Platform Engineer

Level/Function: Specialist, Technology Infrastructure
Title: Platform Engineer

About BetaNXT

BetaNXT powers the future of connected wealth management infrastructure solutions, leveraging real-time data capabilities to enhance the wealth advisor experience. Combining industry expertise with the power of our proven Beta, Maxit, and Mediant businesses, we are focused on solving our customers' most demanding integration challenges with flexible, efficient, connected solutions that anticipate their changing needs. Our comprehensive approach reduces enterprise cost, streamlines operations processes, increases advisor productivity, and enhances the investor experience. Together with BetaNXT, wealth management firms are transforming their platforms into differentiating assets that enable enterprise scale and stimulate commercial growth. For more information visit www.betanxt.com.

Mediant, a BetaNXT company, provides investor communications technology and technology-enabled solutions to banks, brokers, corporations, funds and investment managers. Mediant's innovative technology ensures regulatory compliance and creates opportunities to strengthen shareholder and client engagement.

Overview of the Platform Engineer

The Platform Engineer will be responsible for building and maintaining our cloud infrastructure, including the tools used for deployment, operation, monitoring/alerting, and troubleshooting of infrastructure and related services. The role is heavily focused on AWS and as such we expect a strong working knowledge of common AWS services, infrastructure components, and networking concepts. The Platform Engineer will be a member of a small team and while the focus will be Platform Engineering / SRE tasks, they will be asked to participate in other operational & project-based work and will be required to assist with a wide variety of technologies as needed.

This position is a hybrid position based out of our Cary, NC office and requires being in the office at least 3 days per week. Participation in the on-call rotation is required, and evening/weekend work may be required occasionally.

Duties and Responsibilities of the Platform Engineer

• Leverage native AWS services and custom tooling to design scalable, resilient, infrastructure.
• Build & deploy infrastructure as code using Terraform and Python.
• Manage CI/CD using GitLab.
• Modernize existing cloud infrastructure by utilizing containers and serverless technology.
• Assist with problem investigation and resolution, with a focus on root cause.
• Design highly available infrastructure with a focus on proactive monitoring and preventative maintenance.
• Participate in on-call rotation for critical infrastructure.

• At least one programming/scripting language, such as Python, as well as source control using Git.
• 3+ years working experience with AWS cloud technologies.
• Fundamental understanding of networking technologies and protocols.
• Problem-solving abilities, including experience with log parsing and debug tools.
• Experience building/maintaining highly available, scalable, systems.
• Firm grasp of security basics, including Security Groups, encryption, authentication & authorization.
• Ability to create detailed, accurate, and maintainable documentation and diagrams.