Senior Platform & SRE Engineer – Kubernetes & AWS

ICE; Jacksonville (FL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. seeks a Senior Engineer to own the cloud-native platform and reliability tooling across regions. You will manage EKS clusters, implement GitOps, and contribute to Java microservices and React frontends running on the platform.

You will mentor engineers, define SRE practices, performance monitoring, and security scanning, while collaborating with product teams to improve availability and operability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in site reliability, platform, DevOps, or software engineering.
• Hands-on Kubernetes and cloud-native production experience (AWS preferred).
• Experience with infrastructure as code and GitOps tooling.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency in Java or TypeScript/JavaScript for automation.

Responsibilities

• Provisions, upgrades, and operates EKS clusters across regions and environments.
• Manages infrastructure declaratively with Crossplane and ArgoCD GitOps.
• Operates Istio mesh and Envoy with canary rollouts and mutual TLS.
• Designs and runs monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, and OTEL.
• Improves reliability via capacity planning, autoscaling, and incident response.
• Administers platform services like cert-manager and external-dns; integrates AWS services.
• Builds/maintains CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps) and security scanning (e.g., SonarQube).
• Full-stack Java (Spring) and React tooling for platform and micro frontends.
• Develops APIs and automation to support platform self-service.
• Mentors engineers and stays current on cloud, DevOps, and SRE practices.

Skills

Site reliability engineering

DevOps practices

AWS

Kubernetes

GitOps

Java

React (TypeScript)

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Systems design

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

Tools

Crossplane

ArgoCD

Istio

Envoy

Prometheus

Grafana

Jaeger

OpenTelemetry

Jira

Azure DevOps

TFS

Git

OpenShift

Job description

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. seeks a Senior Engineer to own the cloud-native platform and reliability tooling across regions. You will manage EKS clusters, implement GitOps, and contribute to Java microservices and React frontends running on the platform.

You will mentor engineers, define SRE practices, performance monitoring, and security scanning, while collaborating with product teams to improve availability and operability.