Junior Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Feedzai's Platform Engineering Compute team and contribute to the development and maintenance of the cloud platform architecture supporting our customers and internal developers. You will build and maintain Kubernetes Operators, automate cloud infrastructure and incident response, and contribute to self-healing application capabilities. This role requires experience with container technologies, CI/CD pipelines, cloud providers, and IaC practices. You will work with a talented team in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, utilizing Go or similar languages. The position offers opportunities for continuous learning and professional growth within a leading financial risk management company.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or the equivalent combination of education, experience, and training
• Programming skills in languages such as Go, Python, or similar
• Hands-on experience with Container Technologies and Orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Gitlab, or similar and GitOps tools such as FluxCD or Argo CD
• Knowledge or experience working with Cloud Providers, with a preference for AWS or GCP Cloud
• Knowledge or experience in utilizing monitoring and observability stacks like Grafana and Prometheus
• Knowledge or experience in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices and knowledge or experience in tools like Terraform and Crossplane
• Self-driven, motivated, with a strong work ethic, and a passion for creative problem-solving

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Kubernetes Operators, including deployment, monitoring and operations by the team
• Engage in development tasks using Go, or similar languages
• Automate all aspects of the cloud infrastructure and incident response
• Contribute to the self-healing capabilities of applications in our enterprise environments
• Develop playbooks associated with actionable alerts to streamline response procedures
• Container orchestration with Kubernetes
• Maintain and improve the product deployment pipeline
• Participate in incident response, root cause investigation and resolution
• Maintain and enhance our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to efficiently manage end-to-end lifecycle operations (monitoring, alerting, security, cost optimization, configuration, backup, etc.) in production environments
• Utilize your experience and problem solving skills to help prevent and investigate production issues

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Kubernetes, Cloud and programming certifications or equivalent are valued