AWS DevOps Engineer
Global Payments21 days ago
Prague, CzechiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and maintain scalable and resilient AWS platforms.
- Build and manage secure, reusable cloud infrastructure with Terraform.
- Deploy and operate containerized applications on Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.
- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines with automated security scanning, IAM governance, and secrets management.
- Improve platform reliability through monitoring, logging, alerting, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and cloud cost management.
- Manage Kubernetes environments, including Helm, ingress controllers, node groups, RBAC, and application scaling.
- Partner with stakeholders and teams to understand needs, remove impediments, and deliver value to clients and end users.
- Promote ownership, experimentation, continuous improvement, inclusivity, and high-performing collaboration.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, EKS, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda, and SQS/SNS.
- Proven Terraform expertise, including 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 strategies.
- Advanced CI/CD and automation experience with GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or AWS CodePipeline, including Blue/Green and Canary deployments.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash and strong experience managing Linux environments such as Amazon Linux, Ubuntu, and RHEL.
- Expertise in configuration management, networking, security, and observability using tools and services 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 including error budgets, SLIs/SLOs, and toil reduction is a bonus.
- Ability to work effectively with stakeholders and foster collaborative, inclusive, and distributed teams.
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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.