Senior Systems Engineer

🏒 Madiff
πŸ“ United States
πŸ“… Posted Aug 15, 2026 Β· via Himalayas
🏷 Cloud Engineer, DevOps, Systems Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Senior Systems Engineer +8 more
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This is a remote position.
We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to support a high-scale, cloud infrastructure environment operating in the payments and financial services domain. This is a delivery-focused role requiring strong hands-on execution in mature, production-critical systems with strict requirements around security, availability, and performance.

Responsibilities

- Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCP

- Build and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform

- Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks for configuration management and automation

- Support Kubernetes-based environments and containerised workloads

- Design and manage networking components including VPCs, subnets, load balancers, and connectivity

- Implement security controls, access management, and compliance-related configurations

- Monitor infrastructure, optimise performance and cost, and improve reliability

- Automate operational tasks using scripting and tooling

- Support incident response and troubleshooting in production environments

- Maintain clear technical documentation and operational runbooks

Requirements

- Strong hands-on experience as a Systems Engineer or Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

- Commercial experience with AWS and GCP

- Advanced knowledge of Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices

- Solid experience with Ansible for automation and configuration management

- Strong Linux and networking fundamentals

- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

- Scripting skills in Bash or Python

- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and cloud automation

- Confident English for daily cooperation with international teams

Nice to have

- Experience working in regulated or payments environments

- Knowledge of cloud security frameworks and compliance standards

- Exposure to monitoring and observability tooling

- Understanding of cost optimisation and FinOps practices

Benefits

- Solid, competitive salary

- Work in multinational environment on international projects

- Comprehensive healthcare

- Long-term B2B contract with stable project pipeline

- Fully remote model

Originally posted on Himalayas

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