Platform Services Specialist (Fintech)

TL;DR

Senior Platform Engineering Specialist: Operating, maintaining, and optimizing Ingress/Egress platforms and supporting components with an accent on secure service onboarding patterns and architectural guidance. Focus on troubleshooting connectivity, routing, and traffic flow issues across internal and external systems and driving resolution across network/application layers.

Location: Flexible hybrid work model in Toronto, Canada.

Salary: $100,000–$120,000 USD.

Company

hirify.global is a purpose-driven organization shaping the future of digital finance in Canada through secure digital payments, advanced identity verification, and industry-leading fraud protection.

What you will do

• Operate, maintain, and optimize the Ingress/Egress platform and supporting components.
• Troubleshoot connectivity, routing, TLS/certificate, and traffic flow issues across internal and external systems.
• Own and standardize secure service onboarding patterns, providing architectural guidance to product teams.
• Perform log & trace analysis to diagnose issues and drive resolution across network/application layers.
• Support platform upgrades, configuration tuning, certificate rotations, and release deployments.
• Collaborate with security, architecture, and product teams to ensure compliance, reliability, and resiliency.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, SRE, or backend engineering roles, with demonstrated ownership of production platforms.
• 4+ years of proven ability to lead technical initiatives, influence architecture decisions, and operate confidently in mission-critical environments.
• Strong proficiency in Python and scripting for production-grade platform tooling and automation.
• Experience with container tooling (Docker CLI, Docker Compose), Git, Jenkins, and Artifactory deployment flows.
• Deep understanding of networking & traffic management, including Envoy Proxy, L4/L7 routing, load balancing, and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with security fundamentals like RSA cryptography, JSON Web Token (JWT), X.509 cert formats, and TLS validation.

Nice to have

• Comfortable making small code changes/patches for reliability and bug fixes.

Culture & Benefits

• Generous vacation and wellness days to help you recharge.
• Comprehensive employer-paid benefits coverage.
• Market-leading employer-funded RRSP program to invest in your future.
• Flexible hybrid work model for better work-life balance.
• Access to a free and confidential 24/7 employee & family assistance program.
• Pregnancy and parental leave top-up to support growing families.
• Charitable donation matching with United Way.