Senior DevOps & Infrastructure Security Engineer – Payments and Microservices

Leading international IT company specializing in high-speed, high-reliability payment solutions with a focus on fintech innovation and regulated payment infrastructures.

• Minimum 5 years hands-on experience in DevOps and Platform Engineering in high-availability environments, preferably in financial services or payments.
• Proven expertise with Kubernetes deployment, scaling, configuration, and troubleshooting.
• Strong operational knowledge of Oracle databases including connectivity, performance, HA/DR.
• Extensive experience supporting IBM MQ and IBM WebSphere Application Server in production.
• Proficiency in SQL and Linux system administration.
• Skilled in CI/CD automation tools and scripting including Git, Bash, Python, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Deep knowledge of SFTP integrations including security and automation.
• Solid capabilities in observability (logs, metrics, traces), performance tuning, and capacity management.
• Familiarity with Agile and DevOps tools such as Jira, Confluence, and SharePoint.

Nice to have:

• Experience with payments, particularly SEPA.
• Knowledge of API gateways, service meshes, container security, and vulnerability management.
• Familiarity with ITIL and operational governance.
• Experience with resilience engineering, chaos testing, and disaster recovery testing.
• Skills in Java, Puppet, Ansible, or similar configuration management tools.

• Own reliability, change delivery, and improvement of payments technology environment including IBM WebSphere, IBM MQ, Oracle, SFTP, APIs, and Kubernetes microservices.
• Build, support, and optimize CI/CD pipelines and orchestration for automated deployments.
• Manage end-to-end incident resolution, coordinate teams, update stakeholders, and conduct root-cause analyses.
• Develop and maintain support documentation, runbooks, and ensure on-call readiness.
• Support IBM MQ and WebSphere applications including security configurations (TLS), tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with DBA teams on database performance, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Lead secure SFTP integrations including key, certificate management, automation, and controls.
• Operate and automate microservices on Kubernetes covering deployment, scaling, secrets management, ingress, and observability.
• Improve CI/CD and release practices including SLIs, logging, metrics, and tracing.
• Automate routine tasks via scripting and Infrastructure as Code.
• Support operational maturity through documentation, standards, and SRE practices.
• Coordinate multi-team changes balancing speed with stability and regulatory compliance.
• Communicate project status, risks, and dependencies to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to ITSO activities for service health and sustainability.
• Support risk and control management, compliance, and risk assessments.
• Mentor colleagues and promote best engineering and operational practices.

Only candidates with an existing legal right to work in the European Union will be considered for this role.