Senior Platform Engineer: Kubernetes & On-Prem

Devopsroles; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Adyen, a global fintech company, is seeking a Platform Engineer for the Container Services team in Chicago. You will design, build, and operate critical infrastructure, drive automation, and help scale our platform across regions.

This role requires hands-on experience with Kubernetes at scale, on-prem infrastructure, and strong scripting skills. You will collaborate with global teams, contribute to platform modernization, and participate in on-call rotations to maintain high reliability.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or software engineering.
• Advanced Linux system administration, networking, and security fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate core infrastructure: design, implement, and maintain container orchestration (Kubernetes) and supporting infra across our global private cloud.
• Drive automation and reduce toil: develop tooling that improves provisioning, configuration management, and operational workflows.
• Ensure reliability at scale: own availability and performance, participate in on-call rotations, drive incident response and postmortem processes.
• Collaborate across teams and time zones: work with platform engineers in Chicago, supporting 24/7 infrastructure across regions.
• Shape platform evolution: contribute to architectural decisions, evaluate new tech, drive modernization incl. multi-region resilience.

Skills

Platform engineering

Linux

Kubernetes

GitOps

Bash scripting

Python/Go

On-prem/bare-metal

Tools

Terraform

Consul

Nomad

Vault

ArgoCD

HAProxy/Nginx

Ansible

Puppet

Job description

Adyen, a global fintech company, is seeking a Platform Engineer for the Container Services team in Chicago. You will design, build, and operate critical infrastructure, drive automation, and help scale our platform across regions.

This role requires hands-on experience with Kubernetes at scale, on-prem infrastructure, and strong scripting skills. You will collaborate with global teams, contribute to platform modernization, and participate in on-call rotations to maintain high reliability.