AWS DevOps Engineer
Global Payments20 hours ago
Prague, CzechiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and maintain scalable and resilient AWS platforms.
- Build and manage reusable Infrastructure as Code with Terraform.
- Deploy and operate containerized applications on Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.
- Own and optimize CI/CD pipelines and embed DevSecOps practices including security scanning, IAM governance, and secrets management.
- Improve platform reliability through monitoring, logging, alerting, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and cloud cost management.
- Partner with stakeholders and teams to understand needs, remove impediments, and improve team effectiveness.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, EKS, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda, and SQS/SNS.
- Proven Terraform expertise covering modular architectures, workspace management, custom providers, and CI/CD integration.
- Practical experience operating Kubernetes and EKS environments, including Helm, ingress controllers, node groups, RBAC, and application scaling.
- Advanced CI/CD and automation experience with GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or AWS CodePipeline, including blue/green and canary releases.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash and solid experience managing Linux environments such as Amazon Linux, Ubuntu, or RHEL.
- Expertise in configuration management, networking, security, and observability using tools including Ansible, Route 53, ALB/NLB, Security Groups, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional certification is a bonus.
- Experience with ArgoCD, Istio service mesh, and SRE principles such as error budgets, SLIs/SLOs, and toil reduction is preferred.
- Ability to collaborate with stakeholders, take ownership, encourage experimentation, and foster high-performing and inclusive teams.
Benefits
- Global and inclusive team environment with opportunities to learn from industry professionals.
- Dynamic career opportunities in a global payments technology company.
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About Global Payments
Global Payments is a public payment technology and merchant services company that provides card acceptance, ecommerce, POS, and integrated software to businesses and financial institutions. It earns primarily from transaction processing fees and software subscriptions, and trades on the NYSE as GPN. Headquartered in Atlanta, it is a Fortune 500 company and combined with TSYS in 2019 to add issuer processing and banking partnerships.