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POSITION: Senior AKS Platform Engineer LOCATION: Westerville, Ohio 43082 (Hybrid: 4-Days Onsite/Week) SALARY RANGE: $152,000 - $160,000 base salary range MISC COMPENSATION: Annual Bonus, Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO, 401(k), Health Savings Account, Disability & Life Insurance, Tuition Assistance, LTI Plan, Employee Wellness EMPLOYMENT TERMS: Direct-Hire/Permanent JOB SUMMARY: We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Platform Engineer (AKS) to manage and optimize our core payment hub platform running on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This role will be responsible for ensuring high availability, security, and efficiency of the platform while driving innovation in cloud-native solutions for banking payments. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Azure cloud services, AKS, DevSecOps, security vulnerabilities, CIS hardening, enterprise platform management, Helm chart management, Azure Container Registry (ACR) image management, and AKS Cron jobs. Prior banking experience and expertise in Java, Oracle, MQ, Kafka, Postgres, and NoSQL databases are highly preferred. Technical Responsibilities: • Manage, monitor, and optimize Payment hub application in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). • Implement best practices for scalability, high availability, and resilience in a financial services environment. • Develop and manage Helm charts for application deployments and configurations. • Oversee image management in Azure Container Registry (ACR) to ensure compliance and security. • Develop and manage AKS Cron jobs for scheduled processing in the payments ecosystem. • Drive DevSecOps best practices for securing applications deployed over AKS. • Identify and remediate CIS vulnerabilities, security vulnerabilities, and compliance gaps in the platform. • Design and support network security, role-based access control (RBAC), and encryption within AKS and cloud environments. • Design and Support IAM policies and integrate AKS with Azure Entra ID for secure access and authentication. • Leverage Azure cloud services for optimizing compute, storage, and networking resources. • Support Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform templates. • Manage AKS clusters, CI/CD pipelines, logging, monitoring, and autoscaling. • Implement and maintain observability tools for AKS environments, including ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), AppDynamics, and Grafana. • Support and optimize core banking payment applications running on Java, WebLogic, IBM Liberty, Oracle, IBM MQ, Kafka, Postgres, and NoSQL. • Troubleshoot complex platform-related issues, including container orchestration, database integration, and messaging system performance. • Ensure seamless application lifecycle management on AKS, including rolling updates, auto-healing, and workload scaling. • Identify and implement automation, cost optimization, and performance enhancements across the platform. • Stay updated on emerging cloud-native technologies and container security best practices to drive innovation. REQUIRED EXPERIENCE: • 7+ years in AKS/Kubernetes environments (on the application side, not only infrastructure). • Expertise in Azure cloud services, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure DevOps, Azure Security, and Azure Networking. • Strong knowledge of DevSecOps, CIS benchmarks, security vulnerability management, and regulatory compliance. • Hands-on experience with Terraform, Helm, Ansible, or other IaC tools. • Experience in middleware and messaging platforms such as IBM MQ, Kafka. • Proficiency in relational and NoSQL databases like Oracle, Postgres, Cosmos DB. • Ability to lead technical initiatives, automation efforts, and cloud migration strategies. • Experience in IAM and integrating AKS with Azure Entra ID for authentication and access control. • Hands-on scripting experience using Python, Bash, or PowerShell. • Exposure to AI/ML-driven observability tools (AppDynamics, ELK, Prometheus/Grafana). • Bachelors degree in a related field required. NICE TO HAVE: • Experience with Enterprise Payments Platform (EPP) from Fiserv is strongly preferred. • Prior experience working in banking, payments, or financial services is highly preferred. • Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio), Kubernetes operators, and container networking preferred. • Familiarity with financial regulatory requirements like PCI DSS compliance preferred. • Experience building and supporting a platform through go-live. Compensation: $152,000 - $160,000 Salary Range Exact compensation may vary based on several factors, including skills, experience, and education. Benefits include: -Annual bonus -Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits -401(k) program -Health savings account -Tuition assistance program -LTI Plan -Employee wellness program

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