Sr. DevOps Engineer

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. 

Job Title: Sr. DevOps Engineer

Location: Alpharetta, GA

Department: Engineering / DevOps

Reports To: Manager - Engineering / DevOps

Overview:

We’re looking for a Sr. DevOps Engineer to join our platform team and help scale our build, test, and deployment workflows. You’ll own the design, development, and maintenance of both application CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code pipelines. You’ll also partner closely with our application and security teams to ensure reliable, secure, and repeatable delivery of software and infrastructure changes.

Responsibilities:

• CI/CD Pipeline Development

• Architect and implement automated build, test, and deployment workflows using tools like Harness.io and GitHub Actions.

• Continuously improve pipeline reliability, speed, and maintainability via templating, modularization, and best practices.

• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) pipelines using Terraform.

• Ensure consistent provisioning and configuration of cloud resources (compute, networking, storage, IAM).

• Operate and optimize components in AWS or Google Cloud Platform

• Monitor cost, performance, and security posture; recommend and implement improvements.

• Work hand-in-hand with application teams to onboard services onto CI/CD pipelines, define branching strategies, and automate release gates.

• Partner with security and compliance teams to bake in policies (e.g., vulnerability scans, secret management) into pipelines.

• Build reusable pipeline templates and shared libraries to accelerate delivery across teams.

• Integrate testing frameworks (unit, integration, security) and observability tools (logging, metrics, tracing) into workflows.

• Diagnose and resolve pipeline failures, infrastructure provisioning errors, or environment drift.

• Monitor and triage security vulnerabilities identified by platforms such as Wiz and Macroscope; partner with engineering and security stakeholders to drive remediation efforts.

• Collaborate with security teams to integrate automated vulnerability detection and reporting into CI/CD pipelines.

• Configure and maintain secure and reliable log forwarding from application and infrastructure layers to observability platforms such as Splunk.

• Ensure logs meet compliance, audit, and monitoring requirements; help define and enforce logging standards across environments.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles.

• Hands-on experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines with one or more major tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, etc.).

• Solid knowledge of Terraform

• Experience managing cloud resources in AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Proficient scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell, etc.).

• Strong problem-solving mindset and detective work approach to uncover root causes.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills—comfortable liaising with development teams.

Preferred Experience:

• Familiarity with container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Experience with policy-as-code tools (OPA, policy frameworks).

• Exposure to security automation (vulnerability scanning, secrets management).

• Understanding of Git branching strategies (GitFlow, trunk-based development).

Benefits:
Global Payments offers a comprehensive benefits package to all of our team members, including medical, dental and vision care, EAP programs, paid time off, recognition programs, retirement and investment options, charitable gift matching programs, and worldwide days of service. To learn more, review our Benefits page at: https://jobs.globalpayments.com/en/why-global-payments/benefits/

At this time, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must be legally authorized to work for any employer in the United States (or (applicable country) on a full-time basis without the need for current or future immigration sponsorship.

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