Platform Engineer II - AWS, Kubernetes & Golang

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.

Are you ready to write your next chapter?

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a Platform Engineer II to join our ever-evolving GKOP Platform run by Atlas team and help us unleash the potential of every business.

What you’ll own as the Platform Engineer Multi-region Open Shift platform operations — Manage at scale 25+ Open Shift clusters across 6 AWS regions, ensuring reliability, security, and performance for payment services

Infrastructure as Code & Git Ops — 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: Red Hat Open Shift, 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 Git Ops deployment tools such as argo

CD or Flux Experience in continuous integration and delivery tooling (eg: Git Hub 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, Zoo Keeper, 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 Working with a group of highly skilled platform engineers, this role is all about engineering and maturing the global Worldpay Kubernetes/Open Shift platform and beyond.

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 Open Shift at  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.

To learn more about our winning teams, check out our world-class teams that own it every day.

What makes a World payer What makes a World payer? It’s simple:
Think, Act, Win. We stay curious, always asking the right questions and finding creative solutions to simplify the complex. We’re dynamic, every World payer is empowered to make the right decisions for their customers. And we’re determined, always staying open and winning and failing as one.

Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a World payer. Apply now to write the next chapter in your career.#LI-AD1

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