Apex Fintech Solutions · 1 hour ago
Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer
Austin, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
5+ years expApex Fintech Solutions is a company focused on innovation in digital wealth management. The Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer will drive the full lifecycle management of Kubernetes clusters, ensuring reliability, security, and performance through automation and best practices while collaborating with various teams to support application deployments.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Tooling Development: Build and enhance automation tools and libraries for generating Kubernetes manifests, eliminating manual errors and improving deployment efficiency
Cluster Management: Deploy, configure, and maintain Kubernetes clusters and supporting infrastructure, ensuring high availability, security, and performance
Monitoring & Troubleshooting: Set up and manage monitoring and alerting systems (Datadog), proactively identify issues, and resolve incidents quickly
Security & Compliance: Implement best practices, conduct regular audits, and ensure compliance with relevant industry standards and regulations
Documentation: Maintain clear and comprehensive documentation of configurations, procedures, and best practices, and provide training to other teams on platform tools, usage and best practices
Collaboration: Work closely with application teams to streamline and support Kubernetes-based deployments, and partner with other platform teams to solve infrastructure challenges and develop robust solutions
Continuous Improvement: Stay current with cloud-native technologies; proactively improve existing code, processes, and systems, and advocate for enhancements to processes and platform architecture
On-Call Support: Participate in an on-call rotation to respond to and resolve production incidents, maintaining system reliability and minimizing downtime
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (or work equivalent experience) required
5+ years of software development experience (Go, Java, Python, etc.)
2+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience (GKE, EKS, RKE, etc.)
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and concepts (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi)
Experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, FluxCD), and GitOps practices
Proficient in deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters on cloud platforms (Google Cloud, AWS, Azure) and on-premises environments
Solid understanding of container technologies (Docker, ContainerD, etc.) and cloud-native, microservice architectures
Solid Linux system administration skills
Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Benefits
Healthcare benefits (medical, dental and vision, EAP)
Competitive PTO
401k match
Parental leave
HSA contribution match
Paid subscription to the Calm app
Generous external learning and tuition reimbursement benefits
Hybrid work schedule
Company
Apex Fintech Solutions
Apex Fintech Solutions provides the tools and services that enable hundreds of clients to launch, scale, and support digital investing for tens of millions of end investors.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Andrew Lientz (he/him)
Chief Technology Officer
Frank Tiemann
CTO
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