Platform Engineer

Core Technical Requirements

Software Engineering Foundation

7+ years professional software engineering experience — strong general-purpose programming (Java and/or Go or Python), not solely scripting

Writes and reviews production-grade code for internal platform tooling — CLIs, operators, controllers, automation services — with the same rigour as application code: tests, code review, versioning

Comfortable extending or contributing to shared Spring Boot libraries and starter packs consumed by other engineering teams

Understands software design fundamentals — API design, concurrency, error handling, backward compatibility — well enough to be a credible reviewer on both infra and application pull requests

Can debug across the full stack — from a Kubernetes scheduling failure down to a Spring Boot stack trace or a Hibernate query plan

GitHub & Source Control Engineering

Deep GitHub Actions expertise — authoring reusable/composite workflows, matrix builds, self-hosted runners, caching strategies, and secure secret handling in CI

Repository governance at scale — branch protection rules, required status checks, CODEOWNERS, merge queue strategy across many repos or a monorepo

GitHub Advanced Security — secret scanning and push protection, code scanning (CodeQL), Dependabot policy and triage

GitHub Apps and fine-grained access tokens for internal automation — building bots/integrations against the GitHub API rather than relying on personal access tokens

GitHub Environments — deployment protection rules, required reviewers, and environment-scoped secrets as a promotion gate into staging/production

Organisation and team permission design — least-privilege access across engineering teams, audit logging, SSO/SAML integration

GitOps & DevOps

Production experience with GitOps tooling — ArgoCD or Flux — managing declarative, Git-driven deployments across multiple environments and clusters

Infrastructure as Code — Terraform for cloud provisioning; Helm charts / Kustomize for Kubernetes manifests

Progressive delivery — canary and blue-green rollout mechanics, automated rollback triggers tied to health signals

Secrets management integrated into pipelines — Vault, Sealed Secrets, or cloud-native secret stores

Kubernetes & Cloud Infrastructure

Kubernetes at depth — deployments, StatefulSets, ConfigMaps, Secrets, resource quotas, autoscaling (HPA/VPA), network policies

Multi-tenant cluster design — namespace isolation, per-tenant resource boundaries, workload scheduling

Cloud platform experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP) — networking, IAM, managed Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE), managed databases

Container image strategy — multi-stage Docker builds, base image hardening, registry and vulnerability scanning

Observability & Reliability

Builds and maintains observability stack — structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics (Prometheus/Grafana or equivalent)

Defines SLIs/SLOs and alerting thresholds in partnership with engineering teams

Incident response — on-call practices, runbooks, postmortems that lead to platform-level fixes, not just fire-fighting

Nice to Have

Experience migrating workloads from on-premises / JBoss-style deployments into Kubernetes

Kafka or RabbitMQ operations — cluster management, topic/queue scaling, consumer lag monitoring

Policy-as-code experience — OPA/Gatekeeper, admission controllers, compliance-as-code for regulated environments

Exposure to the financial services domain — awareness of the audit, resiliency, and change-control expectations that come with banking customers

What We Look For at This Level

You treat the platform as a product — self-service, documented, and reliable enough that application teams rarely need to escalate to you

You write platform tooling as real software — tested, versioned, code-reviewed — not one-off scripts that only you can maintain

You can move fluidly between a Terraform module, a GitHub Actions workflow, a Kubernetes manifest, and a Spring Boot stack trace without losing context

You design deployment and rollback paths that reduce customer-facing risk by default, not as an afterthought

You partner with engineering teams during design, flagging operability, security, and scaling concerns before code is written

You mentor other engineers on CI/CD and platform practices, and you're a credible voice in architecture discussions beyond just infrastructure

We are proud to offer a range of incentives to our employees worldwide. These benefits are available to everyone, regardless of grade, and reflect the values we stand for:

Flexibility: Enjoy unlimited vacation, subject to local regulations and business priorities. Benefit from hybrid working arrangements and inclusive policies such as paid time off for voting, bereavement, and sick leave.

Well‑being: Access confidential one‑to‑one support through our Employee Assistance Program, connect with our network of Wellbeing Champions and Gather Groups, and take part in monthly events and initiatives designed to help you thrive—inside and outside of work.

Health & Financial Security: Medical, life and disability insurance, retirement plans, lifestyle, and other benefits.*

Sustainability: Paid time off for volunteering and donation‑matching opportunities to support causes that matter to you.

Inclusion: Get involved in our inclusion communities, such as Count Me In, Culture@Finastra, Proud@Finastra, Disabilities@Finastra, and Women@Finastra—open to everyone who wants to participate and contribute.

Career Development: Access online learning and accredited courses through our Skills & Career Navigator tool.

Recognition: Take part in our global recognition program, Finastra Celebrates, and share your voice through regular employee surveys that help shape our culture and ways of working.

*Specific benefits may vary by location.

At Finastra, each individual is unique—bringing their own ideas, perspectives, cultural backgrounds, and experiences. We learn from one another, value what makes us different, and create an environment where everyone feels included, supported, and able to be their authentic selves.

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