Platform Engineer - On-Prem Kubernetes & CI/CD

Fintal Partners; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Fintal Partners seeks a Platform Engineer to accelerate engineering by building and operating on-prem Kubernetes clusters, containers, and CI/CD tooling. The role focuses on reliability, security, and performance across the firm’s private infrastructure.

You will collaborate with software teams to design scalable CI/CD pipelines, optimize storage and networking, and ensure disaster recovery readiness while keeping environments consistent across clusters.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience, ideally on-prem.
• Strong knowledge of containerization and orchestration.
• Experience designing and building CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build, run and maintain highly available on-prem Kubernetes clusters.
• Deploy and manage containerized applications on Kubernetes with in-house tooling.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for on-prem environments.
• Monitor, debug and tune clusters for reliability and performance.
• Apply Kubernetes security best practices including RBAC and network policies.
• Write automation to manage infrastructure and keep environments consistent across clusters.
• Optimize storage and networking setups supporting clusters.
• Own cluster upgrades, backups and disaster recovery planning.

Skills

Kubernetes

On-prem infrastructure

CI/CD pipelines

Security best practices

Networking & storage

Troubleshooting

Collaboration

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Fintal Partners seeks a Platform Engineer to accelerate engineering by building and operating on-prem Kubernetes clusters, containers, and CI/CD tooling. The role focuses on reliability, security, and performance across the firm’s private infrastructure.

You will collaborate with software teams to design scalable CI/CD pipelines, optimize storage and networking, and ensure disaster recovery readiness while keeping environments consistent across clusters.