Engineer Principal, Platform

FIS•Denver, CO

1d•$188,840 - $321,010

About The Position

Sits within a newly acquired startup building an AI-enabled, autonomous banking platform for Tier-1 financial institutions within the banking group. The Platform Engineer builds and operates the multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure that powers the platform at five-nines availability owing GitOps delivery, observability, disaster recovery, zero-trust security, and AI-driven SRE automation. Ships directly into production environments at the world's largest banks. This role offers the autonomy, ownership, and technical depth of a startup, combined with the scale, stability, and long-term impact of FIS. Engineers in this role shape foundational banking infrastructure while operating with clear accountability, enterprise resources, and real-world production responsibility.

Requirements

Deep Kubernetes experience (EKS/GKE/AKS; operators/CRDs a bonus).
Terraform (multi-cloud).
GitOps tooling: Flux or ArgoCD.
Kafka / event streaming.
Distributed SQL databases.
Language: Go, Rust, or similar (AI-accelerated development welcome).
Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry observability stack experience.
DR, HA, and Zero-Trust architecture design and ownership.
Strong ownership mindset across the full infrastructure lifecycle.
Comfortable operating in hybrid cloud and regulated environments.
AI-native engineer: integrates LLMs and agentic workflows into daily engineering practice.

Responsibilities

Build and scale multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure (EKS/GKE/AKS) for five-nines workloads.
Architect active-active distributed systems.
Implement Terraform, Helm, and GitOps (Flux) across cloud and hybrid environments.
Own DR, failover, backup/restore, and multi-region resiliency.
Drive zero-trust security, identity, multi-tenant isolation, and cryptographic audit trails.
Build and maintain stacks using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and OpenTelemetry.
Lead AI-driven automation: auto-remediation, incident insights, and AI-based root cause analysis.
Support on-prem and air-gapped deployments and legacy integrations.