Sr. Platform Engineer - TD Bank, Toronto

About this opportunity

TD Securities offers a wide range of capital markets products and services to corporate, government, and institutional clients who choose us for our innovation, execution, and experience. We are looking for an experienced Hands-on Sr. Platform Engineer that will work on innovative and transformational initiatives at TD Securities, specifically the implementation of the next generation Trading Risk Warehouse platform.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the design and development of a scalable, resilient and high performing PnL reporting platform that will be used by Risk Analysts, Front Office Traders, and Senior Executives.

Your impact

As a lead platform engineer, you will work on a leading platform engineering team to pinpoint system bottlenecks, provide tangible solutions quickly to resolve platform issues, automate platform maintenance tasks, and demonstrate strong technical leadership to ensure the quality of deliverables in a timely manner. Your responsibilities include:

• Build and maintain a high performing platform and ensure the platform meets the need of business, providing stability, reliability, security and scalability.
• Manage underlying infrastructure, including hardware, software and storage resources.
• Manage multiple environments (Prod/Pre-Prod/Lower environments) and ensure the integration and stability of environments.
• Streamline code promotion process and providing ways to improve developer productivity.
• Ensure the stability of platform and TRW ecosystem.
• Find ways to optimize platform and address system bottlenecks.
• Ability to analyze system issues and provide a solution to resolve the issue permanently.
• Promote the best practices and follow the continuous integration and delivery.
• Drive transformation by continuously looking for ways to automate existing processes and workflows.
• Explore new capabilities and technologies to drive innovation.
• Work closely with development and production operation teams to support their needs, troubleshoot issues and enhance the platform.

Skills and experience

Candidates are expected to bring a robust technical background alongside strong communication and problem-solving skills to collaborate efficiently within a global team.

• Proficient in programming skills for automation: Unix shell scripting, python or other programming language
• Networking and Linux administration
• SQL
• DevOps CICD/ tools/GIT/Jenkins
• Monitoring and logging tools
• Hadoop Cluster/spark/hive system administration
• Manage large scale Web and ETL platform
• Cloud platform experience is a plus
• 8+ years in managing and supporting large scale and mission critical platform
• Experience in large scale platform migration initiative
• Strong experience with managing Hadoop platform including HDFS, Spark and Hive
• 8+ years' experience in Linux system administration
• Experience in managing web and service/API platform
• Experience working with messaging technologies (e.g. Kafka)
• Experience with RDBMS, demonstrable fluency in SQL and any non-relational DB such as Cassandra (is preferred)
• 6+ years of experience managing Git, CI/CD toolset (Maven), Jenkins, working within an Agile environment
• Experience in implementing and managing system monitoring tools
• Experience developing and managing highly scalable and low latency systems
• Hands-on experience with market risk and/or PnL reporting is nice to have

Perks and benefits

TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD. Our Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial, physical, and mental well-being goals.

• Base salary and a discretionary variable compensation award that considers business and individual performance
• Health and well-being benefits
• Savings and retirement programs
• Paid time off
• Banking benefits and discounts
• Career development programs
• Reward and recognition programs