Infrastructure Automation Engineer

Are you ready to be part of a team that drives innovation and transformation in technology? At PayPoint, we're looking for an Infrastructure Automation Engineer to join us on our journey towards sustainable and efficient automation solutions.

Why choose PayPoint?

At PayPoint, we're passionate about ensuring sustainable uptime, self-healing, and weekly releases while embracing market and agile best practices. We currently work with legacy environments and continue to push forward with cutting-edge cloud technology to automate everything we do, ensuring a constant and repeatable approach.
Your Role: As a member of our Automation team, you'll play a crucial role in accelerating speed to deployment for new projects and infrastructure improvements. You'll collaborate closely with other Infrastructure teams, Networks, DBA, InfoSec whilst applying your Automation/DevOps skills to innovate and develop our delivery in a fast-paced, service-focused environment.

What will you be doing?

• Drive improvements through automation to enhance reliability, availability, and performance of Infrastructure services.


• Identify and deliver opportunities for technical and process improvements driven by automation.


• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements such as PCI DSS, ISO27001, and Cyber Security Essentials.


• Assist with Projects and Infrastructure Delivery to ensure alignment with business needs and compliance standards.


• Proactively drive automation of infrastructure tasks to reduce time overheads and improve standard practices.


• Continuously seek improvements to existing processes and implement them in line with PayPoint standards.


• Update documentation, policies, and procedures, ensuring adherence across the team.


• Ensure performance metrics and monitoring are in place to meet business expectations., We're looking for an Infrastructure Automation Engineer to join us on our journey towards sustainable and efficient automation solutions., As a member of our Automation team, you'll play a crucial role in accelerating speed to deployment for new projects and infrastructure improvements. You'll collaborate closely with other Infrastructure teams, Networks, DBA, InfoSec whilst applying your Automation/DevOps skills to innovate and develop our delivery in a fast-paced, service-focused environment
  
  Production Infrastructure Support and some Automation experience.


• DevOps experience in an agile environment.


• Strong problem-solving skills and analysis.


• Detail-oriented with strong written and verbal communication skills.


• Experience with scripting and automation with PowerShell, Bash, Python, SQL, Terraform.


• Experience of software testing.


• Knowledge of Windows Desktop and Server OS's, Linux, and Microsoft Azure Technologies.


• Experience working with containerization (Docker and K8's an advantage), Jenkins (Or similar), and GIT (or similar MSTFS, etc).


• Previous experience of VMWare scripting, Hyper-V scripting, and NetApp scripting.


It would be great if you already have…

• PCI-DSS compliance.


• Experience of Windows Storage Spaces and Storage Spaces Direct.


• Proven experience of scripting with Ansible (or Puppet or Chef).


• Experience with software products such as zScaler, CrowdStrike, SIEM, Zabbix, Service Now, Grafana, and Prometheus.
  
  This position offers a mix of remote-based working and onsite working in our head office in Welwyn Garden City.


• Holiday purchase scheme, with 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.


• On-site gym (free) and nationwide corporate rate gym membership.


• Online benefits portal offering discounts on shopping and holidays.


• Contributory company pension scheme.


• Progression and Development.


• Private medical insurance and life assurance.


• Additional benefits available at a discounted rate.