Systems Engineer II

Joining our Systems Engineering team is an opportunity to make a significant impact. Your role in designing, constructing, implementing, and supporting our systems and services is crucial. We rely on these systems to deploy our applications to both private and public clouds, and your contribution is essential to our success. This position offers an excellent chance to expand your expertise in various technologies, including containers, configuration and orchestration tools, public cloud providers, CI/CD pipelines, and more. 

How you will contribute: 

• Developing, enhancing, and maintaining our core services within our private and public clouds. 

• Building your knowledge and understanding of our core services and infrastructure and how we can improve them. 

• Working closely with application, architecture, and platform teams to deliver innovative solutions. 

• Increasing the security, stability, and scalability of our core services such as server provisioning, container orchestration, secrets management and server configuration management. 

• Developing new pipelines and scripts to improve automation and software delivery. 

• Assist in training and mentoring junior team members. 

• Keep abreast of modern technologies and developments that could benefit our team and the wider business. 

• Work with the Head of Systems Engineering and Senior Systems Engineers to develop the technology roadmap and identify opportunities for improvements. 

• Manage project timelines and documentation. 

• Being part of our regular on-call schedule for out-of-hours support. 

• Working independently as well as within our team and with other members of Bottomline. 

What will make you successful (must-have): 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or other similar work experience. 

• You have excellent experience with using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) languages such as Terraform to build, deploy, and maintain systems. 

• You have built and maintained self-hosted / on-premises Kubernetes clusters. 

• You have excellent scripting skills in Bash or Python. 

• You have practical experience with CI/CD tools such as Gitlab, ArgoCD or Jenkins. 

• Great analytical thinking and critical thinking skills. 

• Strong knowledge of different operating systems. 

• You are enthusiastic about learning innovative technologies and sharing your knowledge with others. 

• You enjoy solving complex problems and working to identify solutions to current issues. 

• You wish to leave systems and processes better than you found them. 

What will help you (not essential to have): 

• You have experience with public and/or hybrid cloud infrastructure such as AWS and Azure. 

• You have good working knowledge of automation & configuration management systems such as Ansible or Puppet. 

• You have a background in systems administration.