Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer: Core

Jack Henry is hiring a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer for its Digital Cloud Infrastructure team. The role builds and operates core systems and deployment pipelines in Google Cloud Platform, enabling reliable, secure infrastructure and application services. It also partners with platform and product engineering teams to improve service delivery and support financial technology capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Plan, design, and build the core infrastructure systems used by Jack Henry’s development and engineering teams
• Debug critical production infrastructure issues impacting multiple services or sites, performing deep root‑cause analysis to prevent recurrence
• Design and operate systems with a strong focus on site health and reliability, enabling automated workload movement and failure avoidance
• Use software development skills (e.g., Go, Python) to build and enhance platform solutions that improve developer velocity and accelerate feature delivery
• Act as a proactive collaborator and emerging technical leader, promoting engineering best practices and guiding peers in areas such as design and coding standards
• Partner closely with engineering teams to understand priorities and evolving needs, ensuring platform solutions keep pace with product development
• Take ownership of complex technical challenges and drive them to successful completion
• May perform other job duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Minimum of 6 years of experience in software development, DevOps, or Infrastructure as Code
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing applications in Kubernetes
• Practical experience in declarative service infrastructure environments, specifically using Terraform
• Experience in an AWS, Azure, and/or GCP cloud environment
• Production Programming Experience in Go or Python is required
• Experience designing and implementing monitoring, logging, and tracing solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry)
• Deep familiarity with operating in a Unix/Linux shell
• This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship and support. Please do not apply if, at any time, you will need immigration support now or in the future (i.e., H-1B, PERM)
• Proficiency building and scaling custom Kubernetes controllers and operators
• Experience managing production environments in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Experience with Service Mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd)
• Experience with implementing and scaling relational databases, in-memory data structure stores, and streaming data pipelines (e.g., AlloyDB, Memorystore, Pub/Sub)
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum processes and operating within various methods of implementation