Castleton Commodities International · 10 hours ago
Senior Platform Engineer
Stamford, CT
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expCastleton Commodities International is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to join our IT Infrastructure team. The role involves designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure solutions across the global enterprise, while also supporting the development and maintenance of a firmwide investment, trading, and analytics platform.
Oil and Gas
Responsibilities
Develop and implement cloud-native infrastructure solutions to support the entire software development lifecycle
Design and operate Kubernetes infrastructure using emerging technologies such as Datadog, Argo CD, Crossplane, Helm, and Karpenter
Champion the design, implementation, and management of our cloud infrastructure using Terraform, ensuring best practices for scalability, resiliency, and security
Support migration efforts to K8s
Support architectural modernization of applications and their underlying infrastructure to be more cloud native leveraging serverless platforms, Docker, Kubernetes, etc
Build, implement, and maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to automate front office software applications and core infrastructure technology
Partner with the global IT organization to identify areas for automation (via IaC, CID/CD pipelines, etc) and implement solutions to streamline IT workflows and operational processes such as infra deployment, upgrades, patching, and migration with minimal service downtimes
Support the design and implementation of high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity plans to ensure the availability of critical IT services
Conduct product evaluations, design & development of new features/enhancements, and continuous improvements in all areas of infrastructure service operations. Respond to mission-critical service issues to triage and resolve complex problems
Partner with developers and internal stakeholders to understand requirements, engineer, optimize, support, and maintain cloud-native solutions
Troubleshoot and diagnose issues and remediate them accordingly
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree required, preferably in Computer Science, MIS, or related technical field of study
Minimum 5+ years of prior professional Platform Engineering experience
Excellent understanding of AWS services; including EKS, ECS, and related services
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes infrastructure and tooling, including Datadog, Argo CD, Crossplane, Helm, and Karpenter strongly preferred
Experience with various CI/CD methodologies, container orchestration tools, and observability and performance monitoring technologies
Good understanding of networking concepts and OSI layers
Experience designing and implementing DevSecOps practices
Advanced knowledge in assessing, deploying, configuring, testing, and operating AWS services using IaC tools
Experience working in Linux environments
Strong understanding of containers (eg: Docker) and container orchestration via Kubernetes
Demonstrated hands-on experience with Git, Python, shell scripting, and Terraform in an enterprise production environment
Thorough understanding of change management control and the software development lifecycle, from requirements analysis to testing and deployment
Proven experience in conducting Root Cause Analysis (RCA) of issues, with a demonstrated ability to analyze data, identify patterns, and propose effective solutions to prevent the recurrence of the issue
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, possessing the ability to interact effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Strong analytical skill-set with demonstrated attention to detail
Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic and high-intensity environment including open-floor plan if applicable to the position, with timely responsiveness and the ability to work beyond normal business hours when required
Preferred
Experience implementing Kubernetes security controls, including eBPF-based runtime visibility or policy enforcement
Experience supporting MLOps workloads on Kubernetes (e.g., model training, serving, pipelines, or GPU-enabled workloads)
Experience operating across multiple Kubernetes distributions (e.g., managed cloud Kubernetes and self-managed clusters)
Experience leveraging Open Source technologies incubated through CNCF
Benefits
Competitive comprehensive medical, dental, retirement and life insurance benefits
Employee assistance & wellness programs
Parental and family leave policies
CCI in the Community: Each office has a Charity Committee and as a part of this program employees are allocated 2 days annually to volunteer at the selected charities.
Charitable contribution match program
Tuition assistance & reimbursement
Quarterly Innovation & Collaboration Awards
Employee discount program, including access to fitness facilities
Competitive paid time off
Continued learning opportunities
Company
Castleton Commodities International
Castleton Commodities International is an independent global commodities merchant.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$4.18B2025-11-18Debt Financing· $2.11B
2023-11-15Debt Financing· $2.08B
Leadership Team
Lauren Haymond
Managing Director, Global Head of Talent Strateg
Recent News
2025-04-03
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