Platform Engineer II - AWS, Kubernetes & Golang

Worldpay; Cincinnati (OH); Hybrid; USD 91,900 - 138,700; Full time

Job summary

Worldpay is seeking a Platform Engineer II to join the GKOP Platform run by the Atlas team. This hybrid role involves managing OpenShift/Kubernetes across 25+ clusters in 6 AWS regions, focusing on reliability, security, and performance for payment services.

You will design declarative infrastructure, build or integrate operators, and own observability, security, and incident response to keep the platform healthy and scalable. Salary range $91,900–$138,700 announced for this full-time role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, computer science or related field and 5+ years of experience or equivalent.
• Solid production experience with container orchestration (OpenShift, Kubernetes).
• Experience with AWS and immutable infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Multi-region OpenShift platform operations across 6 AWS regions and 25+ clusters.
• Design and maintain declarative infrastructure using Kubernetes manifests.
• Build or integrate Kubernetes operators to reduce toil and enable self-serve teams.
• Own observability, monitoring, alerting, and logging for the platform.
• Implement container security controls to meet regulatory requirements.
• Incident response and troubleshooting across the fleet.

Skills

OpenShift

Kubernetes

AWS

Python

Golang

GitOps

CI/CD

Terraform

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

AWS

argoCD

Flux

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Terraform

Job description

Job Description

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship, now or in the future. Candidates must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder.

This position is hybrid 3 days per week in the following offices: Cincinnati, OH, Atlanta, GA, Jacksonville, FL or Denver, CO. This position is not eligible for remote work.

Ready to take your career global?

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We're looking for a Platform Engineer II to join our ever-evolving GKOP Platform run by Atlas team and help us unleash the potential of every business.

What You’ll Own

• Multi-region OpenShift platform operations - Manage at scale 25+ OpenShift clusters across 6 AWS regions, ensuring reliability, security, and performance for payment services
• Infrastructure as Code & GitOps - Design and maintain declarative infrastructure using Kubernetes manifests
• Kubernetes Operators & automation - Build or integrate operators that simplify infrastructure management, reduce toil, and enable consumer teams to self-serve without platform team bottlenecks.
• Observability & platform health - Own monitoring, alerting, and logging across the platform.
• Container Security & compliance - Implement and maintain security controls to support payment services and regulatory requirements.
• Incident response & troubleshooting - Debug platform issues across our fleet

What You’ll Bring

• A bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, computer science or other related discipline plus 5+ years of experience or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience
• Solid experience and comfortable managing with container orchestration technologies in production (eg: RedHat OpenShift, Kubernetes)
• Strong experience with containers and immutable infrastructure
• Strong experience of working in Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Have knowledge of or demonstrable experience in programming languages (such as Python, Golang)
• Experience with GitOps deployment tools such as argoCD or Flux
• Experience in continuous integration and delivery tooling (eg: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform)

It’s a bonus if you have

• Experience of working in a global online business, ideally providing financial trades or transfers; of particular interest are payment companies, merchant providers, financial trading platforms and online gaming experience
• Knowledge of security aspects of financial trading/monetary transfer systems; including but not limited to PCI Compliance, DDoS prevention, IDS, Container Security and regulatory audit requirements
• Experience with running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes (architecture, components, producers, consumers, deployment, configuration, optimization, ZooKeeper, brokers etc)
• Experience with running Persistence services on Kubernetes (redis etc)
• Good knowledge of standard internet protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, HTTP and relevant troubleshooting tools and knowledge of Linux based operating systems

About The Team

Our inclusive and global teams win together every day. We're proud to have the best minds in the industry, who you can learn from as you grow your career. The people, the energy, the connections - it's unmatched. Come and be part of an ever-evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders.

Within our "Platform Team" at Worldpay, we are building, releasing and operating technology products and services to support an elastically scalable and fault tolerant platform running Kubernetes with OpenShift at scale.

In addition, we are exploring the evolution of containerized runtimes and looking to take advantage of emerging technology around service mesh and serverless. Apart from this we get involved in persistence related topics like Kafka.

What makes a Globalpayer?

Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team. We're curious and innovative - always finding better ways to deliver impact. We empower each other to make decisions, and it's our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do.

Worldpay is dedicated to offering individuals rewarding career opportunities and competitive compensation. For this full-time position, the good faith estimated annual salary range upon hire is $91,900.00-$138,700.00. This range reflects what we reasonably expect to offer based on the role’s responsibilities, level, and geographic location. The actual starting salary will be determined by a candidate’s experience, job-related skills, and relevant education or training. Please note that changes in work location may impact the final offered salary. We encourage you to consult with your recruiter to confirm the budget for your location and to better understand the applicable pay scale.

Candidates and applicants are advised they may redact age information from requested items like transcripts, resumes, and certificates attached to their application for positions that can be performed in Colorado.

EEOC Statement

Worldpay is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here.

If you are made a conditional offer of employment and will be working in the United States, you will be required to undergo a drug test. In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies and requirements needed to successfully perform the position. Reasonable accommodations will be provided for individuals with qualified disabilities both during the hiring process, as well as to allow the individual to perform the essential functions of the job, if hired.