Job title: Senior Cloud Engineer
Department: Infrastructure and Operations
Location: Remote
Grade: 20
Our Company: Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. is a leading financial technology company that specializes in providing integrated payments and banking solutions. Our innovative financial platform empowers businesses to effortlessly collect, store, and send money in a scalable manner. We are committed to revolutionizing the way companies handle their financial transactions by offering cutting-edge technology and exceptional customer service.
Job Summary: We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Engineer to join our team. This person will ensure our systems are reliable, scalable, and highly available across our multi-datacenter and AWS cloud environments. Your expertise in designing, documenting, implementing, and troubleshooting platform and cloud technologies will support our existing datacenter implementation and ongoing cloud migration. The primary technologies engineered by this team are: Elastic Cloud, Kubernetes and EKS, Grafana, Kafka, Redis, ETCD, Hadoop, NiFi, and NGINX. This position is full-time and offers the flexibility of being fully remote.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Architect, design, document, and implement technology platforms across cloud and datacenter providers.
Monitor system performance and utilization to ensure availability and scalability.
Troubleshoot and resolve system-related issues promptly, using your experience across the entire technology stack and working with multiple internal teams.
Collaborate with other technology teams to integrate new technologies and support organizational projects and initiatives.
Engage development teams to optimize their use of our platforms; primarily kubernetes, kafka, and elastic search.
Conduct regular system audits, upgrades, and ensure compliance with industry standards and best practices.
Coach and train junior engineering staff in engineering best practices and the use of HLD, LLD, architecture diagrams, network diagrams, etc.
L3 support, rotation.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
Min 10 years in a Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or Cloud Engineering profession.
Minimum 5 years of:
Linux configuration and use (Oracle Linux or AWS Linux preferred).
Container image creation and distribution and container management systems (kubernetes preferred).
Scripting languages and automation (bash and python preferred).
Configuration management tools for administering environments (Ansible/Terraform preferred).
Git source code management and IDE use.
JIRA and (loosely) Agile methodologies.
Ability to be self sufficient when designing systems and troubleshooting.
PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS:
Compensation and Benefits:
Compensation range: $147,529 - $160k
End of Year Discretionary Bonus
Unlimited PTO after year 1 (3 weeks to start)
Medical, Dental & Vision
401k Match
Education Expense Reimbursement
Gym Membership Reimbursement
HSA and FSA
Employee assistance program (EAP)
Traditional Physical Requirements
Requires prolonged sitting, standing, bending, stooping and stretching.
Requires the ability to lift 10 pounds.
Requires eye-hand coordination, manual dexterity and a normal range of hearing and vision (with or without correction).
Join our team at Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. and be part of a dynamic and innovative company that is transforming the financial technology landscape. Together, we can shape the future of payments and banking solutions while providing unmatched value to our clients.
