Senior Systems Engineer

Bottomline is at the forefront of digital transformation.  We are a growing global market leader uniquely equipped to address the changing needs of how businesses pay and get paid.  Our culture of working with and for each other enables us to delight our customers.  We empower our teams to think like owners driving customer delight and helping them grow their businesses and win in their markets.

Our team is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to innovate, win and grow with us.

Joining our Systems Engineering team is an opportunity to make a significant impact. Your role in designing, constructing, implementing, and supporting our systems and services is crucial. We rely on these systems to deploy our applications to both private and public clouds, and your contribution is essential to our success. This position offers an excellent chance to expand your expertise in various technologies, including containers, configuration and orchestration tools, public cloud providers, CI/CD pipelines, and more.

How you’ll contribute:

• Developing, enhancing, and maintaining our core services within our private and public clouds.
• Building your knowledge and understanding of our core services and infrastructure and how we can improve them.
• Working closely with application, architecture, and platform teams to deliver cutting-edge solutions.

• Increasing the security, stability, and scalability of our core services such as server provisioning, container orchestration, secrets management and server configuration management.
• Developing new pipelines and scripts to improve automation and software delivery.
• Help train and mentor junior members of our team.
• Keep abreast of new technologies and developments that could benefit our team and thew wider business.
• Work with the Head of Systems Engineering and Senior Systems Engineers to develop the technology roadmap and identify opportunities for improvements.
• Manage project timelines and documentation.
• Being part of our regular on-call schedule for out-of-hours support.
• Working independently as well as within our team and with other members of Bottomline.

What will make you successful (must-have):

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or other similar work experience.
• You have excellent experience with using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) languages such as Terraform to build, deploy, and maintain systems.
• You have built and maintained self-hosted / on-premises Kubernetes clusters.
• You have excellent scripting skills in Bash or Python.
• Great analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Strong knowledge of different operating systems.
• You are enthusiastic about learning new technologies and sharing your knowledge with others.
• You enjoy solving complex problems and working to identify solutions to new issues.
• You wish to leave systems and processes better than you found them.

What will help you (not essential to have):

• You have experience with public and/or hybrid cloud infrastructure such as AWS and Azure.
• You have practical experience with CI/CD tools such as Gitlab, ArgoCD or Jenkins.
• You have good, working knowledge of automation & configuration management systems such as Ansible or Puppet.
• You have a background in systems administration.

You’ll love Bottomline because in everything we do we seek to delight our customers and we are passionate about building a company of which we can all be proud, and this starts with building amazing teams filled with team members that challenge you every day.

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