Platform Engineer II - AWS, Kubernetes & Golang

Worldpay

$91K — $138K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, computer science, or related field with 5+ years of experience or equivalent education and work experience.
  • Proven expertise in managing container orchestration technologies such as RedHat OpenShift and Kubernetes in production.
  • Strong experience with containers and the concept of immutable infrastructure.
  • Skilled in working with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
  • Familiarity with programming languages like Python or Golang.
  • Experience with GitOps deployment tools like argoCD or Flux.
  • Proficient in continuous integration and delivery tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform).

Responsibilities

  • Manage 25+ OpenShift clusters across 6 AWS regions, focusing on reliability, security, and performance for payment services.
  • Design and maintain declarative infrastructure using Kubernetes manifests.
  • Build and integrate Kubernetes operators to streamline infrastructure management and empower consumer teams.
  • Oversee monitoring, alerting, and logging for platform observability and health.
  • Implement and maintain security controls that meet regulatory requirements for payment services.
  • Troubleshoot and debug platform issues across the infrastructure.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with office presence required 3 days per week in specified locations (Cincinnati, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Denver).
  • Opportunity to work with a highly skilled team in a dynamic, global online environment.
  • Engagement in cutting-edge technologies such as service mesh, serverless computing, and evolving containerized runtimes.
  • Collaboration on high-impact projects related to financial trades and digital payment solutions.
Full Job Description
Job Description

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.

What you'll own
  • 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


What you'll bring
  • 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)
  • Have 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)


It's a bonus if you have
  • 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


About the team

Our inclusive and global teams win together every day. We're proud to have the best minds in the industry, who you can learn from as you grow your career. The people, the energy, the connections - it's unmatched. Come and be part of an ever-evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders.

Within our "Platform Team" at Worldpay, we are building, releasing and operating technology products and services to support an elastically scalable and fault tolerant platform running Kubernetes with OpenShift at scale.

In addition, we are exploring the evolution of containerized runtimes and looking to take advantage of emerging technology around service mesh and serverless. Apart from this we get involved in persistence related topics like Kafka.

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