Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer – Kubernetes & Terraform

Archer; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Archer in Columbus, OH partners with JPMorgan Chase to recruit a Software Engineer III to design, deliver and operate trusted, scalable tech products for corporate technology platforms. You will own container platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure orchestration, collaborating across security, infra, and application teams to improve platform stability.

The role emphasizes hands-on work with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, MySQL, Kafka, and observability tools like Splunk, Dynatrace, and

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in a DevOps / Platform / SRE / Infrastructure Engineering role.
• Strong experience with Docker containers and Kubernetes (core concepts, workloads, configs/secrets, troubleshooting).
• Experience with Artifactory (repository management and artifact promotion practices).
• Solid Linux fundamentals (system troubleshooting, processes, networking basics, scripting).
• Proven delivery of CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins/GitLab CI/Azure DevOps or similar) with automated testing and deployment.
• Hands-on infrastructure provisioning with Terraform (modules, state, remote backends, environments).
• Working experience with MySQL (operations, backup/restore concepts, troubleshooting, monitoring).
• Working experience with Kafka (topics/partitions, producers/consumers, operational monitoring/troubleshooting).
• Experience with observability/telemetry tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana (logs/metrics/traces; alert tuning).
• Understanding of load balancing concepts and operational support in production environments.
• Practical experience supporting high availability, sustained operations, and DR/resiliency planning and testing.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate container platforms using Docker and Kubernetes, including deployments, scaling, and lifecycle management.
• Develop and maintain Linux-based CI/CD pipelines (build, test, package, deploy), improving reliability, security, and speed.
• Manage artifact lifecycle and dependency workflows using Artifactory (publishing, promotion, retention, access controls).
• Provision and manage infrastructure using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code best practices (versioning, reviews, drift detection).
• Support MySQL and Kafka components in production environments, including basic configuration, performance troubleshooting, and operational monitoring (as applicable to the role).
• Implement and support infrastructure management activities (capacity planning, patching strategy, configuration management, standardization).
• Enhance observability and telemetry: logging, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerting, and incident response using tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, and Grafana.
• Configure and support load balancers and traffic management patterns (routing, health checks, TLS termination, failover).
• Contribute to sustained resiliency and disaster recovery readiness (RTO/RPO understanding, runbooks, testing, failure exercises).
• Drive automation across operational workflows (environment provisioning, deployment, validation, remediation, reporting).
• Collaborate with application teams, security, and infrastructure partners to improve platform stability and delivery practices.

Skills

Docker

Kubernetes

Artifactory

Linux fundamentals

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

MySQL

Kafka

Splunk

Dynatrace

Grafana

Load balancing

Automation

Security collaboration

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Artifactory

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Archer in Columbus, OH partners with JPMorgan Chase to recruit a Software Engineer III to design, deliver and operate trusted, scalable tech products for corporate technology platforms. You will own container platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure orchestration, collaborating across security, infra, and application teams to improve platform stability.

The role emphasizes hands-on work with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, MySQL, Kafka, and observability tools like Splunk, Dynatrace, and