Hybrid Lead Platform Engineer

at TD

• Job title: Lead Platform Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: CA$126,800 - CA$164,100 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cassandra, Hadoop, HDFS, Jenkins, Kafka, Linux, Maven, RDBMS, Spark, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Toronto, Canada

About the role

• Lead Platform Engineer at TD Securities, developing a high performing Trading Risk Warehouse platform. Responsible for ensuring stability and scalability, while managing underlying infrastructure and supporting development teams.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• A passion for bringing best products to the customer, simplifying and automating work, for making things better, for being efficient and helping others.

Benefits

• health and well-being benefits
• savings and retirement programs
• paid time off
• banking benefits and discounts
• career development
• reward and recognition programs