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. 

Purpose

Design, develop, test, and release software to consumers. 

Apply Release Engineering best practices and principles that will make development cycles shorter and assist teams in continuously delivering high-quality software. 

Integrate daily Dev/Ops tasks involved in the development, quality control, deployment, and integration of software development into a single, continuous set of processes.

Essential Duties

Systems analysis and documentation (10%)

Analyze the technology currently being used and develops plans and processes for improvement and expansion of the CI/CD EcoSystem 

Write Release Engineering Standard Operation Procedures 

Collaborate with the development, IT, DBA, Security teams to define CI/CD requirements

Project planning (10%)

Participate in project planning meetings to share release engineering knowledge of system deployment options, risk, impact, and costs vs. benefits. 

Communicate operational requirements and Dev/Ops development forecasts.

Building and setting up development tools and infrastructure (50%)

Design, develop, code, build, install, configure, and maintain IT solutions for: 

Continuous management 

Continuous integration 

Continuous testing 

Continuous deployment 

Continuous monitoring 

Automate and improve development and release processes

Test and review automation code 

Work with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established release processes and works as intended

Deployment (20%)

Maintain and continuously improve configuration management software to automatically deploy updates and fixes into the production environment.

Maintain and continuously improve recovery management software to automatically rollback deployed updates. 

Maintenance, Troubleshooting and Performance management (10%) 

Perform routine application maintenance to ensure the production environment runs smoothly. 

Develop maintenance requirements and procedures.

Identify problems or bottlenecks in everyday processes and procedures

Suggest improvements and implement fixes as needed to ensure processes meet expectations

Recommend performance enhancements by performing gap analysis, identifying alternative solutions, and assisting with modifications.

Other Duties

None

Required Qualifications

Experience with infrastructure as code environments, including activities around the automated server or network configurations, large-scale software deployments, or monitoring and testing, such as continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)

Experience with Linux & Windows systems administration

Experience with provisioning and managing infrastructure as well as applications in Cloud environments including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Experience with identifying and implementing automation to improve user experience (UX)

Experience with scripting in Bash, PowerShell, Python, Groovy, or Ruby

Experience with open technologies, DevOps, and related Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, including Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Jenkins, GitHub/GitLab, Ansible, Git/Artifactory, and others

Experience with automation tools, including Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible

Experience with system integration using a variety of protocols, including JSON, REST, and XML

Experience with leveraging JSON, YAML, or XML for configuration

Experience with DevOps and Agile methodologies

Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations preferred

Experience with containerization including OpenShift, Docker, or Kubernetes

Experience with managing project priorities and deliverables

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

5 years of experience with depth and breadth of technical expertise in designing and developing continuous integration, continuous testing, and continuous delivery frameworks. 

1 year of experience with team leadership in professional setting 

Global Payments Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

Global Payments provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by law. Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application and/or interview process should notify a representative of the Human Resources Department.