Platform Engineer II - AWS, Kubernetes & Golang

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship, now or in the future. Candidates must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder. This role is hybrid, requiring 3 days per week in one of the following offices: Cincinnati, OH; Atlanta, GA; Jacksonville, FL; or Denver, CO.

About the role

Join our global payments team as a Platform Engineer II on the GKOP Platform (Atlas team) and help unleash the potential of every business through scalable, reliable infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Multi-region OpenShift platform operations — manage 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 to simplify infrastructure management, reduce toil, and enable self-service for consumer teams.
• 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 the fleet.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, computer science, or a related discipline plus 5+ years of experience (or equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience).
• Solid experience managing container orchestration technologies in production (e.g., RedHat OpenShift, Kubernetes).
• Strong experience with containers and immutable infrastructure.
• Strong experience working in Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Knowledge of or demonstrable experience in programming languages (e.g., Python, Golang).
• Experience with GitOps deployment tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.
• Experience with continuous integration and delivery tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform).

Nice-to-have skills

• Experience in global online businesses, particularly in payments, financial trades, merchant services, or online gaming.
• Knowledge of security aspects of financial systems, including PCI compliance, DDoS prevention, IDS, container security, and regulatory audit requirements.
• Experience running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes (architecture, components, producers, consumers, deployment, configuration, optimization, ZooKeeper, brokers).
• Experience running persistence services on Kubernetes (e.g., Redis).
• Good knowledge of standard internet protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, HTTP) and relevant troubleshooting tools, as well as Linux-based operating systems.

About the team

Our inclusive and global teams collaborate daily to build, release, and operate technology products and services that support an elastically scalable, fault-tolerant Kubernetes platform with OpenShift at scale. We’re also exploring emerging technologies like service mesh and serverless while working on persistence topics such as Kafka.

As a Globalpayer, you’ll think like a client, act like an owner, and win as one team. We empower each other to make decisions, drive innovation, and deliver excellence in everything we do.

Pay

The good-faith estimated annual salary range for this full-time position is $91,900–$138,700. The actual starting salary will be based on experience, skills, relevant education or training, and geographic location. Changes in work location may impact the final offered salary.