Senior Platform Engineer (AWS, K8s, IaC, Python)

PortX is a leading AI-powered data and integration company for modern banking, bringing systems together and data to life through our unified platform for modern integration, governed customer 360 data, and next-generation payments.

We're in strong growth mode, with opportunities for Senior Platform Engineer for our team, working in a high-impact environment, with a great culture that's open and rewarding, so it’s a great time to join.

In addition to a competitive basic salary, benefits include an attractive equity package, insurance (medical, dental, vision), unlimited PTO, and 401(k).

Role overview:

This position is responsible for building applications and tools to manage infrastructure and continuous deployment systems for PortX’s Kubernetes-based hosting platform in AWS. The platform provides highly available and secure microservices API hosting for financial institutions using cloud-native technologies.

Responsibilities include:

• Build and manage secure, highly-available, cloud infrastructure using Pulumi.
• Engineer new platform technologies using a variety of languages and tools.
• Support and enhance our internal platform tooling.
• Regularly update all infrastructure components to ensure platform security.
• Ensure systems meet SOC 2 compliance.
• Create and manage networking integrations with customer networks.
• Perform monitoring and performance tuning of Java, Python, Go, and TypeScript based microservice applications.
• Create documentation and diagrams.
• Evangelize Kubernetes, Docker and infrastructure best practices.
• Support development teams configuring applications to run on the infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot production issues and determine the root cause using industry standard observability tools.
• Troubleshoot networking issues using industry standard tools.
• Collaborate across a variety of technology disciplines in a fast-moving environment.

Technical skills required, include:

• Strong Troubleshooting and CodeGen AI skills (GitHub Copilot or Claude Code preferred)
• Familiarity with GitOps operating frameworks and best practices
• Common AWS services (IAM, S3, EC2, RDS, ElastiCache)
• AWS VPC networking (subnets, routing, multi-AZ)
• Kubernetes (5+ years) in production at scale) (preferably EKS)
• Docker (Dockerfile best practices, Multi-stage builds)
• Helm (including Helm chart best practices)
• Common CI systems (GitHub Actions preferred)
• Strong competency with Python
• Linux Shell scripting (5+ years)
• Knowledge and experience working with Pulumi or Terraform
• Common security best practices

You’ll be joining an amazing team with a great culture, working on high-impact projects. You’ll fit right in with our team if you have a strong sense of ownership in your work, you value excellent customer experience, and you flourish in an environment where things move quickly.