Senior Platform Engineer
Core
Design, implement, and operate scalable, secure, and resilient AWS-based infrastructure and shared platform services to power engineering organizations and support client growth in payments.
Role type
Senior Platform Engineer (Infrastructure & Reliability)
Builds
AWS cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters (EKS), shared platform services (databases, messaging, observability), and self-service developer tools.
Domain
Financial Technology (Payments) / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
AWS production infrastructure, Kubernetes (EKS), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), distributed systems operations, CI/CD pipelines, messaging services (Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ), relational and NoSQL databases, observability and monitoring.
Preferred skills
Platform engineering models, internal developer platforms, SRE practices, cloud cost optimization, security compliance frameworks.
Technologies
AWS, Amazon EKS, Terraform, Confluent Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog
Responsibilities
Design and operate scalable AWS infrastructure; manage and evolve Kubernetes clusters; automate infrastructure provisioning; operate shared platform services; lead improvements in observability and incident response; define and track SLIs/SLOs; build self-service capabilities for developers.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities