Senior Systems 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. 

Monitors and controls client operating systems to ensure efficient and continuous performance. Advises on the technical aspects of information systems and products, cost, technical requirements to meet customer needs/system environment. Prepares flow charts, models, and procedures and conducts feasibility studies to design possible system solutions.

• Work with leadership to formulate plans to meet the strategic direction of the Infrastructure Engineering team
• Support automated methodologies for build activities, such as for servers, load balancer VIPs, application firewall rules and firewall policies
• Partake in ownership and engineering efforts, such as new infrastructure solutions design and optimization, for multiple engineering projects, concurrently
• Maintain installation and configuration procedures, and drive automation around these areas
• Support the efforts for cross-training and collaboration with other members of the team. Develop shared knowledge of leveraged tools on the team, eliminating single points of knowledge and dependencies
• Work with management and technical peers to establish and support technical policies and procedures.  Continuously provide procedures to operational teams and work with these teams to ensure details are up-to-date, accurate and understood
• Drive compliance and security efforts related to systems managed by the team
• Support and continuously improve upon methods to improve availability of infrastructure services
• Work with the Project Managers and Infrastructure Coordinators on project progress, issues and solutions

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, other majors considered. additional experience in lieu of a degree.
• Strong command on handling Unix/Linux infrastrucuture.
• Strong scripting knowledge including Python and BASH scripting.
• Should have a good experience in IAC framework (Infrastructure As Code).
• Should have a strong experinece in AWS cloud.
• Should have an extensive experince in Terraform code management.
• Super strong knowledge on Splunk Administration and Splunk Programming.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, other majors considered. additional experience in lieu of a degree.
• Strong command on handling Unix/Linux infrastrucuture.
• Strong scripting knowledge including Python and BASH scripting.
• Should have a good experience in IAC framework (Infrastructure As Code).
• Should have a strong experinece in AWS cloud.
• Should have an extensive experince in Terraform code management.
• Super strong knowledge on Splunk Administration and Splunk Programming.

• Skills / Knowledge - A seasoned, experienced professional with a full understanding of area of specialization; resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways. This job is the fully qualified, career-oriented, journey-level position.
• Job Complexity - Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors. Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions. Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise.
• Supervision - Normally receives little instruction on day-to-day work, general instructions on new assignments.
• Unix/Linux, Terraform, AWS Cloud technologies, Python, SPLUNK Administration and programming.

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