Cloud Systems Administrator
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Job Responsibilities
We are seeking an experienced Cloud Systems Administrator to manage and continuously enhance highly available, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure supporting mission-critical payment processing platforms.
This role is responsible for ensuring operational reliability, performance optimization, security compliance, and automation maturity across multi-cloud environments that power real-time transaction processing, merchant integrations, settlement workflows, and financial reporting systems. The position also contributes to modernization initiatives including intelligent automation and AI-assisted operational capabilities to improve system resilience and engineering productivity.
Key Responsibilities
Cloud Infrastructure Operations & Reliability
- Manage and maintain cloud infrastructure environments across major providers such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure.
- Ensure high availability and performance of systems supporting transaction routing, payment processing, and backend platform services.
- Implement capacity planning, scaling strategies, and infrastructure performance tuning.
- Support multi-zone and disaster recovery architectures aligned with strict SLA and uptime targets.
- Other duties as assigned
- Monitor infrastructure health, application dependencies, and transaction performance indicators.
- Troubleshoot production incidents and perform root cause analysis with preventive improvement actions.
- Improve operational readiness through automation of routine maintenance and infrastructure recovery workflows.
- Collaborate with DevOps and engineering teams to improve deployment stability and environment consistency.
- Develop scripts and tooling to automate provisioning, configuration management, patching, and environment validation.
- Support Infrastructure as Code practices using tools such as Terraform or cloud-native automation frameworks.
- Improve operational efficiency by standardizing environment builds and configuration baselines.
- Maintain accurate system documentation, architecture diagrams, and operational runbooks.
- Enforce cloud security best practices including identity access management, encryption, network segmentation, and secure configuration standards.
- Support compliance initiatives aligned with PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and financial regulatory expectations.
- Assist internal and external audit activities by maintaining traceability of infrastructure changes and system configurations.
- Participate in vulnerability remediation and security hardening programs.
- Monitor cloud resource utilization and identify opportunities for performance optimization and cost efficiency.
- Implement governance controls such as tagging standards, lifecycle policies, and rightsizing strategies.
- Provide operational insights into infrastructure usage trends and resource consumption patterns.
- Leverage AI-powered operational tooling to enhance monitoring insights, anomaly detection, and incident diagnostics.
- Contribute to AI use cases such as:
- intelligent log correlation and automated incident summarization
- predictive workload scaling recommendations
- infrastructure configuration optimization suggestions
- automated runbook generation and operational guidance
- cloud cost anomaly detection and efficiency insights
- Collaborate with DevOps and R&D teams to prototype intelligent automation workflows that reduce manual operational effort.
- Promote responsible adoption of AI tooling with consideration for security, compliance, and operational validation.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
- Minimum 3–6 years experience in cloud infrastructure or systems administration roles.
- Hands-on experience managing production cloud environments supporting high-availability applications.
- Strong understanding of:
- cloud networking and system architecture principles
- Linux system administration
- distributed system reliability fundamentals
- scripting or automation practices
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python or Bash.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work effectively under operational pressure.
- Experience working in Payment Gateway, FinTech, Banking, or high-transaction environments.
- Familiarity with container platforms such as Docker or Kubernetes.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools.
- Exposure to observability platforms and operational analytics tooling.
- Experience supporting regulated production environments.
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