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**Senior Platform Engineer (Cloud / Kubernetes / Java)** Our team seeks a **Senior Platform Engineer** with 5+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience to build, automate, and operate large-scale, event-driven platforms. You'll apply diverse technologies, such as AWS or Azure, Java Spring Boot, CI/CD, IAC (Terraform/CloudFormation), and Kubernetes, to deliver robust, self-service infrastructure. Your strong expertise in microservices, containerization, and cloud platforms is essential.
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Senior Platform Engineer (Cloud / Kubernetes / Java)
The Role
If you are an experienced hands-on Senior Platform Engineer with Cloud deployment and DevOps (AWS or Azure, JAVA Spring Boot, CI/CD, IAC such as Terraform/ CloudFormation, and Kubernetes along with a passion for designing and operating large-scale, cloud-native infrastructure using cutting-edge technologies, looking for a collaborative team environment where you will have a wealth of opportunities to innovate and learn, a career in Platform Engineering in Enterprise Technology may be right for you!
The Platform Engineering group within Fidelitys Enterprise Technology organization is seeking a Senior Full Stack Platform Engineer to build, automate, and operate large-scale event-driven platforms. In this role, you will apply a variety of technologies to deliver robust, self-service infrastructure and deployment pipelines. This position is a critical element to delivering Fidelitys promise of creating the best customer experiences in financial services.\
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
- Bachelor or Master Degree in a technology-related field (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science, etc.)
- 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating production Kubernetes clusters (self-managed or managed services such as EKS, AKS, GKE).
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes internals: workload scheduling, RBAC, network policies, Helm / Kustomize, Operators, and cluster autoscaling.
- Must have 3+ years of experience developing microservices with Java and Spring Boot.
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture, REST APIs, and event-driven design patterns.
- Experience containerizing and deploying Java applications to Kubernetes, including JVM tuning for container environments.
- Familiarity with build tooling (Maven, Gradle) and code quality practices (unit/integration testing, static analysis).
- Strong experience with DevOps practices and tooling: CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD / Flux GitOps), Infrastructure as Code / IAC (Terraform or CloudFormation, Ansible), and container image management (Docker, container registries).
- Proven ability to build and maintain self-service developer platforms and golden-path templates on Kubernetes.
- 2+ years of experience operating workloads on Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including networking, IAM, and cost optimization.
- Strong knowledge of observability: metrics (Prometheus/Grafana), logging (ELK / OpenSearch), and distributed tracing.
- Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) and API gateway patterns.
- Solid experience in Agile methodologies (Kanban and SCRUM).
- Strong technical design and analysis skills; ability to deal with ambiguity and work in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with strong collaboration skills across multiple teams.
Bonus / Good to Have Skills:
- Kafka & Event Streaming: Experience with Apache Kafka: topic design, consumer groups, offset management, and schema evolution (Avro / Protobuf with Schema Registry).
- Familiarity with Kafka deployment and operations on Kubernetes (Strimzi Operator or Confluent Platform).
- Exposure to stream processing frameworks such as Kafka Streams, Apache Flink, or Spark Structured Streaming.
- Node, TypeScript
The Team
The Platform Engineering team within Enterprise Data & Artificial Intelligence business unit is responsible for assisting in the governance, design and delivery of applications utilizing the Event Streaming and Message Queueing platforms. Our vision is to enhance and streamline the onboarding experience while ensuring the highest quality of application readiness for our users.
Fidelitys Onsite Working Model
Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles. Currently, some roles and locations require 100% onsite presence, while others require less. Onsite expectations are likely to evolve as the rollout continues. This transition does not apply to fully remote roles.
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Information TechnologyPlease be advised that Fidelitys business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.
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Benefits that balance life and work
From our fully paid parent leave to our on-site health and wellness centers, our benefits support the belief that more balance you have, the better you can achieve your goals.
Company overview
Company overview
At Fidelity, we are passionate about making our financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We are a privately held company that places a high degree of value in creating and nurturing a work environment that attracts the best talent and reflects our commitment to our associates. We are proud of our diverse and inclusive workplace where we respect and value our associates for their unique perspectives and experience.
Reasonable accommodations
Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation contact the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations@fmr.com, or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 3.
Equal opportunity employer
Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop, and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.
Applicant screening
At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.
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