Validus is looking for a Platform Engineer to join our growing platform team. You'll help improve and support our AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and internal developer tooling, working closely with experienced engineers and other technical teams. The platform team is part of the broader technology team working in collaboration with quants, frontend and backend engineers.
Horizon comprises multiple applications for trade execution, portfolio management and risk analysis for alternative asset managers in various domains, such as private equity, private debt and real estate. 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., Contribute to improving monitoring and observability across our systems Support the containerisation of services and deployment on AWS Help maintain transparent documentation for platform projects and processes Solid experience with one or more up-to-date 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.
Experience with databases. We use MySQL, MongoDB and DynamoDB, but experience with other database technologies would also be valuable Experience in building and optimising CI/CD pipelines Understanding of monitoring and observability tools such as DataDog or New Relic Experience with financial risk management software or platforms Exposure to Python web frameworks such as FastAPI or Django Validus assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. However, base salary if hired will be determined on an individualised basis, including as to experience and market location, and is only part of the Validus total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include, generous bonus, and Company-sponsored benefit programs 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 No AI is used to screen, assess or select applicants #