Lead Platform Engineer, Systems Engineering

Overview

Job Purpose

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.

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

Knowledge and Experience

• 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
• K8s GitOps & Release Engineering — GitHub, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Kustomize, Helm, and Git-based delivery workflows
• K8s Infrastructure Engineering — Kubernetes on bare metal, cluster networking (CNI, OVN-Kubernetes, network policy), storage and CSI drivers, and hardware-layer operations
• K8s Security & Policy Enforcement — Policy-as-code tooling (Kyverno, OPA/Gatekeeper), admission webhooks, and container security practices

Preferred Knowledge and Experience

• 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

New York Base Salary Range 

The expected base salary for this role, if located in New York, is between $165,000 - 190,000 USD. The base salary range does not include Intercontinental Exchange’s incentive compensation.  While we provide this range as general guidance, at ICE we compensate employees based on the skillset and experience of the individual. Regular full-time ICE employees are eligible for a suite of competitive employee benefits, including healthcare coverage (medical, dental and vision), a 401(k) plan, life insurance, time off, and paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

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