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# Platform Engineer II

- **Company:** Everforth Apex
- **Location:** Cincinnati, OH, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Unix, Information Systems, Data as a Services, Information Engineering, Relational Databases, Linux, Python (Programming Language), SQL Databases, Scripting, Information Technology
- **Published:** August 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/7c1ef252-8d81-4556-81a0-4832b231ca6c

## About the Role

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.

## 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.


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