What are the responsibilities and job description for the Platform Engineer position at Huxley?
$240,000 cash comp | AWS | Platform Engineer | DevOps | SRE | Boston, MA | Financial Services
Role: Platform Engineer (AWS)
Location: Boston, MA (3 days onsite)
Package: $165,000 - $185,000 20% Bonus 10% Profit share ($240k cash comp)
Benefits: Full, lucrative benefits package offered with role
A Boston-based global investment management firm with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific manages over $100B in assets for institutional investors worldwide.
Position Overview
The Platform Engineer will join a cross-functional team responsible for building and maintaining cloud services that support application development and investment infrastructure. The role focuses on reusable application templates, delivery patterns, and operational support for systems running on AWS and Kubernetes. The team enables product teams to deliver faster through automation, tooling, and sound architecture.
This role follows a hybrid work model (3 days per week onsite in Boston).
What You’ll Do
- Build cloud services and tooling using AWS (EKS, ECS, EC2, Lambda, ParallelCluster)
- Partner with development teams and cloud vendors to guide application operations
- Drive automation across the software delivery lifecycle
- Review and approve code changes
- Modernize the technology stack and improve system reliability and observability
- Troubleshoot production issues and participate in an on-call rotation
- Mentor junior engineers
What We’re Looking For
- 5 years of experience in software or platform engineering
- Strong experience building scalable services in AWS
- Hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes and Linux
- Experience with Terraform, Helm, and Kustomize (CDK a plus)
- Familiarity with observability tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)
- Experience migrating legacy workloads to AWS
- Proficiency in scripting and one or more languages such as Python, Go, TypeScript, or C#
- Solid understanding of networking, storage, and system troubleshooting
s.obrien@huxley.com | (857) 317-5044 | LinkedIn DMs
Salary : $165,000 - $185,000