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VGS is the world's leader in payment tokenization, processing over 10 billion monthly interactions and touching a third of all e-commerce. The company provides a universal token vault and credential management platform trusted by Fortune 500 companies, merchants, banks, and fintechs.
As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer on the Platform Engineering team, you will serve as a technical leader architecting and scaling global cloud infrastructure for mission-critical, high-throughput payments applications. You will own key platform foundations and drive technical strategy, architecture, and reliability standards for designated domains within a multi-region AWS environment.
Key responsibilities include:
- Designing and optimizing multi-region, high-availability AWS infrastructure, evolving from hand-crafted environments to standardized, globally scalable fleets managed through code
- Driving resiliency and automation by replacing manual toil with self-healing infrastructure using GitOps, modern CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure-as-Code
- Building end-to-end observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry to proactively identify bottlenecks and own incident management
- Force-multiplying engineering velocity by partnering with Product, Security, and Core Engineering teams to design "Golden Paths" that reduce friction for feature teams
- Architecting and operating high-performance, low-latency private connectivity for external customers
- Mentoring the organization on modern SRE practices and engineering excellence
Required qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience taking ownership of outcomes in complex, large-scale distributed systems within mission-critical environments
- Advanced proficiency in AWS and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, and GitOps workflows (Flux, Argo, GitHub Actions)
- Strong coding skills in Python, Go, or Bash for infrastructure automation
- Deep experience implementing observability solutions at scale
- Solid understanding of cloud security, API Gateways, load balancing, and network isolation
Nice-to-have experience includes tokenization, payment processing, cryptology, security products, Kafka/MSK, and a BA/BS degree.
