Platform Engineer II: Cloud, CI/CD & Kubernetes

GreatAmerica Bank National Association; Cedar Rapids (IA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Parking

Service Awards

Hybrid work arrangements

Business casual environment

Culture focused on our greatest asset

Job summary

GreatAmerica is seeking a Platform Engineer II to design, implement, and maintain technology platforms that support our business and technology operations. This role collaborates with engineering and business teams to deliver secure, reliable, scalable platform solutions while driving automation and incident resolution.

You will work with Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipelines, applying GitOps, monitoring, security controls, and compliance in a regulated financial services environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience supporting, engineering, or administering technology platforms.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation; reduce manual effort through repeatable processes.
• Write and maintain infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) to provision and manage cloud and platform infrastructure in a consistent, version-controlled way.
• Build and maintain containerized services and deployment pipelines; apply GitOps practices so environment changes are driven from version-controlled source rather than manual steps.
• Deploy and manage Kubernetes workloads (Pods, Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets); package applications with Helm and configure storage and basic networking (Ingress, network policies) for owned services.
• Maintain accurate configuration management records and incident/problem/change process discipline for owned platforms.
• Monitor platform performance; troubleshoot issues and serve as an escalation point; participate in incident response and root cause analysis.
• Build monitoring and alerting that surfaces upstream vendor or integration failures clearly and early, rather than only at the point of downstream impact.
• Implement and maintain security controls and access management; support audit and compliance activities.
• Partner with engineering and business teams on platform best practices and reusable tooling.

Skills

Cloud platform

CI/CD pipelines

GitOps workflows

Kubernetes

Terraform

Linux basics

Bash/Python

Networking basics

SQL

RBAC & secrets

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Jira/ServiceNow

Job description

GreatAmerica is seeking a Platform Engineer II to design, implement, and maintain technology platforms that support our business and technology operations. This role collaborates with engineering and business teams to deliver secure, reliable, scalable platform solutions while driving automation and incident resolution.

You will work with Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipelines, applying GitOps, monitoring, security controls, and compliance in a regulated financial services environment.