Senior DevOps Engineer in Ashford

For more than 40 years Verifone has established a remarkable record of leadership in the electronic payment technology industry. Verifone has one of the leading electronic payment solutions brands and is one of the largest providers of electronic payment systems worldwide. Verifone has a diverse, dynamic and fast paced work environment in which employees are focused on results and have opportunities to excel. We take pride in the fact that we work with leading retailers, merchants, banks, and third party partners to invent and deliver innovative payments solutions around the world. We strive for excellence in our products and services, and are obsessed with customer happiness.

This is a chance to join Verifone and be a part of the team building the tooling, automation and infrastructure that power secure, high‑volume payment services used globally. You’ll work hands‑on with technologies like Kubernetes, ELK, Prometheus, Python/Go and modern CI/CD frameworks to shape how software is delivered at scale. Your impact will be visible: from improving observability and reliability across our payment platforms to driving an automate‑first culture that removes manual effort and accelerates delivery for engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the design and deployment of applications and tooling to support Verifone’s evolution from traditional Application Support and Development teams to scalable and modernized Platform and Software Engineering functions.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines with Verifone’s Software Engineering Teams and support the streamlining of software development lifecycle processes.
• Demonstrate an ‘automate-first’ mindset, leading initiatives to automate manual maintenance and repeatable tasks and critical business requests in addition to environment deployment.
• Recommend, design and execute optimizations to improve the observability, performance and overall reliability of Verifone’s payment platforms.
• Develop and maintain monitoring and logging solutions to ensure visibility into application performance and security.
• Advocate DevOps culture, mentoring peers within Application Support Teams.
• Create and maintain technical documentation to support the deployment of DevOps fundamentals driven throughout our regions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (DevOps, Development, Operations) to ensure seamless deployment of new features and services.

Skills and Experience We're Looking For:

• 5+ years’ experience with DevOps / Platform Engineering within production environments.
• Expert knowledge of operating, configuring and optimizing enterprise monitoring systems such as ELK, New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus etc.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes.
• Strong programming/scripting skills in a modern language like Python, Go, or Rust.
• Strong, hands-on knowledge of DevOps tooling, concepts, build/release process.
• Strong understanding of Linux and Windows systems administration.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven track record of successfully implementing large-scale CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.
• Strong experience providing on-call support.
• Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IAC), Configuration Management (CM).
• Strong awareness of release and deployment best practices, SDLC and security best practices.
• Knowledge of private and public cloud networking fundamentals.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.

Nice to Have:

• Experience working within financial services industry, particularly exposure to payment solutions.
• Knowledge of PCI-DSS standards and regulations.
• Experience in application Development.
• Knowledge of PKI infrastructure and certificates.
• Experience of Hardware Security Modules (HSMs).

Verifone is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Verifone is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.