Core Platform Engineer

Outstanding contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Core Platform Engineer in Charlotte, NC or Iselin, NJ (Hybrid Schedule).

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

Contract Duration: 24 Months

Primary Role:
Build and maintain secure, scalable infrastructure and services.

What You Will Be Doing

• Support a highly available and scalable infrastructure containing Object storage, Openshift, Spark, Iceberg, Yunikorn, Trino
• Monitor for configuration drift and enforce infrastructure policies.
• Configure and monitor Big Data ecosystem components with various BI tools, observability tools etc
• Build automated regression and performance test suite to ensure health checks of all components of the platform
• Monitor system health and enforce runtime policies
• Implement and manage security protocols, including Oauth authentication, TLS encryption, and role-based access control (RBAC).
• Conduct regular maintenance, including cluster scaling, perform regular security audits.

Skills

Programming & Scripting

• Languages:
  Python, Bash, Shell, SQL, Java (basic), Scala (for big data, good to have)
• Automation & Scripting:
  Python scripting for automation, Linux shell scripting

Operating Systems & Container

• System programing, performance tuning, networking
• OCP, Kubernetes (K8s), Helm, Terraform, container orchestration and deployment
• Frameworks:
  Nexus One, Apache Spark, Hadoop, Hive, Trino, Iceberg
• ETL Tools:
  Apache Airflow, NiFi (good to have)
• Data Pipelines:
  Batch and streaming (Kafka, Flink)

AI/ML & MTC (Model Training & Consumption) (Nice to have)

• Frameworks or LLM modeling

Security & Access Control

• Access Models: RBAC (Role-Based Access Control), ABAC (Attribute-Based Access Control)
• Data Protection:
  Encryption at rest and in transit, TLS/SSL, KMS (Key Management Services)
• Compliance: GDPR, HIPAA (if applicable), IAM policies

System Design & Architecture (good to have, at least at a conceptual level)

• Scalability:
  Load balancing, caching (Redis, Memcached), horizontal scaling
• High Availability:
  Failover strategies, disaster recovery, monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana)