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Senior Platform Engineer

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Toronto, ON
Senior level
Toronto, ON
Senior level
The Senior Platform Engineer at OANDA is responsible for providing infrastructure for reliable application delivery, managing on-premise and multi-cloud environments, and ensuring security compliance. This role involves leading design discussions, collaborating with technical and non-technical teams, and continuous monitoring and improvement of system performance. The position requires expertise in networking, storage, compute, and troubleshooting within both cloud and on-premise environments.
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Everyone at OANDA is focused on our vision to transform how our customers can meet all their currency needs. We are revolutionising the world of currency trading by providing innovative trading experiences, currency data and analytics solutions. Dare to be open, bold, focused - own it and apply! The future is now! 

Join us and:

  • Work on an award-winning platform that processes billions of dollars every day.

  • Be on a team that’s responsible for company-wide top priority projects.

  • Contribute innovative ideas to improve the daily trading experience of thousands of customers.

  • Improve yourself and your team through education and continuous learning.

How do we work?

As a member of the Platform Engineering team at OANDA, you are responsible for providing the infrastructure to efficiently and reliably serve our applications to OANDA customers. You will work with other technical and non-technical teams within OANDA and manage the underlying hardware and operating systems to deliver a high-availability, fault-tolerant global platform spanning on-premise and multi-cloud environments. In addition, you will provide a platform for application delivery based on modern orchestration and automation tools to enable the product development teams to quickly and safely deploy, while ensuring continued adherence to OANDA’s security and engineering standards.

In this role, you will:

  • Work on premise or cloud technologies, and wide range of infrastructure and systems (Infrastructure as Code minded)

  • Identify points of concerns with related processes or projects and design accordingly, pick up on external team dependencies and identify where own work will impact external teams and work with those teams to ensure proper design outcome

  • Lead design discussions

  • Take part in both of the teams rotations, on call and triage

  • Present kickoffs/plans/updates to the team

  • Identify and improve security principles based on organizations requirements.

  • Monitor all aspects of the environments under management, including but not limited to golden signals, associated costs/spend and overall performance

  • Manage incoming on demand work vs planned work and properly estimate tasks

  • Collaborate with stakeholders

  • Create clear, concise documentation and designs

  • Review scripts/IaC for correctness and best practice

What skillset you need, to be successful in this role?

  • General Education: University Degree or equivalent working experience

  • General Experience: 6+ years experience in related field

  • Having a high level expertise in all facets of either cloud infrastructure or an on premise environment, and well versed in both. This includes, but not limited to: Networking, Storage and Compute, both OS (Windows, Linux) and hardware levels

  • Cloud experience (GCP preferred)

  • Experienced with a solid troubleshooting ability and methodology. Mastery of infrastructure services such as AD, LDAP, DNS, NTP, logging, monitoring is also expected

  • Ability to contribute to overall infrastructure architecture and service design and implementation

  • Certifications: Linux, Windows, Cloud Infrastructure related certification(s)

  • Ability to lift up to 50lbs for data center rack and stack

OANDA Global Corporation is a diverse and global team with offices around the world. We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to OANDA. We are committed to creating and sustaining a collegial work environment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect and one which reflects the diversity of the community in which we operate. We provide an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Candidates selected for an interview will be contacted directly. If you require accommodation during the recruitment and selection process, please let us know. We will work with you to provide as seamless a recruitment experience as possible.

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