AI Platform Engineer

Axos Bank

Target Range:

$130000.00 /Yr. - $150000.00 /Yr

Actual starting pay will vary based on factors including but not limited to geographic location experience skills specialty and education.

Eligible for an Annual Discretionary Cash Bonus Target: 10%

Eligible for an Annual Discretionary Restricted Stock Units Bonus Target: 10%

These discretionary target bonuses may be awarded semi-annually based upon your achievement of performance goals and targets.

About This Job

Axos Bank is hiring an AI Platform Engineer to engineer operate and help govern the platforms and infrastructure that power the banks AI and automation capabilities. This is a hands-on senior individual-contributor role spanning platform engineering the supporting data and compute tier reliability and platform governance applied across a growing portfolio of enterprise AI and automation platforms rather than any single product.

The successful candidate is platform- and infrastructure-focused: equally comfortable deploying and hardening an enterprise platform tuning a PostgreSQL cluster or Redis tier and establishing the engineering standards and controls the platform estate runs under. The role ensures that the banks AI and automation platforms are reliable performant secure and well-governed as adoption scales across lines of business.

This is the hands-on engineering seat behind our AI and automation platforms the person who deploys hardens scales and governs the platforms and the infrastructure they run on. The role offers deep technical ownership of a fast-growing platform footprint close partnership with senior architects in Infrastructure Security and Identity and a central part in scaling the banks Automation Center of Excellence.

• Deploy configure upgrade and operate the banks portfolio of enterprise AI and automation platforms across Dev/QA/UAT/Prod including high-availability topology scaling version and patch management and full platform lifecycle
• Tune platforms for performance capacity and cost as adoption grows; plan and execute upgrades and migrations with minimal service impact
• Integrate platforms with enterprise identity (Entra ID/OIDC) secrets management and source control; manage platform-level RBAC and credential lifecycle
• Evaluate and onboard new AI and automation platform capabilities into the supported estate

• Engineer and operate the PostgreSQL tier supporting the platform estate replication high availability and automated failover point-in-time recovery connection pooling and performance/query tuning
• Engineer and operate the Redis tier persistence configuration memory and eviction policy queue durability and high availability (Sentinel or Cluster)
• Engineer the Linux hosts and Docker/Kubernetes containers running the platforms hardening patching capacity and performance tuning in partnership with Infrastructure
• Design implement and validate HA/DR for the platform data tier against defined RTO/RPO failover behavior backup validation and recurring recovery exercises

• Instrument the platforms and their infrastructure for service health replication/failover events performance and capacity using the enterprise observability stack
• Build and maintain dashboards alerts and runbooks; lead incident response and root-cause analysis for platform and data-tier events

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and promotion workflows for platform artifacts and configuration across environments
• Manage infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent) for the platform data and compute tier and automate routine platform operations

• Define document and enforce platform engineering standards hardening baselines RBAC models and configuration governance across the platform estate
• Partner with InfoSec Infrastructure Network and Identity on platform security operations access reviews key/secret rotation via PAM and control attestation
• Operate within and contribute to the Automation CoE governance framework; support internal audit vendor risk and regulatory examination for the platforms in scope
• Document designs runbooks and standard operating procedures and mentor junior engineers

• 5 years of platform or infrastructure engineering experience in an enterprise environment with a strong hands-on (not primarily managerial) track record
• Hands-on PostgreSQL administration replication high availability backup/restore point-in-time recovery connection pooling and performance/query tuning
• Hands-on Redis operational experience Sentinel or Cluster persistence configuration eviction policy and queue/pub-sub workloads
• Strong Linux administration plus Docker and containerized application operations (Kubernetes a plus)
• Experience deploying operating and hardening enterprise platforms such as workflow automation integration/iPaaS data or other application platforms across multiple environments
• Strong scripting/coding proficiency in Python or JavaScript/TypeScript
• Experience integrating platforms with Entra ID (or Azure AD) for SSO/OIDC RBAC and group-based access
• Experience with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent)
• Experience with platform governance security operations and change management in a regulated environment (financial services healthcare or similar) including audit support
• Strong written communication for runbooks design documents and standard operating procedures

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About Axos

Born digital-first Axos delivers financial tools and services that allow individuals small businesses and companies to access and manage their money how when and where they want. Were a diverse team of dynamic insightful and independent innovators who are excited to provide technology-driven solutions that offer unbeatable value to our customers.

Axos Financial is our holding company and is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol AX (NYSE: AX).

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Pre-Employment Background Check and Drug Test:

All offers are contingent upon the candidate successfully passing a credit check criminal background check and pre-employment drug screening which includes screening for marijuana. Axos Bank is a federally regulated banking institution. At the federal level marijuana is an illegal schedule 1 drug; therefore we will not employ any person who tests positive for marijuana regardless of state legalization.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Axos is an Equal Opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race religious creed color sex (including pregnancy breast feeding and related medical conditions) gender gender identity gender expression sexual orientation national origin ancestry citizenship status military and veteran status marital status age protected medical condition genetic information physical disability mental disability or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal state and local laws.

Job Functions and Work Environment:

While performing the duties of this position the employee is required to sit for extended periods of time. Manual dexterity and coordination are required while operating standard office equipment such as computer keyboard and mouse calculator telephone copiers etc.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee may encounter while performing the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

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