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Lord, Abbett & Co. LLC · 1 day ago

Senior Platform Engineer – Kubernetes & Middleware Platforms

Jersey City, NJ

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$175K/yr - $200K/yr

15+ years exp

Lord, Abbett & Co. LLC is a leading global independent investment management company. They are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead and scale their Kubernetes container platform and middleware stack, ensuring high-availability infrastructure and seamless middleware operations while enabling multiple engineering teams to develop and deploy cloud-native applications securely.

ConsultingFinancial Services

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design and implement infrastructure abstractions and APIs that simplify deploying AI workloads using Kubernetes-native operations and GitOps patterns

Architect, deploy, and manage Kubernetes platforms (AWS EKS and Red‑Hat OpenShift) across different environments

Implement GitOps workflows with ArgoCD to manage declarative app deployments

Design and operate middleware infrastructure: Highly available Kafka clusters (mirroring, partitioning, tooling), Managed Redis Enterprise clusters (sharding, high‑availability, replication), 3Scale API Gateway development and administration

Build and manage helm charts, templating, parameterization, and versioning for both platform and middleware stacks

Enforce container security and policy governance using policies-as-code tools (e.g. OPA, Kyverno), scanning (e.g. Clair, Snyk), and automated admission controls

Implement network policies (Kubernetes NetworkPolicy / Calico) to enforce segmentation and micro‑segmentation

Configure and manage service mesh (e.g. Istio, Linkerd) for observability, traffic controls, and secure service‑to‑service communication

Conduct capacity planning, cluster sizing, resource tuning, and autoscaling strategies

Conduct architecture reviews, train engineers, and drive platform best practices across teams

Partner with SREs to define platform SLAs, uptime targets, resilience benchmarks, and alerting/monitoring

Lead incident response and root cause analysis, automating recovery workflows and improving platform resiliency

Qualification

Kubernetes platformsMiddleware infrastructureGitOps workflowsContainer securityAutomation toolsCapacity planningService meshScripting languagesAPI ManagementTroubleshooting skillsIncident responseCollaboration skills

Required

15+ years of overall engineering experience

At least 8+ years with Kubernetes platforms (EKS, OpenShift) in production

Experienced in managing streaming and caching infrastructure at scale (Kafka, Redis Enterprise Clusters)

Prior hands-on administration or development of API Management / Gateway platforms - preferably Red Hat 3Scale

Demonstrated ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploy AI workloads on Kubernetes or cloud-native platforms

Deep knowledge of DevSecOps principles, container security, governance, and compliance in enterprise environments

Strong automation experience: Helm, GitOps, ArgoCD, IaC (Terraform/AWS-CloudFormation/Ansible)

Experience configuring service mesh, network policy controls, and multi-tenancy in Kubernetes

Demonstrated expertise in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, Groovy, or equivalent; hands-on experience developing automation tooling, custom Kubernetes operators/controllers, or other platform-level integrations

Thorough understanding of core Kubernetes concepts, and observability tooling

Demonstrated experience in capacity planning, cluster sizing, and performance tuning for critical infrastructure

Strong troubleshooting skills across Kubernetes, middleware, and distributed systems; experienced in leading incident response and root cause analysis

Preferred

EKS and/or OpenShift administration certification (CKA, AWS Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator, or equivalent)

Knowledge of middleware architecture for high-throughput, low-latency messaging systems

Experience with cloud cost optimization, chargeback models

Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Splunk or similar tools/platforms)

Familiarity with CNCF ecosystem tools and emerging trends in platform engineering and cloud-native environment

Benefits

Discretionary Bonus: Role may be eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus.

Competitive total compensation

Retirement plans

Competitive health and well-being plans

Company

Lord, Abbett & Co. LLC

Glassdoor3.5

Our Vision We aspire to be the most respected asset manager in the world, admired for our people, our performance, our relationships, and our organizational agility.

Founded in 1929

New Jersey, Saint Patrick, TTO

501-1000 employees

https://www.lordabbett.com/en.html

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