Staff Platform Engineer

Equiniti provides comprehensive solutions to support organizations throughout their corporate lifecycle, including managing shareholder engagement, maintaining stock registers, facilitating ownership transfers, enabling shareholder meetings, paying dividends, supporting IPOs, and administering employee equity plans. We are dedicated to revolutionizing shareholder services by developing digital solutions that facilitate dematerialization for issuers and shareholders. 

EQ is a fintech that connects the future of capital, communications, and governance, building trust and confidence in every market we serve. Our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.

Staff Engineer – Cloud & Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)

Experience: 9–12 years
Function: Product & Engineering
Reporting to: Engineering Manager / Technical Engineering Manager
 

Role Overview

We are seeking a Staff Engineer (Cloud & Terraform) to play a senior individual contributor role in designing, building and operating secure, scalable cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). This role focuses on strong hands‑on delivery, technical ownership within squads, and influencing cloud engineering standards, while working closely with principal engineers, architects and platform teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform following established standards and best practices.
• Contribute to the development of cloud landing zones, shared services and reusable IaC modules.
• Take technical ownership of cloud and IaC components across the full lifecycle — build, deploy, operate and enhance.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and quality controls for Terraform and cloud infrastructure.
• Ensure security, compliance and operational reliability are embedded in infrastructure designs.
• Collaborate closely with application teams, platform engineers and security stakeholders.
• Participate in peer reviews, technical discussions and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Mentor engineers within the squad and act as a strong technical contributor and problem solver.

Essential Skills & Experience

• 9–12 years of engineering experience with strong hands‑on focus on cloud and infrastructure engineering.
• Proven experience using Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and module development.
• Strong experience on Azure and/or AWS, including networking, IAM, security and governance basics.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
• Solid understanding of cloud security, identity, secrets management and operational best practices.
• Ability to work independently on complex technical problems and influence within the team.

Nice to Have

• Experience in SaaS or product-led engineering environments.
• Exposure to regulated domains such as Financial Services.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, platform engineering concepts or FinOps practices.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline.