What's exciting about the roleThe Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer is a hands-on technical role at the core of Verifone's cloud infrastructure function. You will design, build, and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure, drive automation through Infrastructure as Code, and champion Kubernetes-based container orchestration at scale - all while partnering closely with development teams to enable rapid, safe software delivery.This is a role for a cloud-native engineer who brings deep AWS and Kubernetes expertise, a strong automation mindset, and the drive to continuously improve reliability, security, and developer experience across a global engineering organization.
Skills and Experience we desireAWS & Cloud Infrastructure- Design and manage scalable AWS infrastructure across EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, and Lambda.
- Own AWS account governance - including cost optimization, security posture, and multi-account strategies.
- Implement and maintain cloud networking, load balancing, and DNS configurations.
- Enforce AWS security best practices including IAM policies, secrets management, and compliance controls.
Kubernetes & Container Orchestration- Lead the design, deployment, and operations of Kubernetes clusters on Amazon EKS.
- Manage workload scheduling, autoscaling (HPA/VPA/KEDA), resource quotas, and namespace strategies.
- Troubleshoot cluster and pod-level issues including networking (CNI), ingress, and storage.
Infrastructure as Code- Build and maintain modular Terraform codebases for AWS and EKS provisioning.
- Manage Terraform state, modules, and workspaces across a team environment.
- Enforce IaC code review standards and GitOps workflows.
CI/CD & Automation- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket Actions, Jenkins, and ArgoCD.
- Automate operational tasks and reduce toil using Python scripting.
- Build tooling to improve developer experience and deployment velocity.
Monitoring & Reliability- Implement and maintain observability stacks including New Relic, CloudWatch, and Elastic.
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-mortems.
- Drive SLO/SLA definitions and ongoing reliability improvements.
Qualifications- 5+ years of experience in a DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering role.
- Deep AWS expertise across compute, networking, storage, and security services.
- Expert-level Kubernetes knowledge - cluster administration, workload management, networking, and troubleshooting.
- Strong Terraform skills with production-grade IaC, modules, and remote state management.
- Hands-on Amazon EKS experience including managed node groups, Fargate, add-ons, and upgrades.
- Solid Python scripting for automation and operational tooling.
- Strong networking fundamentals - VPCs, subnets, security groups, VPNs, and DNS.
Preferred Experience- Helm, Istio/Linkerd, ArgoCD/Flux, or HashiCorp Vault experience.
- SRE practices and chaos engineering background.
- Open source contributions relevant to the DevOps or cloud ecosystem.
- Active certifications including CKA, CKAD, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, or AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
