What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Platform Engineer position at Nationstaff?
Company Description
Over the last twenty years, our company has completely revolutionized the fixed-income market by creating a single platform using proprietary technology that connects the world's most influential financial institutions. Today, more than 1,800 institutional investors and broker-dealer firms rely on us to bring them accurate market data to assist with their trading decisions, connectivity solutions that facilitate straight-through processing and technology services to optimize trading environments.
This Senior Platform Engineer will play a hands-on role in assisting in the architecture and production runtime of applications within the organization. This individual will be responsible for all the aspects of the application platform and security. S / he will work closely influencing Business Sponsors, Scrum Masters and Peer Architects while driving the company's digital modernization efforts.
Our company is seeking an individual who is looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity to help change and influence the future of the company applications and products. As a member of the platform team, you will help architect and execute on the modernization roadmap. The Senior Platform Engineer will work with architecture and application teams to help cultivate innovation, drive standardization, and deliver on new technology patterns across the stack. You will provide key leadership in adoption of platforms and consolidation across department initiatives.
Job Description
What You'll Do
- Design, implement, and operate internal multi-tenant platforms :
- Container orchestration runtimes (e.g. Kubernetes)
- Event streaming (e.g. Kafka)
- Persistent storage (e.g. Redis)
- Play a key role in architecting the future Kubernetes platform and application adoption roadmap
- Provide leadership in containerization of applications and best practice container usage
- Providing leadership in Proof of Concepts (POCs) for assessment of technical and business benefits.
- Growing our agile development culture through use of excellent engineering skills and a deep knowledge of DevOps methodologies.
- Ability to drive platform architecture design and ownership and articulate architecture solution options to product owners and architecture leadership.
- Evaluate and recommend technology and frameworks for flexibility, long-term viability, and time to market.
- Demonstrate ability to analyze business direction and problems, understand long term vision and risk in developing strategic technical solutions. Work closely with Product / Application teams in technology evaluation, selection, recommendation and configuration.
- Collaborating with peer architects seeing opportunities to refactor business processes, improve customer experience or perform capability rationalization.
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