Senior Systems Engineer: Platform Automation & Kubernetes

Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc.; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. in Atlanta seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to ensure high availability and performance across UNIX and Windows environments.

You will automate/manual tasks, support deployments, and contribute to CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud tooling in a fast-paced team. Responsibilities include design and tuning, on-call rotation, OS updates, and mentorship within the team to improve SLAs and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Degree in engineering discipline or equivalent experience in Systems Engineering / Development.
• 5+ years of experience with engineering Operating Systems as well as Software Development Engineering, Tools Automation, or similar role in platform delivery.
• Solid experience coding with PowerShell, Python, Bourne, Groovy, and others.
• Experience with automation/configuration management using Puppet, Chef, Ansible or equivalent.
• Working knowledge of git, foreman, Jenkins, or equivalent.
• Working knowledge of multi-tiered, highly available, and resilient application design.
• Working knowledge of horizontal and vertical scaling for performance and high availability.
• Ability to communicate effectively in English.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the design, planning and implementation of server solutions
• Tune and design systems infrastructure for maximum available performance
• Automation of manual tasks using scripting and application development
• Investigate and adopt new technologies/tools and implement them quickly
• Participate in a weekly on-call rotation for after-hours support in a 24/7 environment
• Evaluate, test, and integrate new OS versions, drivers, and patches
• Provide technical analysis, resolve problems, and propose solutions
• Provide support to and coordinate with Developers, Operations staff, and End-Users
• Provide education and mentorship to teammates, operations, development and QA
• Ensure streamlined application deployments as part of the SDLC
• Daily Support and Administration of Kubernetes Clusters across environments
• Collaborate with development teams to construct Helm Charts and Terraform Plans for deployments
• Provide leadership in areas of technology

Skills

Scripting

Python

PowerShell

Groovy

Git

CI/CD

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Docker

English fluency

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

Tools

Puppet

Chef

Ansible

Git

Jenkins

Foreman

Job description

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. in Atlanta seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to ensure high availability and performance across UNIX and Windows environments.

You will automate/manual tasks, support deployments, and contribute to CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud tooling in a fast-paced team. Responsibilities include design and tuning, on-call rotation, OS updates, and mentorship within the team to improve SLAs and operational excellence.