Sr. Platform Engineer AKS EKS

• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, frameworks, and industry trends related to payment systems and cloud computing.
• Design and implement microservices-based architecture using domain-driven design principles.
• Utilize Kubernetes for container orchestration and management, ensuring scalability, reliability, and high availability of the payment system.
• Implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting mechanisms to ensure system performance and availability .
• Develop highly resilient and highly available components for the payment system
• Conduct technology evaluations and provide recommendations for new tools, technologies, and frameworks that can enhance our payment infrastructure.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth.
• Strong Kubernetes(K8S) experience required
• 6+ years of experience in rearchitecting large-scale monolithic applications to cloud-native architectures.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• 4+ years of experience with cloud computing platforms with AWS and/or Azure including experience with serverless architectures, containers, and orchestration
• experience with payment industry standards, protocols, and security best practices
• knowledge of load balancing algorithms (will be asked in interview)
• must have worked in an AWS environment, working heavily with Kubernetes (EKS)/(AKS)
• must know security best practices for containers and clusters
• must know terraform well
• strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

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