-related incidents and partner with stakeholders to resolve issues.
  • Perform root-cause analysis and implement preventative fixes.
  • Work with Market Risk, Credit Risk, quantitative, analytics, data engineering, and platform teams.
  • Build knowledge of market risk concepts and how platform outputs are consumed downstream.
  • Create and maintain technical documentation, including workflows, configurations, failure resolutions, and operational runbooks.

Requirements

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.

Experience: 3+ years of experience in a platform engineering, production support, or systems engineering role. Experience supporting batch-oriented, compute-intensive platforms in production.

Technical Skills: Strong troubleshooting skills with the ability to diagnose complex system and data issues. Working knowledge of Linux/Unix environments, scripting languages (e.g., Python, Shell), and relational databases (e.g., SQL). Comfort working in a controlled, regulated production environment.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Prior experience with market risk platforms or risk analytics systems.
  • Background in financial services, capital markets, or risk technology.
  • Familiarity with scheduling tools, cloud platforms, data services, and monitoring tooling.
  • Exposure to market risk concepts.

About the company

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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