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. 

Summary of This Role

Responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning. Creates a bridge between development and operations by applying a software engineering mindset to system administration topics. Splits time between operations/on-call duties and developing systems and software that help increase site reliability and performance.

What Part Will You Play?Chaos engineering - you’re expected to think laterally about how our systems might fail in theory, design tests to demonstrate how they behave in practice, and then formulate and implement remediation plans, as appropriate.Pushing our systems to their limits, and then coming up with designs for how to get them to the next performance tier.Use practices from DevOps and GitOps to improve automation and processes to make self service possible.Safeguarding reliability. Ensuring that our services are highly available, resilient against disasters, self-monitoring, and self-healing.Running “game days” to test assumptions about reliability and learn what will break before it matters to customers.Reviewing designs with an eye toward increasing the holistic stability of our platform and identifying potential risks.Building systems to proactively monitor the health, performance and security of our production and non-production virtualized infrastructure.Improving our monitoring and alerting systems to make sure engineers get paged when it matters (and don’t get paged when it doesn’t).Troubleshooting systems and network issues, alongside our Technical Operations Team.Evolving our SDLC, practices, and tooling to account for Site Reliability considerations and best practices.Developing runbooks and improving documentation.

What Are We Looking For in This Role?Minimum QualificationsBS in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business / Management Information Systems or related fieldTypically minimum of 2 years relevant experience

Preferred QualificationsNothing provided

What Are Our Desired Skills and Capabilities?Skills / Knowledge - Developing professional expertise, applies company policies and procedures to resolve a variety of issues.Job Complexity - Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of a variety of factors. Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action. Builds productive internal/external working relationships.Supervision - Normally receives general instructions on routine work, detailed instructions on new projects or assignments.Experience in Public and Private Clouds, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, OpenShift, Kubernetes or AWS EKS

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.