Cloud & Linux Engineer – Restaurant Payments Solutions

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled Cloud / Linux Engineer to support Wendy’s Restaurant Solutions related to in-restaurant payment systems across the United States. This role focuses on configuration management, cloud infrastructure, DevOps automation, and large-scale Linux deployments to ensure secure, reliable, and compliant payment operations across thousands of restaurant devices.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Support cloud and configuration management engineering for in-restaurant payment devices.
• Manage and maintain the health of payment systems, including patching, terminal configuration, profiling, and enforcing standards using automation tools such as Puppet.
• Perform technical upgrades, including:
• CentOS patching and migration to new Linux distributions
• Cloud migrations
• Certificate updates
• Managing updates and patching for approximately 12,000 in-restaurant devices
• Focus on cloud infrastructure management across AWS and GCP environments.
• Assist in testing, validating, and deploying payment system enhancements, updates, and new features to ensure accuracy, security, and high availability.
• Support ongoing maintenance of business-critical systems and resolve complex technical issues.
• Provide weekly project updates to the manager and participate in scheduled status and working meetings.
• Collaborate closely with managers, payments teams, and development teams to escalate and resolve critical engineering issues.
• Ensure adherence to Wendy’s policies, program standards, and technology methodologies.
• Maintain compliance with data privacy and security regulations, including PII, CCPA, GDPR, and other applicable laws.
• Contribute insights and recommendations to continuously improve payment system performance and reliability.

Mandatory Skills

• Strong experience with Linux system administration and large-scale Linux deployments.
• Hands-on expertise in Cloud platforms: AWS and GCP.
• Proven experience with DevOps, automation, and configuration management tools (Puppet preferred).
• Experience with cloud migration, patch management, and deployment architecture.
• Strong understanding of payment systems infrastructure, security, and compliance requirements.
• Experience managing and supporting large numbers of distributed devices.
• Solid troubleshooting skills with the ability to solve complex technical issues.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with engineering and business teams.
• High technical aptitude with a strong desire to continuously learn and deepen technical expertise.