Lead Engineer, Systems Engineering

Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc.•Atlanta, GA

1d•$149,400 - $180,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Kubernetes Platform Engineering (KPE) team builds and operates ICE's internal container orchestration platform powered by Red Hat OpenShift. KPE Features, the Solutions Engineering sub-team, serves as the primary interface between the platform and its consumers across ICE's various business units. We are looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to join KPE Features. In this role, you will own and drive platform capabilities that enable development teams to deploy and operate workloads at enterprise scale. You’ll work across the full platform stack from GitOps pipelines and policy enforcement to observability infrastructure, while providing technical leadership and mentorship to others on the team.

Requirements

6+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or a related discipline
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in a production environment; OpenShift experience strongly preferred
Experience with Kubernetes configuration and templating tools such as Kustomize or Helm
Comfort operating in Linux environments and working with YAML-heavy configuration management
Strong communication skills. This team writes documentation and communicates changes to a broad consumer base
Deep proficiency in multiple platform disciplines: K8s Observability — Grafana dashboards, Prometheus alerting pipelines, distributed tracing (Tempo, Jaeger), log aggregation (Loki, Vector, Cortex), and related logging/monitoring practices
Deep proficiency in multiple platform disciplines: K8s GitOps & Release Engineering — GitHub, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Kustomize, Helm, and Git-based delivery workflows
Deep proficiency in multiple platform disciplines: K8s Infrastructure Engineering — Kubernetes on bare metal, cluster networking (CNI, OVN-Kubernetes, network policy), storage and CSI drivers, and hardware-layer operations
Deep proficiency in multiple platform disciplines: K8s Security & Policy Enforcement — Policy-as-code tooling (Kyverno, OPA/Gatekeeper), admission webhooks, and container security practices

Nice To Haves

Red Hat OpenShift Certified Administrator (EX280) or equivalent certification
Experience supporting internal platform consumers or operating in a shared-services model
Ansible and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP)
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM)
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security (ACS)
Experience with HyperShift or OpenShift Hosted Control Planes strongly preferred
Podman and container image build/management workflows
Experience developing custom Kubernetes operators

Responsibilities

Own and deliver platform features and enhancements, driving work from design through deployment and documentation
Lead onboarding of new teams and workloads onto the platform via self-service and GitOps-based provisioning workflows
Maintain and evolve ArgoCD-based GitOps pipelines and Kustomize overlay configurations across multiple clusters
Implement and tune Kyverno admission control policies to enforce security and operational standards across the platform
Build and maintain observability tooling, including Grafana dashboards, Tempo distributed tracing, and alerting
Collaborate with KPE-Infrastructure and KPE-Enablement sub-teams on cluster lifecycle events, upgrades, and cross-cutting platform concerns
Engage with platform consumers and stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions
Own and maintain platform documentation, runbooks, and internal knowledge bases on Confluence
Participate in 2nd or 3rd level support for on-call rotation