Senior Platform Engineer - Payrix

About this role

Job Description Ready to take your career global ?    

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer – Payrix to join our ever-evolving Payrix platform engineering team and help shape the future of global commerce .    

What you’ll own

Payrix is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help design, build, operate , and improve the cloud-native platform that Payrix engineering teams use to deliver payments capabilities safely , and at scale. This role sits inside the Payrix Platform Engineering team, which owns and enables the shared infrastructure, CI/CD, GitHub governance, infrastructure-as-code, security tooling, and developer experience patterns that Payrix services depend on across regulated PCI-DSS and SOC 2 environments within the Worldpay / Global Payments ecosystem.  

Platform Engineering & Developer Enablement  

• Build and improve Payrix’s internal platform capabilities so engineering teams can provision, deploy, observe , and operate services through clear, self-service patterns.  

• Define and maintain golden paths for new and existing Payrix services, including EKS, infrastructure-as-code, GitHub Actions, observability, tagging, secrets, access, and disaster recovery readiness.  

• Reduce friction and cognitive load for service teams by turning repeated manual steps into documented, automated, reusable workflows.  

• Create platform documentation, runbooks, examples, and implementation guidance in Confluence and code repositories so knowledge is searchable and sustainable.  

• Partner with engineering teams as an enabling platform team: teach, pair, consult, and build with teams while leaving long-term service ownership clear.  

Cloud Infrastructure, EKS & Kubernetes  

• Design, implement, and operate AWS and EKS platform foundations across Payrix environments, including cluster patterns, Kubernetes access guidance, cluster-level integrations, add-ons, node groups, ingress, certificates, secrets, runners, and shared operational guidance.  

• Contribute to multi-region and disaster recovery platform foundations, including EKS patterns, infrastructure readiness, environment consistency, and validation support.  

• Help modernize legacy and lower-environment deployment paths by enabling the move from Jenkins-based flows to GitHub Actions and standardized cloud-native delivery patterns.  

• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and platform issues across AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, networking, access, and runtime layers.  

Infrastructure as Code & Automation  

• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, Terraform Cloud, Pulumi, and supporting automation.  

• Help evolve Payrix’s IaC standards, module patterns, repository structure, stack organization, migration strategy, and governance-as-code practices.  

• Support active platform migrations, including Pulumi Cloud to S3 backend work and Terraform / Terraform Cloud patterns for non-data Payrix workloads.  

• Design automation that is repeatable, auditable, secure, and compatible with Payrix, Worldpay, and Global Payments operating requirements.  

CI/CD, GitHub Governance & Engineering Tooling  

• Improve engineering velocity and reliability through GitHub Actions, deployment automation, branch protection, repository standards, custom repository properties, service account guidance, and developer tooling improvements.  

• Partner with service teams to establish clear workflow ownership: Platform owns the enablement patterns and shared infrastructure; service teams own their application deployment workflows after handoff.  

• Support Payrix GitHub organization governance, access standardization, and repository hygiene in alignment with Entra / MyAccess / SCIM and Worldpay standards.  

• Use Jira and Confluence consistently so platform work, decisions, and operational knowledge remain visible and durable.  

Security, Compliance & Reliability  

• Build platform capabilities that satisfy PCI-DSS, SOC 2, data protection, and Worldpay landing zone expectations.  

• Support Snyk onboarding, project organization, policy and tagging conventions, and alert-routing standards while partnering with application teams on remediation ownership.  

• Contribute to observability, resiliency, performance, tagging, and cost-visibility patterns for platform-owned AWS resources.  

• Help clarify operational boundaries with SRE, Security, Identity, IX / FinOps, and mission teams through documented ownership, support paths, and escalation models.  

Technical Leadership & High-Impact Work  

• Act as a technical force multiplier: lead design discussions, write implementation plans, review infrastructure and application changes, mentor engineers, and unblock teams.  

• Step into ambiguous or cross-cutting problem spaces and drive them toward clear architecture, delivery plans, ownership, and documentation.  

• Contribute to platform roadmap execution across initiatives such as AWS account migration, disaster recovery, EKS standardization, lower-environment deployment modernization, Pulumi / Terraform evolution, Snyk enablement, GitHub governance, and Worldpay integration.  

• Balance architectural thinking with practical hands-on delivery; this role is not purely advisory.  

What you’ll bring      

• Senior-level experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, infrastructure engineering, or a similar hands-on role.  

• 5+ years' overall experience with cloud infrastructure (DevOps, SRE and/or Platform Engineering)  

• Strong production experience with AWS and cloud-native infrastructure.  

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, preferably Amazon EKS, including cluster operations, access patterns, add-ons, ingress, secrets, workload deployment, and troubleshooting.  

• Strong infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform, Pulumi, or similar tools.  

• Experience designing and improving CI

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