Lead Platform Engineer, Systems Engineering

ICE; New York (NY); On-site; USD 149,400 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage (medical, dental, vision)

401(k) plan

Paid leave for qualifying circumstances

Job summary

ICE in New York is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to enhance their Kubernetes Platform Engineering team. The successful candidate will own the delivery of platform features, mentor team members, and work across the full platform stack. This role requires a deep understanding of Kubernetes and strong communication for effective documentation.

The expected salary is between $149,400 to $180,000 USD, complemented by competitive benefits including healthcare coverage and a 401(k) plan.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or a related discipline.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in a production environment.
• Strong communication skills, able to document and communicate changes.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver platform features and enhancements, from design through deployment.
• Lead onboarding of new teams onto the platform via self-service workflows.
• Implement and tune Kyverno admission control policies for security.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

Kubernetes

OpenShift

GitOps

Observability

Tools

GitHub

ArgoCD

Grafana

Helm

Job description

Job Purpose: The Kubernetes Platform Engineering (KPE) team builds and operates ICE's internal container orchestration platform powered by Red Hat OpenShift. KPE Features, the Solutions Engineering sub‑team, serves as the primary interface between the platform and its consumers across ICE's various business units.

Overview

We are looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to join KPE Features. In this role, you will own and drive platform capabilities that enable development teams to deploy and operate workloads at enterprise scale. You’ll work across the full platform stack from GitOps pipelines and policy enforcement to observability infrastructure, while providing technical leadership and mentorship to others on the team.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver platform features and enhancements, driving work from design through deployment and documentation.
• Lead onboarding of new teams and workloads onto the platform via self‑service and GitOps‑based provisioning workflows.
• Maintain and evolve ArgoCD‑based GitOps pipelines and Kustomize overlay configurations across multiple clusters.
• Implement and tune Kyverno admission control policies to enforce security and operational standards across the platform.
• Build and maintain observability tooling, including Grafana dashboards, Tempo distributed tracing, and alerting.
• Collaborate with KPE‑Infrastructure and KPE‑Enablement sub‑teams on cluster lifecycle events, upgrades, and cross‑cutting platform concerns.
• Engage with platform consumers and stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
• Own and maintain platform documentation, runbooks, and internal knowledge bases on Confluence.
• Participate in 2nd or 3rd level support for on‑call rotation.

Knowledge and Experience

• 6+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or a related discipline.
• Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes in a production environment; OpenShift experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with Kubernetes configuration and templating tools such as Kustomize or Helm.
• Comfort operating in Linux environments and working with YAML‑heavy configuration management.
• Strong communication skills; this team writes documentation and communicates changes to a broad consumer base.
• Deep proficiency in multiple platform disciplines:
  • Observability: Grafana dashboards, Prometheus alerting pipelines, distributed tracing (Tempo, Jaeger), log aggregation (Loki, Vector, Cortex), and related logging/monitoring practices.
  • GitOps & Release Engineering: GitHub, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Kustomize, Helm, and Git‑based delivery workflows.
  • Infrastructure Engineering: Kubernetes on bare metal, cluster networking (CNI, OVN‑Kubernetes, network policy), storage and CSI drivers, and hardware‑layer operations.
  • Security & Policy Enforcement: Policy‑as‑code tooling (Kyverno, OPA/Gatekeeper), admission webhooks, and container security practices.

Preferred Knowledge and Experience

• Red Hat OpenShift Certified Administrator (EX280) or equivalent certification.
• Experience supporting internal platform consumers or operating in a shared‑services model.
• Ansible and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP).
• Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM).
• Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security (ACS).
• Experience with HyperShift or OpenShift Hosted Control Planes strongly preferred.
• Podman and container image build/management workflows.
• Experience developing custom Kubernetes operators.

New York Base Salary Range

The expected base salary for this role, if located in New York, is between $149,400 – $180,000 USD.

Regular full‑time ICE employees are eligible for a suite of competitive employee benefits, including healthcare coverage (medical, dental and vision), a 401(k) plan, life insurance, time off, and paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.