Lead Platform Engineer — Kubernetes & OpenShift

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE); Jacksonville (FL); On-site; USD 165,000 - 190,000; Full time

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.