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Sr. Platform Engineer (AKS/EKS)
Remote Site Reliability Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJul 1, 2026
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
USA
Role overview
Sr. Platform Engineer (AKS/EKS)
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- Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, frameworks, and industry trends related to payment systems and cloud computing.
- Design and implement microservices-based architecture using domain-driven design principles.
- Utilize Kubernetes for container orchestration and management, ensuring scalability, reliability, and high availability of the payment system.
- Implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting mechanisms to ensure system performance and availability .
- Develop highly resilient and highly available components for the payment system
- Conduct technology evaluations and provide recommendations for new tools, technologies, and frameworks that can enhance our payment infrastructure.
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth.
- Strong Kubernetes(K8S) experience required
- 6+ years of experience in rearchitecting large-scale monolithic applications to cloud-native architectures.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
- 4+ years of experience with cloud computing platforms with AWS and/or Azure including experience with serverless architectures, containers, and orchestration
- experience with payment industry standards, protocols, and security best practices
- knowledge of load balancing algorithms (will be asked in interview)
- must have worked in an AWS environment, working heavily with Kubernetes (EKS)/(AKS)
- must know security best practices for containers and clusters
- must know terraform well
- strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
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