Validus is looking for a Platform Engineer to join our growing platform team. The team builds and maintains the frameworks, infrastructure, and tools that power our technology platform, Horizon. 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. Our teams work together to grow our technology platform, Horizon. 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.

Key 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.