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.
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Key Areas of Responsibility
- Architect & Automate AWS Solutions: Design, deploy, and maintain scalable, resilient DevOps solutions within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) ecosystem, prioritizing "Automation-First" methodologies.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Architect and manage complex infrastructure using Terraform, focusing on modular design, state consistency, and automated drift detection.
- Container Orchestration: Deploy and manage high-availability applications using Amazon EKS (Kubernetes) and hybrid environments, ensuring seamless scaling and networking.
- CI/CD Leadership: Establish, optimize, and maintain end-to-end Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines to accelerate software delivery cycles and ensure code quality.
- Observability & Reliability: Implement comprehensive monitoring, centralized logging, and proactive alerting using AWS-native and open-source tools to maintain 99.9% platform reliability.
- Security Integration (DevSecOps): Collaborate with security teams to bake automated security scanning (SAST/DAST), IAM least-privilege policies, and secret management into the deployment lifecycle.
- Performance Engineering: Support deployed solutions through advanced troubleshooting, automated performance testing, and cost-optimization strategies.
Required Skills
- Fluent English (spoken and written) is mandatory – ability to communicate effectively with a global, distributed team, Czech or Slovak fluently
- AWS Expertise: Deep hands-on experience with core services: EC2, EKS, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda, and SQS/SNS.
- Terraform Mastery: Proven proficiency in Terraform for IaC, including workspace management, custom providers, and integrating Terraform into automated pipelines.
- Kubernetes (EKS): Practical experience managing EKS clusters, including Helm charts, ingress controllers, node groups, and horizontal/vertical scaling.
- Advanced CI/CD & Automation: Strong experience building pipelines in GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or AWS CodePipeline, with a focus on automated testing and deployment strategies (Blue/Green, Canary).
- Scripting & Development: Proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash for automating repetitive operational tasks and building custom tooling.
- Linux Systems: Solid knowledge of Linux administration (Amazon Linux, Ubuntu, RHEL), including kernel tuning, shell scripting, and package management.
- Configuration Management: Experience with tools like Ansible for automated server configuration and consistency.
- Networking & Security: Understanding DNS (Route 53), Load Balancing (ALB/NLB), Security Groups, and K8s RBAC.
- Stack Observability: Experience with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or the ELK stack to drive data-driven operational decisions.
- Proven ability to work independently and collaborate effectively in cross-functional teams.
- Positive attitude toward learning and adapting to new technologies.
The Following Is Considered a Plus
- AWS Certifications: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.
- GitOps Adoption: Experience with ArgoCD or Flux for declarative continuous delivery to Kubernetes.
- Advanced Networking: Experience with AWS App Mesh or Istio service mesh.
- SRE Principles: Deep understanding of Error Budgets, SLIs/SLOs, and toil reduction.
What we prepared for you:
A wide range of corporate benefits:
- annual bonus
- 5 weeks of holiday
- 5 additional days off, meal tickets - fully paid by the employer (123,-CZK/per worked day)
- Benefit Plus package in the amount of CZK 18,000 per year / possibility to use for health, relaxation, education or vacation /
- pension insurance contribution /2,500 CZK monthly/
- home office and flexible working time
- Soulmio – a mental health care programme
- uLékaře – a health care support)
Don´t hesitate to send us your CV!
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