Senior Platform Engineer, Systems Engineering

Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc.; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is seeking a full‑time Platform Engineer to join the team responsible for ICE OpenShift and Kubernetes infrastructure.

You will drive enablement and adoption to migrate high‑performing apps to a microservices model, collaborating with development, release, and operations teams to deliver scalable container solutions. The role covers design, implementation, capacity planning, and root-cause analysis, with on-call rotation and production support in a 24/7

Qualifications

• Degree in engineering discipline or equivalent experience in Platform Engineering.
• 5+ years of experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift in production.
• Experience with container infrastructure design, planning and implementation.
• Familiarity with observability, metrics and logging in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, support and maintain Kubernetes/OpenShift platform infrastructure.
• Assist in planning and implementing container infrastructure solutions.
• Capacity planning, tuning, policy and cost management.
• Provide technical analysis and coordinate with developers, operations, and release engineers.
• Educate and mentor platform consumers and operations staff.
• Participate in weekly on-call rotation for after-hours support.
• Respond to production operations in a 24/7 environment.

Skills

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Python

Golang

Docker

AWS EC2

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

Docker

Ansible

Kubernetes

Kyverno

OpenShift

Job description

Overview

Job Purpose

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) presents a unique opportunity for a full-time Engineer to join a team responsible for ICE OpenShift container platform. The Engineer will drive enablement and adoption to migrate high performant and critical applications into a microservices model utilizing container technologies by working closely with our development and engineering teams. This individual works as part of a results-oriented, service-delivery team and assists developers, configuration analysts, release engineers, developers, and operations teams. Additionally, the Engineer performs root cause analysis of problems, selects and implements automation tools, and actively participates in deeply technical discourse.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, support, and maintain Kubernetes and OpenShift platform infrastructure
• Assist in the design, planning and implementation of container infrastructure solutions
• Capacity planning, tuning, policy and cost management
• Provide technical analysis, resolve problems, propose, and implement solutions
• Provide support to, and coordinate with developers, operations staff, release engineers, and end-users
• Educate and mentor platform consumers, team members and operations staff
• Participate in a weekly on-call rotation for after-hours support
• Respond to and assist in production operations in a 24/7 environment

Knowledge and Experience

• Degree in engineering discipline or equivalent experience in Platform Engineering
• 5+ years of experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift in a Production environment
• Understanding of major Kubernetes components and familiarity with industry standard implementations of CNI, CSI and ingresses
• Horizontal and vertical scaling for performance and high availability
• Experience with platform and application observability (tracing, logging metrics)
• Top-tier analytics and problem solving
• Ability to work in a service-oriented team environment
• Project Management, organization, and time management
• Customer focused, and dedicated to the best possible user experience
• Communicate effectively with both technical and business resources

Preferred Knowledge and Experience

• 2+ years of experience with Docker and/or Podman
• Experience with self-managed Kubernetes and/or OpenShift
• Experience with OpenShift deployments on-prem and in commercial clouds
• Experience with Kubernetes policy engines, e.g. Kyverno
• Experience with performant implementations of service meshes
• Build automation and configuration management
• Software development experience (Golang, Python)
• Advanced scripting experience (Python, Bash, Powershell)
• Experience with Amazon EKS, ROSA or ARO
• Experience with Ansible
• Experience with deployment of Kubernetes / OpenShift onto on prem infrastructure and/or AWS EC2 instances

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Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.