Senior Payments Platform Engineer

Senior Payments Platform Engineer

Requirements

• 5+ years in AKS or Kubernetes environments.
• Bachelors degree in a related field required.
• 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.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and performance optimization skills.
• 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.

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.
• Develop custom alerts, and performance metrics to ensure system health and proactive issue resolution.
• Optimize troubleshooting and root cause analysis using observability best practices.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience working in banking, payments, or financial services is highly preferred.
• Exposure to AI/ML-driven observability tools (AppDynamics, ELK, Prometheus/Grafana).
• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio), Kubernetes operators, and container networking preferred.
• Familiarity with financial regulatory requirements like PCI DSS compliance preferred.