Senior DevOps Engineer

As a DevOps Engineer at Payter, you will play a crucial role in the company's growth by delivering key software solutions. Joining a small, close-knit team, you will engage in software delivery, collaborating closely with domain owners to deliver high-quality, clean, testable code in line with standards, strategies, and best practices.

About Payter
At Payter, we are innovators, pioneers, and leaders in the dynamic realm of unattended/self-service contactless and cashless payment technology in a wide range of markets such as Electrical Vehicle Charging, Transportation, Retail, Hospitality, Vending, Charity, Parking, and beyond. The adaptable Payter platform accommodates a diverse range of payment technologies (NFC, EMV, ApplePay, GooglePay, etc.), international banking processes, closed-loop payment and loyalty schemes and telemetry.

Through continuous innovation and in-house development, we redefine how vendors connect with their customers, empowering them to boost revenue, enhance user experiences, and access real-time sales and performance data. We support a broad range of technologies, from Contact & Contactless EMV, Mifare, WiFi, 5G, Bluetooth, Touch Screens and more. Our state-of-the-art products have an extremely long service life, are of high quality, compliant with multiple international standards, boast great design, are user-friendly for all, multifunctional, and easy to integrate.

Examples of successful collaboration include:

• EV Charging: Fastned, Shell, BP, Ionity, Alfen, EVBOX

• Cashless Charity Donations: Hartstichting, WWF, Save the Children, Royal British Legion

• Food & Drink Vending: Coca Cola, Lavazza, Starbucks, Jacobs Douwe Egberts, Costa, Heineken, Maas International, Franke, WMF, Wurlitzer, Selecta

• Hospitality & public locations: Compass Group, Sodexo, Albron, TU Delft, TU Eindhoven

• Gaming & Entertainment: Pinball, Slot Machines, Gaming Arcades, Efteling

• Petrol Stations services Laundry, Car Wash, Kiosks, Toilets: Shell, BP, Exxon

• Special Products: Photo Booths, Dog Wash Station

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure cloud infrastructure for our new platform while maintaining and enhancing existing production systems alongside the current DevOps team

• Architect and implement comprehensive Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform, establishing reusable modules and advanced deployment patterns across multiple environments

• Design, build, and optimise complex CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket Pipelines, incorporating advanced deployment strategies including canary releases, and automated rollback mechanisms

• Implement sophisticated monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using GCP native tools, with emphasis on proactive anomaly detection, predictive failure analysis, and SLO/SLI management

• Drive automation initiatives across the organisation, eliminating manual processes and establishing GitOps workflows and Everything-as-Code practices for consistent infrastructure management

• Lead security implementation ensuring PCI-DSS, PCI-PIN, and PCI-P2PE compliance, including infrastructure hardening, access controls, and integrated security scanning within deployment pipelines

• Work with existing DevOps engineers and collaborate with Software Engineering teams to optimise deployment processes and foster a culture of continuous improvement

• Establish and maintain disaster recovery procedures, backup strategies, and high-availability architectures to ensure business continuity and system resilience

• 5+ years of Senior DevOps/Site Reliability Engineering experience with demonstrated expertise in leading complex, enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure projects and team mentorship

• Expert-level proficiency with Google Cloud Platform including advanced services (GKE, Cloud Run Services, VPC networking, IAM, Cloud Armor, API Gateways) and cost optimisation strategies

• Deep expertise in Bitbucket and Bitbucket Pipelines including complex workflow orchestration, parallel execution strategies, advanced branching models, and pipeline optimisation techniques

• Advanced Terraform experience including module development, remote state management, workspace strategies, and enterprise-scale infrastructure provisioning patterns

• Proven experience with Kubernetes administration including cluster management, advanced networking, service mesh implementation, resource optimisation, and troubleshooting distributed systems

• Demonstrated ability to design and implement highly available, fault-tolerant systems with experience in event-driven architectures, microservices, and distributed system challenges

• Advanced knowledge of database administration (SQL/NoSQL), caching technologies, and data pipeline optimisation in cloud-native environments

• Strong expertise in security practices, compliance frameworks (PCI-DSS, PCI-PIN, PCI-P2PE), infrastructure hardening, and security monitoring with hands-on experience in network security and access management would be advantageous

Technical Skills

• Cloud Platform: Expert-level Google Cloud Platform (GCP) including advanced service integration, networking, and cost management

• Version Control & CI/CD: Advanced Bitbucket and Bitbucket Pipelines expertise with complex workflow design and optimisation capabilities

• Infrastructure as Code: Deep Terraform proficiency including enterprise module development, state management, and advanced provisioning patterns

• Container Orchestration: Advanced Kubernetes (GKE) administration including service mesh, advanced networking, and performance tuning

• Monitoring & Observability: Google Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, distributed tracing, and advanced alerting with SLI/SLO implementation

• Security & Compliance: PCI-DSS, PCI-PIN and PCI-P2PE standards implementation, infrastructure security hardening, and automated security scanning integration

• Database & Caching: Advanced experience with cloud databases (Alloy DB, Cloud SQL, Firestore, BigQuery), Memcached, and data pipeline optimisation

• Networking & Load Balancing: Expert knowledge of GCP VPC design, Cloud Load Balancer configuration, firewall management, and hybrid cloud connectivity

• Software Development Practices: Advanced Git workflows, automated testing integration, code review processes, and understanding of software architecture patterns

Soft Skills

• Excellent technical communication skills, demonstrated by experience in bringing the team on the journey, and promoting DevOps best practices.

• Advanced problem-solving and analytical thinking capabilities, with proven expertise in diagnosing complex distributed system issues and implementing comprehensive solutions.

• Outstanding communication skills, capable of clearly articulating technical challenges and solutions to diverse audiences, including executives, product managers, and development teams

• A strong commitment to quality and continuous improvement, coupled with a passion for delivering enterprise-grade, maintainable solutions that inspire pride within teams

What do we have to offer?

• Competitive compensation including a discretionary bonus based on business results;

• Great benefits like 25 leave days plus extra monthly “wellbeing days”, a travel allowance and an attractive pension plan;

• We are great supporters of flexible working, but we need to align. If you’re based in the Netherlands you can work from our homely office in Rotterdam close to public transport with a free lunch, or hybrid/remote from home, and potentially work part time. Alternatively we’re also building our fully remote team in the UK. We’re unfortunately not in a position to hire outside of these regions for now.

• Thrive in a close-knit environment valuing flexibility, work-life balance, and mental well-being;

Join Payter and become part of an international scale-up, shaping the future in a booming market where you can have impact and growth opportunities.

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