Senior Payments Platform Engineer

Western Alliance Bancorporation; Town of Texas, Dallas (WI, TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative financial services company is seeking a Senior Payments Platform Engineer to manage their core payment hub platform on Azure Kubernetes Service. This role involves ensuring high availability and security while driving innovation in cloud-native solutions. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in Azure services, DevSecOps practices, and a strong background in banking payments. This position offers a dynamic work environment where collaboration and problem-solving are key, along with competitive benefits and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Competitive salaries

Ownership stake in the company

Medical and dental insurance

401k matching program

Tuition assistance program

Employee volunteer program

Wellness program

Qualifications

• 5+ years in AKS or Kubernetes environments.
• Strong knowledge of security vulnerability management and compliance.
• Experience in banking, payments, or financial services is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize Payment hub application in Azure Kubernetes Service.
• Drive DevSecOps best practices for securing applications.
• Support and optimize core banking payment applications.

Skills

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

DevSecOps

Java

Oracle

Postgres

Kafka

NoSQL databases

Terraform

Helm

CIS hardening

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Ansible

Azure DevOps

ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

AppDynamics

Grafana

Job description

Job Title:

Senior Payments Platform Engineer

Location:

Block 23

What you'll do:

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Platform Engineer - AKS to manage and optimize our core payment hub platform running on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This role will be responsible for ensuring high availability, security, and efficiency of the platform while driving innovation in cloud-native solutions for banking payments. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Azure cloud services, AKS, DevSecOps, security vulnerabilities, CIS hardening, enterprise platform management, Helm chart management, Azure Container Registry (ACR) image management, and AKS Cron jobs. Prior banking experience and expertise in Java, Oracle, MQ, Kafka, Postgres, and NoSQL databases are highly preferred.

This position is part of a dynamic, high-performing, and innovative team that thrives in a fast-paced, agile environment. The ideal candidate will have a passion for collaborative problem-solving, cutting-edge technology, and continuous improvement in managing mission-critical payment platforms.

• Manage, monitor, and optimize Payment hub application in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Implement best practices for scalability, high availability, and resilience in a financial services environment.
• Develop and manage Helm charts for application deployments and configurations.
• Oversee image management in Azure Container Registry (ACR) to ensure compliance and security.
• Develop and manage AKS Cron jobs for scheduled processing in the payments ecosystem.
• Drive DevSecOps best practices for securing applications deployed over AKS.
• Identify and remediate CIS vulnerabilities, security vulnerabilities, and compliance gaps in the platform.
• Desing and Support network security, role-based access control (RBAC), and encryption within AKS and cloud environments.
• Design and Support IAM policies and integrate AKS with Azure Entra ID for secure access and authentication.
• Leverage Azure cloud services for optimizing compute, storage, and networking resources.
• Support Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform templates.
• Manage AKS clusters, CI/CD pipelines, logging, monitoring, and autoscaling.
• Implement and maintain observability tools for AKS environments, including ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), AppDynamics, and Grafana.
• Develop custom alerts, and performance metrics to ensure system health and proactive issue resolution.
• Optimize troubleshooting and root cause analysis using observability best practices.
• Support and optimize core banking payment applications running on Java, WebLogic, IBM Liberty, Oracle, IBM MQ, Kafka, Postgres, and NoSQL.
• Troubleshoot complex platform-related issues, including container orchestration, database integration, and messaging system performance.
• Ensure seamless application lifecycle management on AKS, including rolling updates, auto-healing, and workload scaling.
• Identify and implement automation, cost optimization, and performance enhancements across the platform.
• Stay updated on emerging cloud-native technologies and container security best practices to drive innovation.

What you'll need:

• 5+ years in AKS or Kubernetes environments.
• Bachelors degree in a related field required.
• Expertise in Azure cloud services, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure DevOps, Azure Security, and Azure Networking.
• Strong knowledge of DevSecOps, CIS benchmarks, security vulnerability management, and regulatory compliance.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Helm, Ansible, or other IaC tools.
• Experience in middleware and messaging platforms such as IBM MQ, Kafka.
• Proficiency in relational and NoSQL databases like Oracle, Postgres, Cosmos DB.
• Prior experience working in banking, payments, or financial services is highly preferred.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and performance optimization skills.
• Ability to lead technical initiatives, automation efforts, and cloud migration strategies.
• Experience in IAM and integrating AKS with Azure Entra ID for authentication and access control.
• Hands-on scripting experience using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Exposure to AI/ML-driven observability tools (AppDynamics, ELK, Prometheus/Grafana).
• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio), Kubernetes operators, and container networking preferred.
• Familiarity with financial regulatory requirements like PCI DSS compliance preferred.

Benefits you'll love:
We offer all the important things you'd want - like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you'll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!

About the company:

Western Alliance Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Alliance Bank of Arizona, Alliance Association Bank, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank, and Torrey Pines Bank are divisions of Western Alliance Bank; Member FDIC. AmeriHome Mortgage is a Western Alliance Bank company.

Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email [e-mail] or call 602-386-2488. When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.

Western Alliance Bancorporation