Senior Systems Engineer

Verifone • Atlanta, GA

25d • Onsite

About The Position

Verifone is a leader in electronic payment technology with over 30 years of experience. We offer a diverse, dynamic, and fast-paced work environment focused on results and employee growth. We collaborate with leading retailers, merchants, banks, and partners to deliver innovative payment solutions globally. Our commitment to excellence and customer satisfaction drives our success. Verifone fosters an in-office culture to maximize career development and business results through physical co-location.

This Senior Systems Engineer role is a hands-on, operationally accountable position within Verifone's Americas IT Infrastructure team. You will be a key technical contributor to our VMware-to-KVM/CloudStack migration program and overall platform operations. This role requires deep expertise in Linux, Windows, storage, and DevOps tooling within a PCI DSS environment. We are looking for an experienced engineer who can independently manage workstreams, mentor junior team members, and drive cross-team initiatives with minimal supervision. You will proactively identify issues, propose solutions, and deliver results that enhance Verifone's infrastructure reliability and compliance.

Requirements

• 7+ years in enterprise systems engineering or IT infrastructure, with demonstrated scope expansion over time
• 4+ years of production KVM/libvirt hypervisor management
• Strong Linux administration — RHEL/Rocky/CentOS or Debian-based at scale
• Windows Server administration — Active Directory, DNS/DHCP, GPO, and domain lifecycle
• Ansible — authoring and maintaining playbooks for multi-environment configuration management
• Jenkins or equivalent CI/CD pipeline experience for infrastructure automation
• Scripting proficiency in Bash and Python
• SAN storage administration — LUN management, zoning, multipath I/O, iSCSI or Fibre Channel
• Demonstrated ability to mentor junior engineers and guide technical work
• Experience working within PCI DSS or another regulated compliance framework

Nice To Haves

• CloudStack or OpenStack orchestration platform experience
• Prior VMware-to-KVM migration programme experience
• Pure Storage FlashArray or Dell EMC VMAX/PowerMax administration
• HPE Synergy or BladeSystem chassis operations
• RHCE, RHCSA, or equivalent Linux certification
• Git-based IaC workflow experience (Terraform, GitOps patterns)
• Exposure to SIEM/FIM tooling (Wazuh, Splunk, or similar)

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and execution of KVM/libvirt hypervisor deployments across US data centers.
• Drive VMware-to-KVM/CloudStack workload migrations end-to-end, including planning, VM conversion, storage migration, and cutover coordination.
• Administer CloudStack zones, clusters, templates, and storage pools; own VM lifecycle operations at scale.
• Independently troubleshoot complex hypervisor, networking, and storage performance issues.
• Own and maintain Ansible playbooks for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and patching at scale.
• Build and manage Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure-as-code workflows and automated deployments.
• Lead adoption of Git-based IaC practices across the team and guide junior engineers' automation contributions.
• Develop Python and Bash automation to reduce operational toil and improve consistency across environments.
• Administer RHEL/Rocky/Ubuntu Linux and Windows Server environments — provisioning, patching, hardening, and lifecycle management.
• Support Active Directory domain decommission and consolidation, including legacy Windows Server migration activities.
• Enforce OS security baselines aligned to PCI DSS v4.0 and provide evidence for audit cycles.
• Serve as Tier 3 escalation for OS-level incidents across Linux and Windows platforms.
• Manage SAN/NAS environments including LUN provisioning, zoning, multipath I/O, and iSCSI/FC configuration.
• Support Pure Storage FlashArray and VMAX operations, migrations, and performance troubleshooting.
• Integrate block and file storage with KVM/CloudStack primary and secondary storage pools.
• Provide guidance and day-to-day support to junior engineers; assist with onboarding and informal training.
• Liaise with networking, security, and storage teams to coordinate complex cross-domain changes.
• Participate in on-call rotation as a senior escalation resource.
• Document runbooks, architecture decisions, and procedures in Confluence; manage work via ServiceNow and Jira.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed