Platform Engineer II - AWS, Kubernetes & Golang
About the role
This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship, now or in the future. Candidates must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder. This position is hybrid 3 days per week in the following offices: Cincinnati, OH, Atlanta, GA, Jacksonville, FL or Denver, CO. This position is not eligible for remote work.
Responsibilities
- Multi-region OpenShift platform operations — Manage at scale 25+ OpenShift clusters across 6 AWS regions, ensuring reliability, security, and performance for payment services
- Infrastructure as Code & GitOps — Design and maintain declarative infrastructure using Kubernetes manifests
- Kubernetes Operators & automation — Build or integrate operators that simplify infrastructure management, reduce toil, and enable consumer teams to self-serve without platform team bottlenecks
- Observability & platform health — Own monitoring, alerting, and logging across the platform
- Container Security & compliance — Implement and maintain security controls to support payment services and regulatory requirements
- Incident response & troubleshooting — Debug platform issues across our fleet
Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, computer science or other related discipline plus 5+ years of experience or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience
- Solid experience and comfortable managing with container orchestration technologies in production (eg: RedHat OpenShift, Kubernetes)
- Strong experience with containers and immutable infrastructure
- Strong experience of working in Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Knowledge of or demonstrable experience in programming languages (such as Python, Golang)
- Experience with GitOps deployment tools such as argoCD or Flux
- Experience in continuous integration and delivery tooling (eg: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform)
Qualifications
- Experience of working in a global online business, ideally providing financial trades or transfers; of particular interest are payment companies, merchant providers, financial trading platforms and online gaming experience
- Knowledge of security aspects of financial trading/monetary transfer systems; including but not limited to PCI Compliance, DDoS prevention, IDS, Container Security and regulatory audit requirements
- Experience with running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes (architecture, components, producers, consumers, deployment, configuration, optimization, ZooKeeper, brokers etc)
- Experience with running Persistence services on Kubernetes (redis etc)
- Good knowledge of standard internet protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, HTTP and relevant troubleshooting tools and knowledge of Linux based operating systems
Skills
- Experience with container orchestration technologies in production (eg: RedHat OpenShift, Kubernetes)
- Strong experience with containers and immutable infrastructure
- Strong experience of working in Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Knowledge of programming languages (such as Python, Golang)
- Experience with GitOps deployment tools such as argoCD or Flux
- Experience in continuous integration and delivery tooling (eg: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform)
- Experience with Apache Kafka on Kubernetes (architecture, components, producers, consumers, deployment, configuration, optimization, ZooKeeper, brokers etc)
- Experience with running Persistence services on Kubernetes (redis etc)
- Good knowledge of standard internet protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, HTTP and relevant troubleshooting tools and knowledge of Linux based operating systems
Benefits
The actual starting salary will be determined by a candidate's experience, job-related skills, and relevant education or training. Please note that changes in work location may impact the final offered salary.
Pay
The good faith estimated annual salary range upon hire is $91,900.00-$138,700.00. This range reflects what we reasonably expect to offer based on the role's responsibilities, level, and geographic location.
Schedule
This position is hybrid 3 days per week in the following offices: Cincinnati, OH, Atlanta, GA, Jacksonville, FL or Denver, CO. This position is not eligible for remote work.