Senior Linux Engineer

**Why Verifone**:
For more than 30 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 solution around the world. We strive for excellence in our products and services, and are obsessed with customer happiness. Across the globe, Verifone employees are leading the payments industry through experience, innovation, and an ambitious spirit. Whether it’s developing the next platform of secure payment systems or searching for new ways to bring electronic payments to new markets, the team at Verifone is dedicated to the success of our customers, partners and investors. It is this passion for innovation that drives each one of our employees for personal and professional success.

**What you'll do**:

- Complete BAU tasks, escalating where exceptions occur
- Respond to and escalate service incidents, ensuring all incidents are resolved within SLA.
- Develop and implement new BAU tasks and manage change within BAU task procedures.
- Complete acceptance testing of new releases and patches, providing technical feedback to Development
- Manage the deployment of system changes and maintenance tasks during specified maintenance windows.
- Perform as part of a team, respond to Customer RFPs.
- Preparation of technical documentation and SLA reporting.
- Perform as part of a team providing 24/7/365 on-call support by responding to escalations, alerts, incidence and problems that affect the environment and payment systems the team is responsible for.
- Process compliance
- Perform as part of a project delivery team if/when assigned.
- Provide hands on support on Red Hat Linux and Oracle VM operating systems
- Manage and maintain Red Hat Satellite
- Management of Puppet infrastructure and deployments
- Manage the Oracle VM capacity and provide monthly usage.
- Highlight any issues to line manager.
- Responsible for providing regular status updates, issues, concerns to management
- Review documentation and change control for technical accuracy
- Participate in product evaluation initiatives including feature analysis and system trade-offs
- Provide support and input for PCI audits and security compliance
- Perform other duties as necessary

**Expectations**:

- Delivers quality on time
- Works to delivery enterprise quality
- Ability to technically mentor the development and QA resources in the team
- Ability to participate in design and architect of technical solutions
- Seeks out opportunities to improve own and team performance
- Recommends potential improvements in infrastructure, automation, processes or services and is prepared to manage change
- Demonstrates initiative when resolving incidents or problems
- Monitors and follows up outstanding issues
- Strong Systems Administration

**What qualifications will you need to be successful?**:

- Bachelor’s / Master’s Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
- Enterprise-level experience in Linux administration.
- 5-7 years in hands-on systems implementation and administration
- ITIL Foundation certification
- Working knowledge of Networking components, Load balancers, firewalls, routers, switches
- Advanced Bash scripting
- Experience of automation using Ansible, Puppet and Foreman.
- Working knowledge of monitoring solutions, such as Nimsoft and Zabbix
- Experience managing Docker environments
- Experience of managing OpenStack environments
- Experience in the payment industry is a plus.
- Working experience with change management ticketing systems and process, i.e. ServiceNow
- Knowledge of PCI requirements 3.x is a plus
- Experience of working in an enterprise environment
- RHCE certified DesirableRed Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible AutomationRed Hat Certified Specialist in Container Management

**Soft Skills**:

- Positive attitude
- Attention to detail
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work individually as well as to work with others in the team
- Ability to work in cross cultural environment.
- Ability to manage risks
- Fast learning curve
- Self-motivated and accountable
- Should possess excellent communication skills to interact with various stakeholders of the project
- Good team player

**Our commitment**:
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