Platform Engineer II

About the role

A position is available for a Platform Engineer to join a technology team. The role is responsible for learning, supporting, and maintaining a market risk platform. This function is integral to ensuring the stability, reliability, and scalability of a core risk system used for regulatory, stress testing, and daily risk reporting. The position is suited for an engineer who works with complex systems and partners with Risk, Quant, Data, and Infrastructure teams. The successful candidate will be expected to become a subject-matter contributor who can independently diagnose issues, perform platform changes, and improve operational resilience.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.

Qualifications

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

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.

Benefits

Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.