Linux/Unix Platform Engineer

Cincinnati, OH


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Type: Contract

Category: Engineer

Industry: Financial Services

Standard Hours: Open

Reference ID: JN -082026-108404

Date Posted: 08/26/2026

Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/wpWdni


Description:

On-site in Cincinnati, OH

 

Our client is seeking a Platform Engineer to support, maintain, and enhance the Adaptiv market risk platform. The role focuses on stability, reliability, and scalability for regulatory, stress testing, and daily risk reporting. The engineer will collaborate with Risk, Quant, Data, and Infrastructure teams, grow into a subject-matter contributor, diagnose issues, execute platform changes, and strengthen operational resilience.

 

We can facilitate w2 and corp-to-corp consultants. 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: $45.00 to $55.00/hr. w2


Responsibilities:
  • Learn the Adaptiv market risk platform architecture, configurations, batch processes, calculations, and integrations.
  • Provide production support for Adaptiv processing, including monitoring batch runs and system health, diagnosing and resolving job failures or data issues, and supporting month-end, stress, and regulatory processing.
  • Participate in an on-call or operational support rotation as required.
  • Maintain and configure Adaptiv components to meet evolving business and regulatory needs.
  • Perform environment maintenance, including upgrades, patching, configuration changes, and platform tuning.
  • Implement improvements to stability, reliability, observability, monitoring, error handling, and recoverability.
  • Reduce manual intervention through automation and operational tooling.
  • Serve as a technical responder for Adaptiv-related incidents and partner with vendors and internal teams to resolve complex issues.
  • Conduct root-cause analysis, implement preventative fixes, and 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 how Adaptiv outputs are consumed downstream.
  • Translate business and risk requirements into technical platform changes.
  • Create and maintain technical documentation for workflows, configurations, 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, scripting languages such as Python or Shell, and relational databases using SQL.
  • Comfort operating in a controlled, regulated production environment.
  • Preferred: Experience with Adaptiv or market risk platforms, financial services or risk technology background, familiarity with scheduling tools, cloud platforms and data services, and monitoring or observability tooling. Exposure to market risk concepts.

Education Requirements:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.

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 (noreply@eliassen.com, 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.
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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.
 
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