Senior/Staff Platform Engineer

ROLE SUMMARY Sits within a newly acquired startup building an AI-enabled, autonomous banking platform for Tier-1 financial institutions within the banking group. The Platform Engineer builds and operates the multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure that powers the platform at five-nines availability, owning GitOps delivery, observability, disaster recovery, zero-trust security, and AI-driven SRE automation. Ships directly into production environments at the world's largest banks.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Infrastructure & Architecture Infrastructure: Build and scale multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure (EKS/GKE/AKS) for five-nines workloads. Architecture: Architect active-active distributed systems. GitOps: Implement Terraform, Helm, and GitOps (Flux) across cloud and hybrid environments.

Reliability & Security Resiliency: Own DR, failover, backup/restore, and multi-region resiliency. Security: Drive zero-trust security, identity, multi-tenant isolation, and cryptographic audit trails. Observability: Build and maintain stacks using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and OpenTelemetry.

AI & Operations AI-SRE: Lead AI-driven automation: auto-remediation, incident insights, and AI-based root cause analysis. Deployment: Support on-prem and air-gapped deployments and legacy integrations. Contribute to team excellence through knowledge sharing, mentoring, and coaching, helping to develop technical capability and promote engineering best practices across the organization REQUIRED EXPERIENCE & CA