Context

Worldline is the largest European player in payment services and the fourth largest player worldwide, organized around 4 global business lines (GBL’s) : Merchant Services (MS), Terminals, Solutions & Services (TSS), Financial Services (FS) and Mobility & E-transactional services (MTS)

A key part of the TSS GBL’s strategic transformation is the build-up and delivery of a Payments Platform as a Service (PPaaS). https://www.ppaas.com/

PPaaS ambition is to build a world-class cloud-based Payments Platform as a Service (PPaaS) that empowers our ecosystem of clients and partners to offer their merchant customers innovative payment and commerce solutions available anytime, anywhere. PPaaS aims at bringing a solution to the complexity of managing and integrating with multiple players and value-added service providers, regionally and globally.

You will join a leading digital transformation company, combining the advantages of a large structure (in terms of resources, expertise, and customer proximity) with the start-up mindset & way of working (innovation, flexibility, and agile organization at scale).

You will be part of building a market disruptive solution, working on cutting-edge technology projects with rich interactions in an international environment.

Have a look at PPaaS !  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFDQyS4QFOo

Scope

You will partner with our Engineering leads to evolve our long-term technical strategy and guide the team through the realization of PPaaS’ solutions. Helping us level up the PPaaS application infrastructure, establish/improve internal tools and development environments will be critical priorities for you in the role.

You will lead our global DEVOPS team, supporting them with day to day problem-solving, system and feature design, translation of technical designs into action plans and help them deliver against their overall goals and responsibilities. 

Responsibilities

• Define the vision and mission of  the DEVOPS organization aligned with the PPaaS platform principles of agnosticity and scalability across global markets.
• Manage our infrastructure, using infrastructure as code, dockerisation principles and standard methodologies to orchestrate our sophisticated product suite and continuously seek out new opportunities for efficiency.
• Build a ‘go-forward’ plan to improve auto deployment, code promotion, environment resiliency and identify automation options to create the environments and make CI/CD pipelines more predictable and manageable.
• Maintain close working relationships with Product Owner(s) and Product managers to drive delivery alignment and teamwork.
• Inspire, lead and manage the Devops team members in the regions where PPaaS operates.

Experience / Skills

• 10+ years of DevOps experience

• Experience of at least 5 years in leading/coordinating team members in different regions
• Strong leadership skills – you have worked on multiple simultaneous high-impact projects, including facilitating design discussions, breaking down plans into work items, and mentoring team members.
• Solid expertise in the architecture, building and maintenance of tools stack to improve developer efficiency and code reliability.
• Ability to manage the team’s backlog, effectively prioritize and ensure E2E project management/oversight.  
• Proven experience in advocating for technical initiatives using the DEVOPS tools stack.

Technical skills:

• Proficiency in Cloud - Google Cloud Platform, K8S, Docker, Helm Chart ,Ansible / Terraform / Python / Bash, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Flux CD, Istio, Gloo Edge
• Experience in deploying Kafka, Grafana, Prometheus in K8S as operator within the cluster.
• Expertise on Linux systems and containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Solid understanding of infrastructure security (https, SSH, 2FA, etc.) and modern networking for private cloud and public Internet services
• Hands-on experience with GitOps, Infrastructure as a code
• Ability to write and maintain Terraform manifests, Ansible playbooks, bash scripts, debug GCP issues

Additional important skills:

• Strong written and oral communication skills in English.
• Strong adaptability and flexibility  
• Keen to work in an Agile/SAFE environment.
• Strong team spirit, supportive of other’s contributions.

REASONS TO JOIN US !

You will work for a company that does everything possible to help you develop your potential and grow professionally (through personal development programs and training).