Platform Engineer IV

Platform Engineer IV

Anywhere

Type: Contract

Category: Development

Industry: Financial Services

Workplace Type: Remote

Reference ID: JN -042026-106538

Date Posted: 04/22/2026

Shortcut:

• Description

• Recommended Jobs

Description:

Remote

Our client seeks a Platform Engineer IV to build and maintain scalable Java and Angular services with Spring Boot for a high-availability platform. The role focuses on platform uptime, performance, stability, and public API development while collaborating across data science, operations, and database teams. Experience with big data tooling, cloud infrastructure, and automation will support reliable deployments and observability at scale.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $85.00 to $90.00/hr. w2

JN -042026-106538

?#LI-JS1

Responsibilities:

• Maintain platform uptime, performance, stability, and scalability.

• Design, guide, and challenge system architecture and design while mentoring peers.

• Develop and maintain a public API.

• Deliver robust and extensible solutions from feature requests.

• Work with big data technologies such as Kafka, Hadoop, and Spark.

• Collaborate with Data Scientists to deliver value-added features.

• Partner with DBAs to create ETL and Data Warehouse systems.

• Collaborate with Operations to automate solutions and increase service reliability.

• Monitor all production systems related to the platform.

• Build tools and processes for analytics, monitoring, machine learning, and data warehousing platforms.

• Define and implement strategies from networking and backups to fog computing configuration and deployments.

• Provision, configure, maintain, back up, and monitor onsite and cloud server resources.

• Define and implement deployment strategies for client-facing and internal systems.

• Continuously improve alerting and monitoring systems.

Experience Requirements:

• 5 to 20 years of software and systems development experience.

• Strong software development background with experience building software systems.

• Java with Spring Boot for backend services.

• Angular for front-end development.

• Working knowledge of at least one among PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Elixir, or Go.

• Strong Linux administration experience.

• Strong experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Digital Ocean, or Google Cloud.

• Strong understanding of IT security best practices.

• Experience with automation and configuration tools such as Puppet or Ansible.

• Experience with container orchestration such as Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.

• Understanding of computer networks.

• Experience operating and administering systems at production scale.

• AWS (preferred).

• Kafka (preferred).

• Python (preferred).

Recruitment Transparency Notice

Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening and hiring process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team ( [email protected] , 781-808-2924) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group's use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.

If anyone reaches out to you about an open position connected with Eliassen Group, please ensure that you are working directly with us by confirming the following:

· When you work with Eliassen Group, all email communication will come from an Eliassen.com address, never Gmail, Yahoo, etc.

· Eliassen Group will never ask you for personal information (home address, bank account, or check routing number) until you have worked with someone clearly associated with Eliassen Group.

If you have any indication of fraudulent activity, please contact [email protected] _.

About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients' capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.

Eliassen is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and all employment decisions are based on merit, performance, and business needs. Eliassen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender identity or expression, sexual preference or orientation, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), marital status, creed, religion, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, age, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, prohibited criminal record inquiries of applicants and employees, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Don't miss out on our referral program! If we hire a candidate that you refer us to then you can be eligible for a $1,000 referral check!_