Senior Software Engineer – Kubernetes Platform Engineering, Service Mesh & Developer Platforms (Golang APIs)
$122,000–$200,000 year
On-siteCharlotte, North Carolina, United States or Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Job Summary
Define and deliver next-generation cloud-native platform capabilities across the bank's enterprise container ecosystem, focusing on Kubernetes automation, service mesh enablement, and CI/CD modernization. Lead architecture and engineering for highly scalable, secure, and resilient platform services while establishing automation patterns and best practices adopted across multiple teams. Conduct research, design prototyping, and solution exploration for release management, evaluating new toolsets and adapting testing frameworks. Drive technical oversight for teams delivering end-to-end complex features, including API-driven automation, self-service onboarding, and governance compliance. Partner with architecture, security, SRE, and application teams to accelerate container technology adoption across Red Hat OpenShift, Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, and on-premises environments. Serve as a senior technical leader shaping the future direction of the Foundational Platform Engineering team, providing mentorship and influencing engineering strategy for hybrid cloud enablement and observability initiatives.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, cloud-native development, or distributed systems engineering
- Strong proficiency in Golang (Go) with hands-on experience building APIs, microservices, controllers, operators, and automation solutions
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (K8s) and/or Red Hat OpenShift (OCP) in enterprise production environments
- Experience designing, deploying, and supporting cloud-native applications and platform services
- Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Tekton, Argo CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or similar platforms
- Experience implementing and supporting GitOps-based deployment models
- Hands-on experience with Service Mesh technologies such as Istio, Consul, Linkerd, or equivalent service networking solutions
- Strong understanding of: Microservices architecture
- Distributed systems design
- Container technologies (Docker/OCI)
- API-first development principles
- Cloud-native application patterns
- Experience integrating enterprise services including: Identity & Access Management (IAM)
- Secrets Management (Vault or equivalent)
- Service Discovery
- Security and Compliance controls
- Platform onboarding workflows
- Experience with monitoring, observability, and troubleshooting tools such as: Prometheus
- Grafana
- Dynatrace
- OpenTelemetry
- Elasticsearch/Splunk
- Jaeger or distributed tracing platforms
- Strong problem-solving, debugging, performance tuning, and root-cause analysis skills
- Experience working collaboratively with Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps, Infrastructure, Security, and Application Development teams
- Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into practical solutions
- Demonstrated ownership, accountability, and ability to deliver solutions in large-scale enterprise environments
- Shift: 1st shift (United States of America)
- Hours Per Week: 40
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with Kubernetes platforms such as OpenShift, EKS, AKS, Rancher, GKE, or Tanzu
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm)
- Experience developing Kubernetes operators, controllers, or platform APIs
- Familiarity with enterprise networking and security concepts including: Ingress/Egress API Gateways
- TLS/mTLS
- Zero Trust architectures
- Experience supporting hybrid cloud and multi-cluster environments
- Exposure to financial services or other highly regulated industries
- Experience building self-service platform capabilities and developer enablement solutions
- Experience driving automation initiatives that improve developer productivity, operational efficiency, and platform reliability
- Kubernetes certifications such as CKA, CKAD, or CKS are a plus
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