Job Description

Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

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 Fidelity’s 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 Fidelity’s 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.

Fidelity’s 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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Category:

Information Technology

Please be advised that Fidelity’s 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.