Senior/Staff Platform Engineer

Description

ROLE SUMMARY

Sits within a newly acquired startup building an AI-enabled, autonomous banking platform for Tier-1 financial institutions within the banking group. The Platform Engineer builds and operates the multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure that powers the platform at five-nines availability, owning GitOps delivery, observability, disaster recovery, zero-trust security, and AI-driven SRE automation. Ships directly into production environments at the world's largest banks.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure & Architecture
• Infrastructure: Build and scale multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure (EKS/GKE/AKS) for five-nines workloads.
• Architecture: Architect active-active distributed systems.
• GitOps: Implement Terraform, Helm, and GitOps (Flux) across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Reliability & Security
• Resiliency: Own DR, failover, backup/restore, and multi-region resiliency.
• Security: Drive zero-trust security, identity, multi-tenant isolation, and cryptographic audit trails.
• Observability: Build and maintain stacks using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and OpenTelemetry.
• AI & Operations
• AI-SRE: Lead AI-driven automation: auto-remediation, incident insights, and AI-based root cause analysis.
• Deployment: Support on-prem and air-gapped deployments and legacy integrations.
• Contribute to team excellence through knowledge sharing, mentoring, and coaching, helping to develop technical capability and promote engineering best practices across the organization
• REQUIRED EXPERIENCE & CAPABILITIES
• Technical Expertise
• Deep Kubernetes experience (EKS/GKE/AKS; operators/CRDs a bonus).
• Terraform (multi-cloud). GitOps tooling: Flux or ArgoCD.
• Kafka / event streaming. Distributed SQL databases.
• Language: Go, Rust, or similar (AI-accelerated development welcome).
• Cloud & Reliability
• Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry observability stack experience.
• DR, HA, and Zero-Trust architecture design and ownership.
• Operating Style
• Strong ownership mindset across the full infrastructure lifecycle.
• Comfortable operating in hybrid cloud and regulated environments.
• AI-native engineer: integrates LLMs and agentic workflows into daily engineering practice.
• IMPACT & SCOPE
• Direct impact on core banking platforms used by Tier-1 global institutions.
• High autonomy and accountability within a small, senior team.
• Work shipped directly to production environments at enterprise scale.
• WHY THIS ROLE
• This role offers the autonomy, ownership, and technical depth of a startup, combined with the scale, stability, and long-term impact of FIS. Engineers in this role shape foundational banking infrastructure while operating with clear accountability, enterprise resources, and real-world production responsibility.