Platform Engineer II - AWS, Kubernetes & Golang

• Multi-region OpenShift platform operations - Manage at scale 25+ OpenShift clusters across 6 AWS regions, ensuring reliability, security, and performance for payment services
• Infrastructure as Code & GitOps - Design and maintain declarative infrastructure using Kubernetes manifests
• Kubernetes Operators & automation - Build or integrate operators that simplify infrastructure management, reduce toil, and enable consumer teams to self-serve without platform team bottlenecks.
• Observability & platform health - Own monitoring, alerting, and logging across the platform.
• Container Security & compliance - Implement and maintain security controls to support payment services and regulatory requirements.
• Incident response & troubleshooting - Debug platform issues across our fleet

• A bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, computer science or other related discipline plus 5+ years of experience or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience
• Solid experience and comfortable managing with container orchestration technologies in production (eg: RedHat OpenShift, Kubernetes)
• Strong experience with containers and immutable infrastructure
• Strong experience of working in Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Have knowledge of or demonstrable experience in programming languages (such as Python, Golang)
• Experience with GitOps deployment tools such as argoCD or Flux
• Experience in continuous integration and delivery tooling (eg: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform)

It’s a bonus if you have

• Experience of working in a global online business, ideally providing financial trades or transfers; of particular interest are payment companies, merchant providers, financial trading platforms and online gaming experience
• Knowledge of security aspects of financial trading/monetary transfer systems; including but not limited to PCI Compliance, DDoS prevention, IDS, Container Security and regulatory audit requirements
• Experience with running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes (architecture, components, producers, consumers, deployment, configuration, optimization, ZooKeeper, brokers etc)
• Experience with running Persistence services on Kubernetes (redis etc)
• Good knowledge of standard internet protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, HTTP and relevant troubleshooting tools and knowledge of Linux based operating systems

Worldpay is dedicated to offering individuals rewarding career opportunities and competitive compensation. For this full-time position, the good faith estimated annual salary range upon hire is $91,900.00-$138,700.00. This range reflects what we reasonably expect to offer based on the role’s responsibilities, level, and geographic location. The actual starting salary will be determined by a candidate’s experience, job-related skills, and relevant education or training. Please note that changes in work location may impact the final offered salary. We encourage you to consult with your recruiter to confirm the budget for your location and to better understand the applicable pay scale.

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a Platform Engineer II to join our ever-evolving GKOP Platform run by Atlas team and help us unleash the potential of every business., Our inclusive and global teams win together every day. We’re proud to have the best minds in the industry, who you can learn from as you grow your career. The people, the energy, the connections - it’s unmatched. Come and be part of an ever-evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders.

Within our “Platform Team” at Worldpay, we are building, releasing and operating technology products and services to support an elastically scalable and fault tolerant platform running Kubernetes with OpenShift at scale.

In addition, we are exploring the evolution of containerized runtimes and looking to take advantage of emerging technology around service mesh and serverless. Apart from this we get involved in persistence related topics like Kafka.

What makes a Globalpayer?

Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team. We’re curious and innovative - always finding better ways to deliver impact. We empower each other to make decisions, and it’s our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do.