Platform Engineer - Toronto

Validus Risk Management is seeking a Platform Engineer to join their growing platform team. The role involves building and maintaining frameworks, infrastructure, and tools for their technology platform, Horizon, while improving AWS infrastructure and supporting CI/CD pipelines. Responsibilities Develop and maintain cloud-native services on AWS under guidance from senior engineers Collaborate with the Quant team to help move compute-intensive simulations to scalable cloud infrastructure Contribute to the design and implementation of improvements to our job scheduling framework for quantitative workloads Help integrate and maintain third-party tools (e.g., Snyk, Datadog) that support platform operations Contribute to improving monitoring and observability across our systems Support the containerisation of services and deployment on AWS Help maintain clear documentation for platform projects and processes Participate in problem-solving design discussions and contribute ideas for potential solutions Skills Solid experience with one or more modern programming languages. We require a minimum of 1+ year of commercial experience with Python (within a Platform, Back-end or DevOps setting) though are happy to consider candidates who have the bulk of their experience in a different language Experience with AWS. We use a wide range of services, but the ones we deal with the most are Lambda, ECS, RDS, S3, API Gateway and Step Functions Experience with databases. We use MySQL, MongoDB and DynamoDB, but experience with other database technologies would also be valuable Experience with IaC tools such as CDK, Terraform or Pulumi Experience in building and optimising CI/CD pipelines Understanding of monitoring and observability tools such as DataDog or New Relic Knowledge of architecture patterns. Experience working on event-driven microservices is a plus Curiosity to explore new technologies. We are constantly looking for potential technologies to improve our platform Strong communication skills in working with other teams and mentoring more junior developers Experience with financial risk management software or platforms Exposure to Python web frameworks such as FastAPI or Django Benefits Performance bonus linked to agreed success criteria - paid semi annually 20 days’ holiday (increasing to 25 with tenure) plus bank holidays Private health insurance (including dental, optical and mental health) Travel insurance Learning & development allowance and support for professional qualifications Company Overview Validus Risk Management is a financial services firm that provides a tech-enabled service platform for financial risk management. It was founded in 2009, and is headquartered in London, England, GBR, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is