Are you ready to write your next chapter?
Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. With proven technology, we process the largest volume of payments in the world, driving the global economy every day. When you join Worldpay, you join a global community of experts and changemakers, working to reinvent an industry by constantly evolving how we work and making the way millions of people pay easier, every day.
What makes a Worldpayer? It’s simple: Think, Act, Win. We stay curious, always asking the right questions to be better every day, finding creative solutions to simplify the complex. We’re dynamic, every Worldpayer is empowered to make the right decisions for their customers. And we’re determined, always staying open – winning and failing as one.
We’re looking for a Platform Engineer - Kafka, Postgres and Kubernetes to join our evolving Platform team to help us unleash the potential of every business.
Are you ready to make your mark? Then you sound like a Worldpayer.
About the team
Working with a group of highly skilled platform engineers, this role is all about engineering and maturing the global Worldpay Kubernetes/OpenShift compute platform and beyond.
Within our “Platform Team” at Worldpay, we are building, releasing and operating technology products and services to support an elastically scalable and fault tolerant platform running Kubernetes with OpenShift at scale.
We are planning to grow our team and are looking for experts in running Kafka and database solutions on Kubernetes runtime and beyond.
What you will be doing
To succeed in this position, you'll require strong technical competence in messaging solutions and database persistence space, experience in the Kubernetes and in 24/7 operations, plus you'll have managed (or better, automated) production deployments and really understand what it means to "ship". That said, technology is a means and not an end for you; the people and systems you affect and interact with matter the most. You care about the tools used to get the job done, but they don’t define you. You love to solve new problems and thrive in a rapidly innovating and changing space.
What you bring:
Experience with running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes (architecture, components, producers, consumers, deployment, configuration, optimization, brokers etc)
Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of SQL and NoSQL databases, including MySQL/MariaDB, Postgres or Cassandra.
Experience and comfortable managing with container orchestration technologies in production (eg: RedHat OpenShift, Kubernetes)
Strong experience with containers and immutable infrastructure
Strong experience of working in Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Experience with GitOps deployment tools such as argoCD or Flux
Experience in continuous integration and delivery tooling (eg: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform)
Added bonus if you have:
Experience of working in a global online business, ideally providing financial trades or transfers; of particular interest are payment companies, merchant providers, financial trading platforms and online gaming experience
Knowledge of security aspects of financial trading/monetary transfer systems; including but not limited to PCI Compliance, DDoS prevention, IDS, Container Security and regulatory audit requirements
Have knowledge of or demonstrable experience in programming languages (such as Python, Golang)
Good knowledge of standard internet protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, HTTP and relevant troubleshooting tools and knowledge of Linux based operating systems
Worldpay perks - what we’ll bring for you
We know it’s bigger than just your career. It’s your life, and your world. That’s why we offer global benefits and programs to support you at every stage. Here’s a taste of what you can expect.
A competitive salary and benefits.
Time to support charities and give back to your community.
Parental leave policy.
Global recognition platform.
Virgin Pulse access.
Global employee assistance program.
What makes a Worldpayer
At Worldpay, we take our Values seriously, and we live them every day. Think like a customer, Act like an owner, and Win as a team.
Empowered. Accountable. Dynamic. We stay agile, using our initiative, taking calculated risks to progress. Never standing still, never settling, we work at pace to achieve our goals. We champion our ideas and stay flexible to make them happen. We know that every action adds up.
Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Worldpayer.
Apply now to write the next chapter in your career. We can’t wait to hear from you.
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