Automation Engineer (Linux) - Puppet/Ansible

Senior Automation Engineer

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship, now or in the future. Candidates must be a US Citizen or Green Card Holder.

This position is hybrid 3 days per week in either our Cincinnati, OH, Atlanta, GA, or Denver, CO office OR fully remote within the Greater Boston Area.

Are you ready to write your next chapter?

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We're looking for a Senior Automation Engineer to join our ever-evolving e-commerce DevOps team and help us unleash the potential of every business.

What you'll own as the Senior Automation Engineer

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Develop, maintain, and optimize Puppet manifests and modules to automate server provisioning, configuration.
• Pipeline Development: Design and build robust CI/CD pipelines (using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions) for seamless infrastructure updates
• Configuration Management: Continuously enforce compliance and security baselines, actively mitigating configuration drift and managing system vulnerabilities.
• System Integration: Integrate Puppet with existing CI/CD toolchains to ensure infrastructure is seamlessly prepared for application deployments.
• Troubleshooting & Support: Monitor automated deployments, perform root-cause analysis on system failures, and troubleshoot pipeline or configuration issues.
• Collaboration: Partner with software developers and system administrators to translate operational needs into automated, scalable, and self-service solutions.
• Network understanding: Have network related understanding.

What you'll bring

• A Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, computer science or other related discipline or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience and 5+ years related of experience
• Core Tools: Deep, hands-on expertise with Puppet Enterprise or open-source Puppet for system configuration and state management.
• Strong hands-on experience with Linux systems administration (e.g., Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu), including system installation, configuration, performance tuning, patching, and troubleshooting.
• Solid understanding of core OS concepts such as file systems, process management, memory usage, system logs, and security best practices.
• Ability to diagnose and resolve system and network-related issues in distributed environments.
• Scripting Skills: Scripting abilities in languages like Python, Bash, or PowerShell.

It's a bonus if you have

• Good understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing, firewalls, load balancers, and basic network troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with other IaC tools like Terraform or Ansible
• Puppet Certified Practitioner
• Red Hat Ansible certified
• Red Hat Certified Engineer

About the team

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What makes a Worldpayer

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Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Worldpayer. Apply now to write the next chapter in your career.

Worldpay is dedicated to offering individuals rewarding career opportunities and competitive compensation. For this full-time position, the good faith estimated annual salary range upon hire is $119,000.00-$179,750.00. This range reflects what we reasonably expect to offer based on the role's responsibilities, level, and geographic location. The actual starting salary will be determined by a candidate's experience, job-related skills, and relevant education or training. Please note that changes in work location may impact the final offered salary. We encourage you to consult with your recruiter to confirm the budget for your location and to better understand the applicable pay scale. Candidates and applicants are advised they may redact age information from requested items like transcripts, resumes, and certificates attached to their application for positions that can be performed in Colorado.

EEOC Statement

Worldpay is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here.

If you are made a conditional offer of employment and will be working in the United States, you will be required to undergo a drug test. In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies and requirements needed to successfully perform the position. Reasonable accommodations will be provided for individuals with qualified disabilities both during the hiring process, as well as to allow the individual to perform the essential functions of the job, if hired.