Platform Engineer

Job Title: Payments Platform Engineer

Location:Hyderabad, Work from office

Experience Required:8+Years

Role Overview

We are seeking a Payments Platform Engineer to build and support mission-critical payment systems within a highly regulated enterprise banking environment. This role involves designing secure, scalable, and compliant platforms that integrate modern cloud-native technologies with traditional banking infrastructure.

You will play a key role in ensuring high availability, transaction integrity, regulatory compliance, and operational resilience across payment platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain enterprise-grade payment platforms supporting high-volume, low-latency transactions
• Architect solutions that integrate modern microservices with legacy systems (e.g., core banking, WAS-based applications)
• Build and manage secure cloud infrastructure (AWS) aligned with enterprise governance standards
• Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform with strong controls, auditability, and versioning
• Manage containerized workloads using Kubernetes in regulated environments
• Automate provisioning, configuration, and patching using Ansible
• Implement and support messaging systems (MQ) for guaranteed delivery and transactional integrity
• Develop and maintain event-driven architectures (Kafka, enterprise event buses, etc.)
• Administer and support WebSphere Application Server (WAS) and middleware components
• Ensure compliance with banking regulations and security standards (PCI-DSS, SOX, etc.)
• Implement resilience patterns (failover, retries, circuit breakers, disaster recovery)
• Monitor systems using enterprise observability tools and ensure SLA adherence
• Participate in production support, incident management, and root cause analysis (RCA)
• Collaborate with risk, audit, and security teams to meet compliance requirements

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 58 years of experience in enterprise platforms, banking, or financial services
• Strong understanding of payment systems (ACH, Wire/SWIFT)

Hands-on experience with:

• Terraform (Infrastructure as Code in controlled environments)
• Kubernetes (enterprise-grade clusters)
• Ansible (configuration and patch automation)
• Code Deploy (AWS)

Experience with enterprise messaging systems:

• IBM MQ (preferred)
• Kafka
• Strong experience with WebSphere Application Server (WAS) or similar middleware
• Solid knowledge of event-driven and distributed architectures
• Proficiency in Python / Go / Shell scripting
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines in regulated environments
• Strong Linux/Unix administration skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in banking or payments domain (often mandatory)
• Understanding of regulatory and compliance frameworks:
• PCI-DSS
• SOX
• Data privacy regulations
• Experience working with legacy-modern hybrid architectures
• Exposure to API gateways, service mesh, and enterprise integration patterns
• Knowledge of HA/DR strategies across multi-region deployments
• Certifications in cloud platforms or Kubernetes

Key Competencies

• Strong focus on security, compliance, and auditability
• Ability to operate in highly regulated, process-driven environments
• Excellent troubleshooting skills in complex distributed systems
• Strong documentation and change management discipline
• Effective collaboration with cross-functional teams (risk, audit, infra, app teams)

Nice to Have

• Experience with payment gateways, fraud systems, or reconciliation platforms
• Familiarity with mainframe integrations or core banking systems
• Exposure to SRE practices (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets)
• Experience handling production incidents in 24x7 environments