Senior System Engineer: Automation & Microservices

SAKSOFT PTE LIMITED; Dublin; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

SAKSOFT PTE LIMITED in Ireland seeks a System Engineer with 6–9 years of experience to manage application support, middleware, and production operations in Open Systems. You will work on Linux/Unix environments, Java/Python automation, and API-driven integrations focusing on cards and payments platforms.

You will drive automation, optimize deployments, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to sustain high availability across Dev, SIT, UAT, and production environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 6 years of experience in application support, middleware support, system administration, or related technology roles.
• Experience in banking, cards, and payments systems is preferred.
• Experience with Cardlink, VisionPLUS, or similar card processing platforms is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Build and support application environments across Development, SIT, UAT, and Mock Run.
• Monitor system health, performance, capacity, interfaces, and batch processing to ensure high availability.
• Administer and support Linux/Unix environments.
• Develop automation solutions using Python, Java, Shell scripting, and APIs.
• Manage environments, configurations, upgrades, patching, and certificate changes.
• Drive operational excellence through automation, standardization, and process improvements.
• Troubleshoot application, middleware, database, network, and infrastructure issues.
• Support testing, releases, change implementations, and Production Assurance activities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional technology teams to resolve issues and deliver enhancements.
• Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and support knowledge repositories.

Skills

Linux/Unix

JBoss

APIs

IBM MQ

RabbitMQ

Kafka

ActiveMQ

Microservices

REST/SOAP

JSON/XML

Cloud platforms

Containers

DevOps CI/CD

Automation tools

Python

Java

Shell scripting

Oracle

MS SQL

MariaDB

PostgreSQL

NoSQL databases

Geneos

Splunk

Cardlink VisionPLUS

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline

Job description

SAKSOFT PTE LIMITED in Ireland seeks a System Engineer with 6–9 years of experience to manage application support, middleware, and production operations in Open Systems. You will work on Linux/Unix environments, Java/Python automation, and API-driven integrations focusing on cards and payments platforms.

You will drive automation, optimize deployments, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to sustain high availability across Dev, SIT, UAT, and production environments.