Senior DevOps Engineer

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.

Key Responsibilities:

• Cloud Infrastructure Management: Deploying, configuring, and managing GCP resources like Compute Engine instances, virtual networks, storage, and other cloud services.
• Linux Server Administration: Installing, configuring, and maintaining Linux servers, including web servers, application servers, databases, and file servers.
• Automation: Developing and implementing automation scripts and processes using tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Puppet to streamline infrastructure management and deployments.
• Monitoring and Performance Optimization: Monitoring system performance, identifying bottlenecks, and optimizing resource utilization to ensure high availability and performance.
• Security: Implementing and maintaining security best practices for cloud environments, including access controls, encryption, and network security.
• Troubleshooting: Diagnosing and resolving issues related to Linux systems, GCP services, and applications hosted on the platform.
• Collaboration: Working closely with development teams and other IT professionals to support application deployments, troubleshoot issues, and implement solutions.
• Documentation: Creating and maintaining documentation for system configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting guides.
• Compliance: Ensuring that systems and processes adhere to relevant security and compliance requirements.

Specific Skills and Technologies:

• Linux: In-depth knowledge of Linux operating systems (e.g., Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat), including system administration, troubleshooting, and performance tuning, storage management, OS upgrades, OS patching
• Troubleshooting: Excellent in troubleshooting the Linux and Windows servers administration issues. Able to provide the RCA
• GCP: Strong understanding of GCP services like Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Storage, and networking services.
• Automation Tools: Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform.
• Scripting: Proficiency in scripting languages like Bash, Python for automation and task management.
• Security: Knowledge of security best practices for cloud environments, including access control, encryption, and vulnerability management.
• Monitoring and Logging: Experience with monitoring tools like Datadog, logicMonitor etc.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Total experience should be 5 to 7 years in Linux administration .
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in designing, architecting, implementation, and managing cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform
• 2+ years of strong experience in Kubernetes. Working knowledge and skills in cloud container services (e.g. GKE, EKS, AKS), storage services (e.g. EBS), and database services,
• Strong working experience on GCP, terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Linux, Ansible & Docker.
• Hands-on experience in OS - Linux and Windows troubleshooting and patching.
• Working knowledge about docker, dockerfiles
• Experience with the concept of "infrastructure as code" and configuration management tools like Terraform is a must
• Experience with Load Balancers,
• Excellent technical troubleshooting experience.
• Using deployment pipelines i.e. Git, Jenkins, Artifactory etc. (How to set up pipelines, a basic understanding of Jenkins, Git, Artifactory)

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