Senior Platform Engineer

About the role

The Senior Platform Engineer will design, build and operate highly available Kubernetes platforms that support critical banking workloads. This role combines deep technical expertise with regulatory awareness to deliver reliable, secure, and cost‑effective infrastructure.

Key responsibilities

• Design, deploy and maintain on‑premise and cloud Kubernetes clusters, including container runtimes, service meshes and ingress controllers.
• Develop and operate CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD) with automated testing, security scanning and deployment.
• Define and implement Infrastructure‑as‑Code using Terraform and Ansible, maintaining reusable modules and version‑control standards.
• Own observability strategy – metrics, logging, tracing and synthetic monitoring – and act as Incident Commander for platform‑layer outages.
• Lead the hybrid‑cloud strategy, evaluate Cambodian cloud providers for NBC compliance, and produce annual capex/opex forecasts.

Required profile

• 6‑8 years of progressive experience in platform engineering, SRE or DevOps, with at least 3 years managing production‑scale Kubernetes (100+ nodes).
• Proven ability to lead technical teams or act as a tech lead on complex, multi‑stakeholder initiatives.
• Experience in regulated environments such as banking, fintech or insurance, with knowledge of NBC, PCI DSS or ISO 27001 compliance.
• Strong communication, stakeholder engagement and the ability to travel occasionally for training.

Required skills

• Kubernetes (CKA certified)
• AWS, GCP or Azure (associate or professional level)
• Terraform
• Ansible
• GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD
• Helm chart development