DevOps Engineer, EMEA

Verifone; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading electronic payment technology firm in London seeks a DevOps Engineer to drive transformation and automation for payment platforms. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in DevOps practices, strong programming skills, and expertise in monitoring systems. The role involves collaboration across teams to optimize platform performance and ensure reliability for millions of users. This position offers competitive compensation and growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience with DevOps or Platform Engineering in production environments.
• Expert knowledge of enterprise monitoring systems.
• Strong programming skills in a modern language.
• Proven track record of CI/CD pipeline implementation.

Responsibilities

• Support design and deployment of applications and tooling.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines with engineering teams.
• Lead initiatives to automate tasks and deployments.
• Develop monitoring solutions for application performance.

Skills

DevOps / Platform Engineering experience

Knowledge of enterprise monitoring systems like ELK, New Relic

Kubernetes

Programming/scripting in Python, Go, or Rust

DevOps tooling and build/release process

Linux and Windows systems administration

Communication skills

Implementing CI/CD pipelines

On-call support

Infrastructure as Code (IAC)

Networking fundamentals

Analytical skills

Job description

Why Verifone

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 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's exciting about the role

Step into a pivotal role driving Verifone’s transformation from traditional application support to a modern, scalable platform and software engineering powerhouse. You’ll shape cutting-edge DevOps practices, deploy automation at scale, and directly influence the reliability and performance of payment platforms used by millions of customers worldwide.

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 You'll Need

• 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 skill

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)

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. Verifone is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.