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Platform Compute Specialist

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Job Summary:
Squarepoint is seeking a Platform Specialist to join our global Platform Compute (PLC) team. This role is ideal for experienced engineers with a strong software development background who are passionate about building scalable, resilient infrastructure systems. You will architect, develop, and optimize compute  platforms that support our high-performance, data-intensive workloads. You'll work closely with global engineering teams to design and implement infrastructure-as-code, observability pipelines, and self-healing systems. This is a hands-on engineering role with a strong emphasis on automation, performance tuning, and developer enablement.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Architect and evolve scalable compute platforms using modern infrastructure engineering practices.
  • Design and implement automation frameworks for provisioning, configuration management, and lifecycle operations.
  • Develop internal tooling and APIs to abstract infrastructure complexity and improve productivity.
  • Take part in bulk server provisioning which may include using remote hands to complete tasks.
  • Drive observability initiatives by building and integrating telemetry pipelines (metrics, logs, traces).
  • Collaborate with software engineering teams to ensure infrastructure supports application scalability, reliability, and security.
  • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices across the team.
  • Participate in on-call, incident response  and postmortems, driving long-term improvements through automation and architectural changes.


Qualifications/Skills Desired:

  • Expert-level Linux systems administration (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu)
  • Configuration management (e.g., Ansible, Chef, SaltStack)
  • Proficient in Python, Go, or Rust for infrastructure tooling
  • Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure (compute, storage, networking, IAM)
  • Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi)
  • Monitoring and alerting (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Zabbix)
  • Logging and tracing (e.g., ELK stack, Fluentd, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger
  • Identity and access management (e.g., LDAP, Kerberos, OAuth2)
  • Cloud-native services (e.g., S3, EBS, GKE, EKS, Cloud Functions)
  • Git-based workflows and version control
  • Agile methodologies and DevOps culture
  • Test-driven infrastructure development and automated testing frameworks
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

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