Expert Platform Engineer

Purpose:

To design and evolve scalable, secure, and resilient technology platforms that enable engineering teams to efficiently develop, deploy, operate, and monitor enterprise applications and digital services. 

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design and implement scalable platform architecture and engineering solutions. 

• Define platform engineering standards, patterns, and technical practices. 

• Develop and enhance infrastructure automation and Infrastructure-as-Code capabilities. 

• Design and optimize CI/CD platforms, deployment pipelines, and developer tooling. 

• Drive containerization, orchestration, cloud, and platform automation practices. 

• Ensure platform security, resilience, availability, scalability, and performance. 

• Lead technical resolution of complex platform and infrastructure issues. 

• Develop self-service platform capabilities that improve developer productivity. 

• Evaluate platform technologies and recommend improvements and modernization opportunities. 

• Provide advanced technical guidance and mentorship to engineers. 

• Collaborate with architecture, cybersecurity, cloud, SRE, and application engineering teams. 

QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Infrastructure.
• Expert hands-on experience with Kubernetes and AWS Cloud in production environments.
• Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD automation.
• Strong knowledge of Linux, networking, security, and cloud architecture.
• Proven experience designing and supporting highly available, scalable, and resilient platforms.
• Strong experience with monitoring, observability, incident management, and production troubleshooting.
• Experience in Banking, FinTech, or Payment environments is highly preferred.
• Good understanding of PCI-DSS and security/compliance requirements.