Linux Engineer

Why Verifone

For more than 30 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

We are looking for an experienced and technically minded Linux Engineer to support and maintain all Linux and Oracle VM infrastructure across multiple datacenters.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Complete BAU tasks, escalating where exceptions occur
• Respond to and escalate service incidents, ensuring all incidents are resolved within SLA
• Develop and implement new BAU tasks and manage change within BAU task procedures
• Complete acceptance testing of new releases and patches, providing technical feedback to Development
• Manage the deployment of system changes and maintenance tasks during specified maintenance windows
• Perform as part of a team, respond to Customer RFPs
• Preparation of technical documentation and SLA reporting
• Perform as part of a team providing 24/7/365 on-call support by responding to escalations, alerts, incidence and problems that affect the environment and payment systems the team is responsible for
• Process compliance
• Perform as part of a project delivery team if/when assigned
• Perform in a role as a subject matter expert in support of the environment and applications assigned
• Provide hands on support on Enterprise Linux (RHEL, Rocky, Oracle) and Oracle VM operating systems
• Manage and maintain Red Hat Satellite
• Management of Puppet infrastructure and deployments
• Manage the Oracle VM capacity and provide monthly usage
• Highlight any issues to line manager
• Responsible for providing regular status updates, issues, concerns to management Apply a sense of urgency, commitment and focus on the right priorities in developing solutions in a timely fashion
• Review documentation and change control for technical accuracy
• Participate in product evaluation initiatives including feature analysis and system trade-offs
• Provide support and input for PCI audits and security compliance
• Perform other duties as necessary

Skills and Experience we desire

• Native Finnish 
• Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years hands-on systems implementation and Enterprise-level experience in Linux administration
• ITIL Foundation certification Skills/Abilities
• Working knowledge of Networking components, Load balancers , firewalls, routers, switches
• Advanced Bash scripting
• Experience of automation using Ansible, Puppet and Foreman
• Working knowledge of monitoring solutions, such as Zabbix, ELK, App Dynamics
• Knowledge of Containerized environments
• Working experience with change management ticketing systems and process, i.e. ServiceNow
• Experience of working in an enterprise environment
• RHCE certified Desirable Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation Red Hat Certified Specialist in Container Management
• Experience in the payment industry is a plus
• Knowledge of PCI requirements 3.x is a plus
• Positive attitude, Dogmatic with strong attention to detail
• Ability to work well individually and with your team members in a cross cultural environment
• Seek out opportunities to improve your own and team performance and recommend potential improvements in infrastructure, automation, processes or services and is prepared to manage change
• You deliver enterprise level quality on time, demonstrate initiative when resolving incidents or problems, self-motivated and accountable and effectively apply critical thinking and technical expertise to efficiently guide the team

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.