Senior Software Engineer – Kubernetes Platform Engineering, Service Mesh & Developer Platforms (Golang APIs)

Position Summary

The Senior Software Engineer – Kubernetes Platform Engineering, Service Mesh & Developer Platforms(Golang APIs) serves as a senior technical leader responsible for defining, designing, and delivering the next generation of cloud-native platform capabilities across the bank's enterprise container ecosystem.

This role provides technical leadership for platform APIs, Kubernetes automation, service mesh enablement, CI/CD modernization, and developer self-service capabilities that support large-scale application onboarding and lifecycle management.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure that the design and engineering approach for complex features are consistent with the larger portfolio solution.
• Conduct research, design prototyping and other exploration activities such as evaluating new toolsets and components for release management, CI/CD, features, etc.
• Help define the technology tool stack for the solution.
• Evaluate and adapt new testing tool/framework/practices for team(s).
• Kubernetes and OpenShift platform engineering
• Golang API and microservices development
• Service Mesh (Consul, Istio, Linkerd) enablement and automation
• CI/CD and GitOps platforms (Tekton, ArgoCD)
• Platform onboarding and self-service automation
• Observability, reliability, and platform resiliency
• Enterprise-scale cloud-native architecture and automation.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, cloud-native development, or distributed systems engineering.
• Strong proficiency in Golang (Go) with hands-on experience building APIs, microservices, controllers, operators, and automation solutions.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (K8s) and/or Red Hat OpenShift (OCP) in enterprise production environments.
• Experience designing, deploying, and supporting cloud-native applications and platform services.
• Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Tekton, Argo CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or similar platforms.
• Experience implementing and supporting GitOps-based deployment models.
• Hands-on experience with Service Mesh technologies such as Istio, Consul, Linkerd, or equivalent service networking solutions.
• Strong understanding of:
• Microservices architecture
• Distributed systems design
• Container technologies (Docker/OCI)
• API-first development principles
• Cloud-native application patterns
• Experience integrating enterprise services including:
• Identity & Access Management (IAM)
• Sercrets Management (Vault or equivalent)
• Service Discovery
• Security and Compliance controls
• Platform onboarding workflows
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and troubleshooting tools such as:
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Dynatrace
• OpenTelemetry
• Elasticsearch/Splunk
• Jaeger or distributed tracing platforms
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, performance tuning, and root-cause analysis skills.
• Experience working collaboratively with Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps, Infrastructure, Security, and Application Development teams.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into practical solutions.
• Demonstrated ownership, accountability, and ability to deliver solutions in large-scale enterprise environments.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes platforms such as OpenShift, EKS, AKS, Rancher, GKE, or Tanzu.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm).
• Familiarity with enterprise networking and security concepts including:
• Ingress/Egress
• API Gateways
• TLS/mTLS
• Zero Trust architectures
• Experience supporting hybrid cloud and multi-cluster environments.
• Exposure to financial services or other highly regulated industries.
• Experience building self-service platform capabilities and developer enablement solutions.
• Experience driving automation initiatives that improve developer productivity, operational efficiency, and platform reliability.
• Experience with Kubernetes certifications such as CKA, CKAD, or CKS.

Characteristics of the Top Performer

• Strong ownership mindset and accountability.
• Passion for automation and platform engineering.
• Able to lead technical initiatives from concept to production.
• Excellent collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
• Continuous learner with a focus on innovation and simplification.
• Able to operate effectively across Kubernetes, Service Mesh, Cloud, Automation, and Platform Engineering domains.