Job Description

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.

of This Role

Combines software development and IT operations practices which shorten the systems delivery life cycle and provide a continuous delivery platform and complements the efficiencies of Agile software development methods. Builds and maintains the tooling and infrastructure used to automate the release, deployment, and upgrade processes. Ensures continuous, high velocity delivery and automated deployment through the use of software provisioning, configuration management, source code management and/or team collaboration applications.

What Part Will You Play?

• Design, build and operate robust CI/CD pipelines using Harness (pipelines, workflows, triggers, connectors, delegates, secret management, and Harness Feature Flags).

• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform to provision and manage GCP resources (GKE, Cloud SQL, Cloud Run, VPC, IAM, Artifact Registry/GCR, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub).

• Build and maintain Kubernetes platform resources and Helm/Kustomize charts; support GKE cluster lifecycle, autoscaling, and upgrades.

• Enable repeatable, secure deployments: containerization best practices, image promotion, vulnerability scanning, and signing.

• Implement release strategies: blue/green, canary, traffic shifting and progressive delivery via Harness and/or service mesh integrations.

• Integrate observability and monitoring (Cloud Monitoring/Stackdriver, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki) and logging pipelines; create alerts and runbooks.

• Automate compliance, security and secrets management (GCP IAM, Secret Manager, HashiCorp Vault, vulnerability scanning).

• Troubleshoot production incidents and lead post-incident reviews; improve reliability via SRE practices and runbooks.

• Coach teams on GitOps and CI/CD best practices; write docs and platform runbooks; onboard projects onto Harness and IaC modules.

• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure deployments meet governance and audit requirements.

What Are We Looking For in This Role?

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a technical discipline
• Typically Minimum of 6-8 years years of experience in IT with expertise in complex technology solutions
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of cloud platforms (GCP preferred).
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible).
• Deep understanding of CI/CD tools and practices.
• Strong experience with container ecosystems (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).
• Excellent troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.
• Strong scripting and automation experience.
• Proven leadership and mentorship capabilities.
  

What Are Our Desired Skills and Capabilities?

• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform: GKE, IAM, VPC, Cloud Storage, Artifact Registry/GCR, Cloud SQL, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud Monitoring.

• Practical experience building/deploying pipelines in Harness (creating pipelines/workflows, connectors, secrets, delegates, triggers, and Harness’ progressive delivery features).

• Strong Terraform skills for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure; modular, testable modules.

• Kubernetes experience: manifest authoring, Helm/Kustomize, cluster troubleshooting, deployments, RBAC and networking.

• Solid Linux, Docker/containerization, and Git skills.

• Experience with CI/CD concepts: build agents, artifact promotion, canary/blue-green, rollback strategies.

• Familiarity with CI tools (Jenkins/GitHub Actions/GitLab) and container registries.

• Strong scripting skills (Powershell) for automation tasks.

• Good communication and cross-functional teamwork skills; ability to write clear runbooks and documentation.

Global Payments Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Global Payments provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by law. If you wish to request reasonable accommodations related to applying for employment or provide feedback about the accessibility of this website, please contact jobs@globalpayments.com