Senior Payments Platform Engineer

Job Title:

Senior Payments Platform Engineer

Location:

Block 23

What youll do:

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Platform Engineer AKS to manage and optimize our core payment hub platform running on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This role will be responsible for ensuring high availability security and efficiency of the platform while driving innovation in cloudnative solutions for banking payments. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Azure cloud services AKS DevSecOps security vulnerabilities CIS hardening enterprise platform management Helm chart management Azure Container Registry (ACR) image management and AKS Cron jobs. Prior banking experience and expertise in Java Oracle MQ Kafka Postgres and NoSQL databases are highly preferred.

This position is part of a dynamic highperforming and innovative team that thrives in a fastpaced agile environment. The ideal candidate will have a passion for collaborative problemsolving cuttingedge technology and continuous improvement in managing missioncritical payment platforms.

• Manage monitor and optimize Payment hub application in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Implement best practices for scalability high availability and resilience in a financial services environment.
• Develop and manage Helm charts for application deployments and configurations.
• Oversee image management in Azure Container Registry (ACR) to ensure compliance and security.
• Develop and manage AKS Cron jobs for scheduled processing in the payments ecosystem.
• Drive DevSecOps best practices for securing applications deployed over AKS.
• Identify and remediate CIS vulnerabilities security vulnerabilities and compliance gaps in the platform.
• Desing and Support network security rolebased access control (RBAC) and encryption within AKS and cloud environments.
• Design and Support IAM policies and integrate AKS with Azure Entra ID for secure access and authentication.
• Leverage Azure cloud services for optimizing compute storage and networking resources.
• Support Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform templates.
• Manage AKS clusters CI/CD pipelines logging monitoring and autoscaling.
• Implement and maintain observability tools for AKS environments including ELK (Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana) AppDynamics and Grafana.
• Develop custom alerts and performance metrics to ensure system health and proactive issue resolution.
• Optimize troubleshooting and root cause analysis using observability best practices.
• Support and optimize core banking payment applications running on Java WebLogic IBM Liberty Oracle IBM MQ Kafka Postgres and NoSQL.
• Troubleshoot complex platformrelated issues including container orchestration database integration and messaging system performance.
• Ensure seamless application lifecycle management on AKS including rolling updates autohealing and workload scaling.
• Identify and implement automation cost optimization and performance enhancements across the platform.
• Stay updated on emerging cloudnative technologies and container security best practices to drive innovation.

What youll need:

• 5 years in AKS or Kubernetes environments.
• Bachelors degree in a related field required.
• Expertise in Azure cloud services including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Azure DevOps Azure Security and Azure Networking.
• Strong knowledge of DevSecOps CIS benchmarks security vulnerability management and regulatory compliance.
• Handson experience with Terraform Helm Ansible or other IaC tools.
• Experience in middleware and messaging platforms such as IBM MQ Kafka.
• Proficiency in relational and NoSQL databases like Oracle Postgres Cosmos DB.
• Prior experience working in banking payments or financial services is highly preferred.
• Strong analytical troubleshooting and performance optimization skills.
• Ability to lead technical initiatives automation efforts and cloud migration strategies.
• Experience in IAM and integrating AKS with Azure Entra ID for authentication and access control.
• Handson scripting experience using Python Bash or PowerShell.
• Exposure to AI/MLdriven observability tools (AppDynamics ELK Prometheus/Grafana).
• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio) Kubernetes operators and container networking preferred.
• Familiarity with financial regulatory requirements like PCI DSS compliance preferred.

Benefits youll love:
We offer all the important things youd want like competitive salaries an ownership stake in the company medical and dental insurance time off a great 401k matching program tuition assistance program an employee volunteer program and a wellness program. In addition youll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances giving you invaluable handson experience to help grow your career!

About the company:

Western Alliance Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Alliance Bank of Arizona Alliance Association Bank Bank of Nevada Bridge Bank First Independent Bank and Torrey Pines Bank are divisions of Western Alliance Bank; Member FDIC. AmeriHome Mortgage is a Western Alliance Bank company.

Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race sex color religion age nation origin marital status disability protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying please email or call. When contacting us please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.

Western Alliance Bancorporation