Lead Platform Engineer, Systems Engineering

ICE - Jacksonville, FL

Hiring: Lead Platform Engineer, Systems Engineering Company: ICE Location: Jacksonville, FL Job Posted Time: 2026-09-14 11:59:32 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : Ansible, ArgoCD, Configuration Management, Confluence, Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, GitOps, Grafana, Helm, Jaeger, Kubernetes, Linux, OpenShift, Podman, Prometheus, Red Hat, Webhooks About the job Experience: •6+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or a related discipline •Applied hands-on capability in Kubernetes in a production environment; OpenShift experience strongly preferred •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 •K8s Observability — Grafana dashboards, Prometheus alerting pipelines, distributed tracing (Tempo, Jaeger), log aggregation (Loki, Vector, Cortex), and related logging/monitoring practices Required Skills: •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 •Partner cross-functionally 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 Compensation: •$165,000 - $190,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!