Platform Engineer II - AWS, Kubernetes & Golang

Greater Giving, Inc.; Jacksonville (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Worldpay is seeking a Platform Engineer II to help scale our GKOP Atlas platform across multiple AWS regions, ensuring reliability for payment services. You will design declarative infrastructure with Kubernetes manifests and build operators to automate tasks, enabling consumer teams to self-serve.

You will own observability, platform health, and container security, and participate in incident response across a global fleet, partnering with a global Platform Team to deliver scalable, compliant

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Multi-region OpenShift platform operations across 25+ clusters in 6 AWS regions.
• Infrastructure as Code & GitOps using Kubernetes manifests.
• Kubernetes Operators & automation to reduce toil and enable self‑service.
• Observability, monitoring, and platform health ownership.
• Container security and compliance for payments and regulatory needs.
• Incident response and troubleshooting across the fleet.

Skills

OpenShift ops

Kubernetes

GitOps

IaC

Automation

Observability

Security

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's in CS/CE

Tools

AWS

ArgoCD/Flux

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Jenkins

Job description

Job Overview

We’re looking for a Platform Engineer II to join our ever‑evolving GKOP Platform run by the Atlas team and help us unleash the potential of every business.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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 managing production container orchestration technologies (eg: RedHat OpenShift, Kubernetes).
• Strong experience with containers and immutable infrastructure.
• Strong experience working in Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• 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).

Optional Bonus Qualifications

• Experience working in a global online business, ideally providing financial trades or transfers; interest in payment companies, merchant providers, financial trading platforms, or online gaming.
• Knowledge of security aspects of financial trading/monetary transfer systems, including PCI Compliance, DDoS prevention, IDS, container security and regulatory audit requirements.
• Experience running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes (architecture, components, producers, consumers, deployment, configuration, optimization, ZooKeeper, brokers).
• Experience 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. Within our Platform Team at Worldpay, we build, release, and operate technology products and services to support an elastically scalable and fault‑tolerant platform running Kubernetes with OpenShift at scale. We also explore containerized runtimes, service mesh, serverless, and persistence topics like Kafka.

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.

Benefits

My Health

We offer access to medical coverage that supports the health and wellbeing for you and your family.

My Money

In addition to base salary, you may be eligible for bonuses and/or equity awards, determined by role, level, impact, and our policies.

My Lifestyle

We have a dedicated Wellness Week each year – which includes an extra paid day off – so you can take time to relax, recharge and invest in your wellbeing.

My Family

FLEX, our family inclusion community, offers support for all Globalpayers at every stage, from raising families to caring for loved ones.

My Time Off

We offer paid time off and public holidays so you can rest, recharge and spend time on what matters most.

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Sourcing Model

Recruitment at Global Payments works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. Global Payments does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.