Principal Devops Engineer Jobs in Atlanta, GA

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.

Verifone is proudly an in-office work culture as we see immense benefits to career development and business results from our colleagues being physically co-located.

What's exciting about the role

The Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer is a hands-on technical role at the core of Verifone's cloud infrastructure function. You will design, build, and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure, drive automation through Infrastructure as Code, and champion Kubernetes-based container orchestration at scale — all while partnering closely with development teams to enable rapid, safe software delivery. This is a role for a cloud-native engineer who brings deep AWS and Kubernetes expertise, a strong automation mindset, and the drive to continuously improve reliability, security, and developer experience across a global engineering organization.

Skills and Experience we desire

AWS & Cloud Infrastructure

• Design and manage scalable AWS infrastructure across EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, and Lambda.
• Own AWS account governance — including cost optimization, security posture, and multi-account strategies.
• Implement and maintain cloud networking, load balancing, and DNS configurations.
• Enforce AWS security best practices including IAM policies, secrets management, and compliance controls.

Kubernetes & Container Orchestration

• Lead the design, deployment, and operations of Kubernetes clusters on Amazon EKS.
• Manage workload scheduling, autoscaling (HPA/VPA/KEDA), resource quotas, and namespace strategies.
• Troubleshoot cluster and pod-level issues including networking (CNI), ingress, and storage.

Infrastructure as Code

• Build and maintain modular Terraform codebases for AWS and EKS provisioning.
• Manage Terraform state, modules, and workspaces across a team environment.
• Enforce IaC code review standards and GitOps workflows.

CI/CD & Automation

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket Actions, Jenkins, and ArgoCD.
• Automate operational tasks and reduce toil using Python scripting.
• Build tooling to improve developer experience and deployment velocity.

Monitoring & Reliability

• Implement and maintain observability stacks including New Relic, CloudWatch, and Elastic.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-mortems.
• Drive SLO/SLA definitions and ongoing reliability improvements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering role.
• Deep AWS expertise across compute, networking, storage, and security services.
• Expert-level Kubernetes knowledge — cluster administration, workload management, networking, and troubleshooting.
• Strong Terraform skills with production-grade IaC, modules, and remote state management.
• Hands-on Amazon EKS experience including managed node groups, Fargate, add-ons, and upgrades.
• Solid Python scripting for automation and operational tooling.
• Strong networking fundamentals — VPCs, subnets, security groups, VPNs, and DNS.

Preferred Experience

• Helm, Istio/Linkerd, ArgoCD/Flux, or HashiCorp Vault experience.
• SRE practices and chaos engineering background.
• Open source contributions relevant to the DevOps or cloud ecosystem.
• Active certifications including CKA, CKAD, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, or AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

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.