Senior Platform Engineer - Kubernetes & On-Prem Automation

EngineersOfAI; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 243,000; Full time

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Job summary

Adyen is seeking a Platform Engineer for the Container Services team in Chicago to design, build, and operate core infrastructure across our global private cloud. You will own container orchestration (Kubernetes) and drive automation to reduce toil while ensuring high availability.

Collaborate with platform engineers across time zones, contribute to platform modernization, and participate in on-call rotations to maintain reliability in a 24/7 environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of platform, infrastructure, or software engineering experience.
• Linux system administration, networking, and security fundamentals.
• Hands-on Kubernetes at scale, cluster operations, troubleshooting.
• On-prem/bare-metal infrastructure experience.
• Bash scripting plus Python or Go for tooling.
• Nice to have FinTech or regulated industry exposure.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate core infrastructure: Design, implement, and maintain container orchestration (Kubernetes) and supporting infrastructure across our global private cloud.
• Drive automation and reduce toil: Develop tooling and automation that improves provisioning, configuration management, and operational workflows, enabling self-service for engineering teams and reducing manual effort.
• Ensure reliability at scale: Own the availability and performance of critical platform systems, participate in on-call rotations, and drive incident response and postmortem processes that continuously improve our operational posture.
• Collaborate across teams and time zones: Work closely with platform engineers in Chicago, contributing to a global team that operates 24/7 infrastructure across multiple regions and datacenters.
• Shape platform evolution: Contribute to architectural decisions, evaluate new technologies, and help drive platform modernization initiatives - including migration strategies, multi-region resilience, and infrastructure standardization.

Skills

Platform engineering

Linux administration

Networking & security fundamentals

Bash scripting

Python or Go

Incident response & on-call

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Consul

Nomad

Vault

ArgoCD

HAProxy

Nginx

Ansible

Puppet

Job description

Adyen is seeking a Platform Engineer for the Container Services team in Chicago to design, build, and operate core infrastructure across our global private cloud. You will own container orchestration (Kubernetes) and drive automation to reduce toil while ensuring high availability.

Collaborate with platform engineers across time zones, contribute to platform modernization, and participate in on-call rotations to maintain reliability in a 24/7 environment.