Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Job Profile Summary

Designs, develops, and implements enterprise platform software services that enable scalable, secure, and policy-enforced production operations across the software delivery lifecycle. Builds and maintains control plane components, event-driven automation systems, and policy-as-code enforcement engines that integrate self-service developer experiences, governance gates, and observability capabilities into a unified platform. Implements resilient, highly available architectures with fault-tolerance patterns that ensure platform reliability at enterprise scale.

Applies modern software engineering practices including API-first design, micro services architecture, and CI/CD automation to deliver production-ready solutions aligned with organizational compliance, reliability, and operational excellence objectives.

• Implements strategic goals established by Executives and Senior Management and establishes operational plans for technical area of responsibility with short- to mid-term (0-3 years) impact on results.
• Designs, builds, directs, and implements enterprise infrastructure technology platforms and systems across cloud, network, database, storage, platform, computing, or middleware domains.
• Develops and applies advanced automation, monitoring, and optimization techniques to ensure high availability and performance of infrastructure.
• Leads large, complex technical infrastructure initiatives of strategic importance to the organization, involving large cross-departmental teams.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams and external partners to integrate new technologies and drive continuous improvement of infrastructure standards and processes.
• Troubleshoots and resolves numerous, complex critical technical issues impacting infrastructure performance and reliability.
• Ensures compliance with technology strategies, standards, and governance to mitigate risks and maintain regulatory adherence.
• Documents and effectively communicates infrastructure designs, configurations, and procedures to support operational consistency and knowledge sharing.
• Provides advanced technical guidance and training to infrastructure teams and lower-level technical professionals.
• Demonstrates technical innovation in supporting business objectives and technical strategic objectives.
• Influences infrastructure-related decisions and communicates effectively with stakeholders to align solutions with business objectives.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of professional experience in infrastructure engineering.
• Advanced knowledge of enterprise infrastructure technologies including cloud, network, database, storage, platform, computing, and middleware.

• Experience in the financial services industry, particularly within regulated environments subject to FFIEC, SOX, NIST 800-53, or PCI compliance frameworks.
• Strong proficiency in Python (FastAPI) and/or Java for implementing production microservices deployed on Kubernetes or Open Shift.
• Hands-on implementation experience with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego for policy-as-code authoring, testing, and enforcement.
• Proven experience implementing Apache Kafka producer/consumer services, schema registry integration (Confluent), and event-driven architecture patterns in production environments.
• Demonstrated experience implementing resilience patterns including circuit breakers, bulkheads, retry with backoff, dead-letter queues, and graceful degradation in distributed systems.
• Experience implementing horizontal scaling, connection pooling, caching strategies, and performance optimization to meet sub-200ms p95 latency and 99.9%+ availability SLOs.
• Proficiency implementing Git Lab CI/CD pipelines, including custom pipeline stages, security scanning integration, and governance gate development.
• Experience implementing Backstage developer portal workflows, including software template development, catalog entity management, and scaffolder plugin authoring.
• Working knowledge of Hashi Corp Vault for implementing secrets injection, credential rotation, and automated secrets path bootstrapping.
• Experience implementing observability instrumentation using Open Telemetry, Prometheus, Splunk, and distributed tracing systems (Jaeger/Tempo).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure) and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience implementing container security practices including image signing (Cosign), SBOM generation (CycloneDX), and container scanning pipelines.
• Industry certifications such as CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, Hashi Corp Certified Vault Associate, or equivalent.
• Prior experience implementing or contributing to internal developer platforms (IDPs) or platform engineering initiatives at enterprise scale.
• Experience engineering with AI coding agents and…