Engineering and Quality Senior Platform Engineer

Fitch Group is currently seeking a Senior Platform Engineer based out of our Monterey Mexico office.

As a leading global financial information services provider Fitch Group delivers vital credit and risk insights robust data and dynamic tools to champion more efficient transparent financial markets. With over 100 years of experience and colleagues in over 30 countries Fitch Groups culture of credibility independence and transparency is embedded throughout its structure which includes Fitch Ratings one of the worlds top three credit ratings agencies and Fitch Solutions a leading provider of insights data and analytics. With dual headquarters in London and New York Fitch Group is owned by Hearst.

Fitchs Technology & Data Team is a dynamic department where innovation meets impact. Our team includes the Chief Data Office Chief Software Office Chief Technology Office Emerging Technology Shared Technology Services Technology Risk and the Executive Program Management Office (EPMO).Driven by our investment in cutting-edge technologies like AI and cloud solutions were home to a diverse range of roles and backgrounds united by a shared passion for leveraging modern technology to drive projects that matter to our organization and clients. We are also proud to be recognized by Built In as a Best Place to Work in Technology 3 years in a row. Whether youre an experienced professional or just starting your career we offer an exciting and supportive environment where you can grow innovate and make a difference.

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About the Team

Join the Data Marketplace Tech team within the CSO organizationa highly visible group responsible for designing building and scaling solutions that free up data and empower business decisions across Fitch. The team collaborates closely with stakeholders across the organization to deliver next-generation data capabilities with a focus on faster time to market data engineering robust data controls innovation and leveraging AI/ML for data solutions.

How Youll Make an Impact:

• Design and evolve secure scalable and resilient cloud platform capabilities that improve reliability standardization and delivery speed for enterprise engineering and data teams.
• Build and enhance automated software delivery infrastructure provisioning and deployment practices to enable consistent repeatable and efficient releases across environments.
• Embed security code quality and artifact governance controls into engineering workflows to strengthen platform integrity and reduce delivery risk.
• Improve operational resilience through observability incident response readiness disaster recovery planning and recovery testing for critical platforms and services.
• Develop reusable platform standards self-service capabilities and engineering patterns that improve governance operational efficiency and team adoption.
• Partner with engineering security architecture and data teams to deliver platform services that support modern data ecosystems AI-enabled solutions and distributed architecture needs.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers while promoting best practices innovation and a culture of continuous improvement across platform engineering initiatives.
• Drive observability and operational excellence through proactive monitoring alerting logging and performance management practices using Datadog and related tools reducing incident risk and improving platform health.

You May be a Good Fit if:

• 5 - 8 years of experience in platform engineering cloud infrastructure DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering supporting enterprise-scale production environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS along with working knowledge of Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform across infrastructure networking identity storage compute and managed services.
• Proven experience with CI/CD continuous deployment infrastructure as code and platform automation using tools such as GitHub GitHub Actions ArgoCD Terraform Python Shell scripting Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience implementing observability and DevSecOps practices using tools such as Datadog Sonar Veracode and JFrog including monitoring code scanning vulnerability management and artifact repository controls.
• Experience supporting modern data platforms and distributed architecture patterns including an understanding of Data Mesh concepts; familiarity with Trino or similar distributed query engines is a plus.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across cloud infrastructure deployment automation runtime environments integrations and production operations
• Hands-on experience with disaster recovery backup and recovery strategies failover planning and operational support for highly available production systems.

What Would Make You Stand Out:

• Experience supporting enterprise data platforms including Data Mesh concepts federated data access patterns and technologies such as Trino Databricks or Snowflake.
• Understanding and implementation experience with modern authentication and authorization patterns including OAuth OpenID Connect token-based authentication and authorization code flows.
• Experience applying AI-enabled tools to improve engineering productivity operational automation incident management and continuous deployment effectiveness.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to work across engineering security data and business stakeholders.
• Proven ability to create reusable engineering patterns platform templates and standardized workflows that accelerate adoption and improve consistency across teams.

Why Choose Fitch:

• Work-Life Balance First:40% in-office monthlystay connected while keeping flexibility.
• A Culture of Learning & Mobility: Dedicated trainings leadership development and mentorship programs designed to ensure that your time at Fitch will be a continuous learning opportunity
• Investing in Your Future: Retirement planning and tuition reimbursement programs that empower you to achieve your short and long-term goals
• Promoting Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive healthcare offerings that enable physical mental financial social and occupational wellbeing
• Supportive Parenting Policies: Family-friendly policies including a generous global parental leave plan designed to help you balance career and family life effectively
• Inclusive Work Environment: A collaborative workplacewhere all voices are valued withEmployee Resource Groups that unite and empower our colleagues around the globe
• Dedication to Giving Back: Paid volunteer days matched funding for donations and ample opportunities to volunteer in your community

Fitch is committed to providing global securities markets with objective timely independent and forward-looking credit opinions. To protect Fitchs credibility and reputation our employees must take every precaution to avoid conflicts of interest or any appearance of a conflict of interest.Should you be successful in the recruitment process at Fitch Ratings you will be asked to declare any securities holdings and other potential conflicts prior to commencing employment. If you or your immediate family have any holdings that may conflict with your work responsibilities you may be asked to divest yourself of them before beginning work.

Fitch is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race color national origin religion sex sexual orientation gender identity disability protected veteran status and other statuses protected by law.

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