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Director - Platform Engineering

Michael Page International

  • New York, New York
  • Today
  • $200,000–$235,000 Per Year
  • Full-time

Highlights

The firm is investing heavily in modern engineering practices and cloud-native technologies to support the continued growth of its electronic trading capabilities and deliver highly resilient platforms to clients worldwide. As Director of Platform Engineering, you will lead the teams responsible for platform engineering, site reliability, DevOps, and production support across critical fixed income trading systems.
Michael Page International

Numbers & Facts

LocationNew York, New York
Job TypeFull-time
IndustryStaffing/Employment Agencies
Salary$200,000–$235,000 Per Year
Company Size10,000 employees or more
Websitehttps://www.michaelpage.ca/

Description

Join A Growing Engineering Leadership Team In NYC

Our client is a leading global financial institution with a strong presence across capital markets, investment banking, and financial services. The firm is investing heavily in modern engineering practices and cloud-native technologies to support the continued growth of its electronic trading capabilities and deliver highly resilient platforms to clients worldwide.

Job Description

As Director of Platform Engineering, you will lead the teams responsible for platform engineering, site reliability, DevOps, and production support across critical fixed income trading systems. Key responsibilities include:

  • Define and execute the strategic vision for platform engineering and production support functions.
  • Lead Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, and Production Support teams supporting front-office trading applications.
  • Drive platform modernization initiatives across Kubernetes, cloud-native infrastructure, and containerized environments.
  • Develop and implement reliability, observability, monitoring, and incident management frameworks.
  • Own platform stability, resilience, operational readiness, and service availability across production environments.
  • Lead cloud transformation initiatives across both AWS and Azure.
  • Establish DevOps best practices, CI/CD standards, automation frameworks, and Infrastructure as Code.
  • Partner closely with trading, application development, architecture, and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable and highly available solutions.
  • Oversee major incident management, root cause analysis, problem management, and continuous improvement programs.
  • Drive operational excellence through KPI measurement, SLA management, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
  • Build, mentor, and develop high-performing engineering and production support teams.

MPI does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. MPI encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.

The Successful Applicant

Extensive leadership experience within Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure Engineering, or Production Support organizations. Strong understanding of fixed income, electronic trading, capital markets, or front-office trading systems. Proven experience managing mission-critical production environments with high availability requirements. Deep expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration technologies. Strong experience with AWS and Azure cloud platforms. Demonstrated success implementing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices. Expertise in production support, incident management, operational governance, and service management practices. Experience building CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, automation frameworks, and cloud-native architectures. Strong understanding of monitoring, observability, logging, and performance engineering. Exceptional stakeholder management and leadership capabilities. Location: Midtown Manhattan, NY. Working Pattern: Hybrid, 3 days per week in the office.

What's On Offer

Permanent position Base salary of $200,000 - $235,000 Opportunity to lead a large-scale Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps, and Production Support organization. High-profile role supporting business-critical fixed income electronic trading platforms. Exposure to enterprise cloud transformation initiatives across AWS and Azure. Strong career progression opportunities within a global financial institution. Comprehensive benefits package including health, retirement, and wellness programs.

About Company

Michael Page is one of the world's leading professional recruitment consultancies, specializing in the placement of candidates in permanent, contract, temporary and interim positions with clients around the world. Our business was established in Canada in 2005 when we opened our Toronto office. Our role is to work with employers and job seekers to facilitate a successful match. This can range from advising a global company on a candidate sourcing strategy to helping a job seeker find their dream job. In Canada, we focus on recruiting for the following areas: Banking and financial services Digital and e-commerce Engineering and manufacturing Finance and accounting Human resources Information technology Marketing Oil and gas Procurement and supply chain Property and construction Sales An Established Brand The Group has established a leading presence in many of the key markets for professional recruitment around the world and has positioned itself in certain other markets, which offer the opportunity for future growth. Within its current largest markets, Michael Page has also built a regional presence, including in the UK, France and Australia. Consequently, the Michael Page brand is among the most widely recognized brands in the professional recruitment industry. A Market Leader The role of a recruitment consultancy is to act as an intermediary, identifying and sourcing suitably qualified candidates on behalf of its clients. Candidates are recruited either for permanent or contract positions (typically for a fixed term) or on a temporary basis. Within the overall recruitment industry, the market for professional recruitment services is a specialist sector which has developed more recently. Michael Page is widely recognized as leading the development of this market around the world. Learn the benefits of working with Michael Page yourself. Submit your resume or contact a Michael Page recruitment consultant today.

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