What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr DevOps Engineer position at Verifone?
For more than 30 years Verifone has established a remarkable record of leadership in the electronic payment technology industry. Verifone has one of the leading electronic payment solutions brands and is one of the largest providers of electronic payment systems worldwide.
Verifone has a diverse, dynamic and fast paced work environment in which employees are focused on results and have opportunities to excel. We take pride in the fact that we work with leading retailers, merchants, banks, and third party partners to invent and deliver innovative payments solution around the world. We strive for excellence in our products and services, and are obsessed with customer happiness. Across the globe, Verifone employees are leading the payments industry through experience, innovation, and an ambitious spirit. Whether it’s developing the next platform of secure payment systems or searching for new ways to bring electronic payments to new markets, the team at Verifone is dedicated to the success of our customers, partners and investors. It is this passion for innovation that drives each one of our employees for personal and professional success.
What's exciting about the role
This position works with multiple Application Support teams focused on supporting and maintaining applications within payment environments. The primary task for this position involves designing and implementing automation processes that support the integration, deployment, and monitoring of critical applications within multiple payment gateway solutions that process billions of transactions annually.
Responsibilities
- Support the design and deployment of applications and tooling to support Verifone’s evolution from traditional Application Support and Development teams to scalable and modernized Platform and Software Engineering functions.
- Manage CI/CD pipelines with Verifone’s Software Engineering Teams and support the streamlining of software development lifecycle processes.
- Demonstrate an ‘automate-first’ mindset, leading initiatives to automate manual maintenance and repeatable tasks and critical business requests in addition to environment deployment.
- Recommend, design and execute optimizations to improve the observability, performance and overall reliability of Verifone’s payment platforms.
- Develop and maintain monitoring and logging solutions to ensure visibility into application performance and security.
- Advocate DevOps culture, mentoring peers within Application Support Teams.
- Create and maintain technical documentation to support the deployment of DevOps fundamentals driven throughout our regions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (DevOps, Development, Operations) to ensure seamless deployment of new features and services.
Skills and experience we desire
- 5 years of experience in DevOps/Platform Engineering within production environments.
- Extensive, hands-on expertise in DevOps tools, concepts, and build/release processes.
- In-depth knowledge of Linux and Windows systems administration.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated success in implementing large-scale CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.
- Significant experience in providing on-call support.
- Advanced proficiency in operating, configuring, and optimizing enterprise monitoring systems such as ELK, New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.
- Strong familiarity with Kubernetes.
- Proficient programming/scripting skills in modern languages like Python, Go, or Rust.
- Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) and Configuration Management (CM).
- Thorough awareness of release and deployment best practices, SDLC, and security best practices.
- Knowledgeable in private and public cloud networking fundamentals.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
Bonus points for
- Experience working within financial services industry, particularly exposure to payment solutions
- Knowledge of PCI-DSS standards and regulations
- Experience in application Development
- Knowledge of PKI infrastructure and certificates
- Experience of Hardware Security Modules (HSMs)
Our commitment
Verifone is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Verifone is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.