Adaptiv Market Risk Platform Engineer (Linux/Unix)
Cincinnati, OH
Type: Contract
Category: Engineer
Industry: Financial Services
Reference ID: JN -032026-106095
Date Posted: 03/23/2026
Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/XBM1Ag
Description
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Description:
Onsite in Cincinnati, OH
Our client seeks a Platform Engineer to support and maintain a market risk platform used for regulatory, stress testing, and daily risk reporting. The role focuses on production support for batch-oriented, compute-intensive processing, platform configuration and maintenance, and incident management. The engineer will collaborate with risk, quantitative, data, and infrastructure teams to improve stability, reliability, and observability while building domain expertise over time.
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: $64.00 to $74.00/hr. w2
Responsibilities:
Learn the market risk platform architecture, configurations, batch processes, calculations, and integrations.
Provide production support by monitoring batch runs and system health, diagnosing and resolving job or data failures, and supporting month-end, stress, and regulatory processing.
Participate in an on-call or operational support rotation as required.
Maintain and configure platform components to meet evolving business and regulatory needs.
Perform environment maintenance including upgrades, patching, configuration changes, and tuning.
Implement improvements to stability, reliability, observability, monitoring, error handling, and recoverability.
Automate manual operational tasks and enhance tooling to reduce intervention.
Serve as a technical responder for incidents, partner with vendors and internal teams to resolve complex issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement preventative fixes.
Contribute to post-incident reviews and continuous-improvement plans.
Collaborate with market risk, credit risk, quantitative, analytics, data engineering, and platform teams.
Build working knowledge of market risk concepts such as VaR, sensitivities, and stress testing, and understand downstream consumption of outputs.
Translate business and risk requirements into technical platform changes.
Create and maintain documentation for workflows, configurations, common failure modes, resolutions, and operational runbooks.
Contribute to shared ownership and reduce single-point-of-failure knowledge through documentation.
Experience Requirements:
3+ years in platform engineering, production support, or systems engineering.
Experience supporting batch-oriented, compute-intensive platforms in production.
Strong troubleshooting skills for complex system and data issues.
Working knowledge of Linux/Unix environments.
Working knowledge of scripting languages such as Python or Shell.
Working knowledge of relational databases and SQL.
Comfort operating in a controlled, regulated production environment.
Platform support (preferred).
Experience with Adaptiv, market risk platforms, or analytics systems (preferred).
Education Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
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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.
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About Eliassen Group:
Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company for human-powered solutions. For over 30 years, Eliassen has helped thousands of companies reach further and achieve more with their technology solutions, financial, risk & compliance, and advisory solutions, and clinical solutions. With offices from coast to coast and throughout Europe, Eliassen provides a local community presence, balanced with international reach. Eliassen Group strives to positively impact the lives of their employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which they operate.
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