Description
VGS is building the trust infrastructure for a new era of commerce. As commerce becomes agentic, payments are increasing dramatically in volume, speed, and complexity, and the companies driving that shift need a foundation they can fully trust.
That's where VGS comes in. We're the world's leader in payment tokenization, trusted by the most innovative AI and Fortune 500 companies, merchants, banks, and fintechs to power modern payments and agentic commerce. We store more than 9 billion tokens and process more than 10 billion monthly interactions, touching a third of all e-commerce.
Trusted Engineering That Matters
Engineering at VGS
VGS is building the platform powering agentic commerce and global payments infrastructure. VGS Engineering is the pillar that supports that vision. We create a platform that is an indispensable, ubiquitous component of our partners' payments and security infrastructure. We build and operate high-scale, reliable, and resilient systems that manage mission-critical payment data across the globe.
Our Environment & Culture
- Modern Tooling as Leverage: We value speed and impact. To ensure nothing slows you down, we arm you with a highly consistent modern stack (e.g. AWS, Kubernetes, Java, TypeScript, Python) and world-class AI-augmented SDLC tooling.
- Ownership of Outcomes: Scaling global payments infrastructure requires individuals who take personal ownership of outcomes from day one.
- Mission-Critical Accountability: We power payments infrastructure for global market leaders, making system trust and integrity our core deliverable.
About the Role
As a Sr. Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps), you will serve as a key technical practitioner on our Platform Engineering team, taking personal ownership of our cloud platform, CI/CD pipelines, and internal developer platforms. In this role, you will help build, scale, and fortify global cloud infrastructure designed to handle mission-critical, high-throughput payment applications with zero downtime.
What You'll Do
- Build Immutable, Self-Healing Platform Foundations: Design, build, and optimize high-availability AWS infrastructure.
- Accelerate CI/CD & Developer Velocity: Own, modernize, and scale our continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
- Drive Resiliency & GitOps Automation: Replace manual toil with self-healing, automated infrastructure using GitOps methodologies.
- Deep Observability & Operational Rigor: Configure and maintain comprehensive telemetry tooling.
- Security & Network Engineering: Embed security guardrails and compliance practices directly into deployment workflows.
- Platform Enablement & Mentorship: Partner strategically with product and engineering teams to drive platform adoption.
What You Bring
- Ownership at Scale: 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure roles.
- Containerization & GitOps Orchestration: Advanced experience with Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, and modern GitOps deployment workflows.
- CI/CD Pipeline Mastery: Proven track record building, optimizing, and securing automated CI/CD deployment pipelines.
- Automation & Scripting: Strong coding/scripting skills in Python, Go, or Bash.
- Observability & SRE Practice: Hands-on experience implementing end-to-end telemetry and monitoring stacks.
- Growth Mindset & High Agency: An innate drive to eliminate manual friction, automate repetitive tasks, and acquire whatever missing context is needed to solve complex platform challenges end-to-end.