Lead Platform Engineer — Kubernetes & OpenShift

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)

Jacksonville (FL)

On-site

USD 165,000 - 190,000

Full time

6 days ago
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Job summary

Intercontinental Exchange seeks a Lead Platform Engineer to own and drive platform capabilities across GitOps, observability, and security. You will mentor teammates and collaborate with multiple ICE business units to enable enterprise-scale workloads.

The role emphasizes hands-on Kubernetes/OpenShift, policy enforcement with Kyverno, and building self-service pipelines, dashboards, and runbooks for on-call support.

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of platform engineering, DevOps, or related experience.
  • Hands-on Kubernetes in production; OpenShift preferred.
  • Experience with Kubernetes templating tools (Kustomize/Helm).
  • Comfort with Linux and YAML-heavy configurations.
  • Strong communication and documentation skills.
  • Proficiency across multiple platform disciplines: observability, GitOps, infrastructure, security.

Responsibilities

  • Own and deliver platform features from design through deployment and documentation.
  • Lead onboarding of new teams and workloads via self-service and GitOps workflows.
  • Maintain ArgoCD-based GitOps pipelines and Kustomize overlays across multiple clusters.
  • Implement Kyverno admission policies to enforce security and standards.
  • Build observability tooling: Grafana dashboards, Tempo tracing, and alerting.
  • Collaborate with KPE sub-teams on cluster lifecycle events and upgrades.
  • Engage with platform consumers to translate business requirements into scalable solutions.
  • Own and maintain platform documentation, runbooks, and internal knowledge bases.
  • Participate in 2nd/3rd level on-call support.

Skills

Kubernetes
OpenShift
GitOps
ArgoCD
Kyverno
Observability
Automation
Platform Engineering

Job description

Intercontinental Exchange seeks a Lead Platform Engineer to own and drive platform capabilities across GitOps, observability, and security. You will mentor teammates and collaborate with multiple ICE business units to enable enterprise-scale workloads.

The role emphasizes hands-on Kubernetes/OpenShift, policy enforcement with Kyverno, and building self-service pipelines, dashboards, and runbooks for on-call support.

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