Exciting Opportunities at Maverick Payments!

Join our fast-paced, growing company and further your career with Maverick Payments, where you can thrive, your ideas are valued, and your colleagues feel more like family than coworkers!

About Us:

Maverick Payments is a family-owned and privately held full-service payment provider. Located in Calabasas, California, Maverickhas created innovative technology designed for sales organizations, such as ISO’s and ISV’s, looking to monetize payments by reselling our white-labeled payments stack. Our payment products include merchant acquiring services, a proprietary gateway, ACH processing, fraud & chargeback tools, analytics, and other value-add services. Maverick’s team includes underwriting, risk management, compliance & legal, technology & product development, on-boarding, customer support, information technology, and more.

About the Position:

Reporting to the VP, Information Technology, the Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer to partner with our current engineer to bring complementary depth in cloud and on-premises networking, Azure platform engineering, and infrastructure-as-code. This position will be responsible for the reliability, security, and scalability of our Azure environment, Enterprise M365 capabilities, and our on-premises infrastructure The Cloud Engineer is expected to design and operate infrastructure in a manner that protects cardholder data and supports continuous audit readiness.

Design, deploy, and operate Azure platform services: compute, storage, networking, identity, monitoring, and governance (management groups, subscriptions, policy, RBAC).
Implement and maintain landing zone patterns, naming and tagging standards, and cost-optimization practices.
Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and/or Bicep; implement CI/CD for infrastructure changes.
Operate and tune monitoring, alerting, and logging using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and related tooling.
Own design and operations for cloud and on-premises networking: VNets, subnets, NSGs, route tables, peering, ExpressRoute/VPN, hybrid connectivity, DNS, firewalls, load balancers, and WAN/LAN.
Implement and maintain network segmentation appropriate for PCI DSS scope; partner with Information Security on network controls.
Troubleshoot complex hybrid networking issues across cloud, hosted private cloud, and on-prem environments.
Partner on the design, operations, and lifecycle of our hosted private cloud environment and remaining on-prem infrastructure.
Maintain backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity capabilities; participate in DR testing.
Manage server, virtualization, and storage platforms in partnership with the existing Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer.
Deliver high availability and performance for production and corporate workloads through proactive engineering, capacity planning, and operational excellence.
Implement and maintain security baselines, hardening standards, and patching; partner closely with the Security Engineer and Information Security Officer.
Provide engineering evidence and remediation for PCI DSS and SOC 2 Type 2 audits.
Automate repetitive operational tasks using PowerShell, Python, and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions).
Contribute to runbooks, knowledge articles, and self-service capabilities that standardize execution, improving operations and reducing mean time to recovery.
Supporting specialized projects on an as-needed basis as directed by the VP, Information Technology.
Support as-hoc tasks and projects as required by departmental and company needs.
Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

3 - 6 years of hands-on experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, network engineering, or a closely related role.
Strong Azure experience across compute, networking, identity, and monitoring; comfortable building and operating production Azure workloads.
Experience managing and operating within a M365 E5 class environment across the services available in the suite.
Strong networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, routing, switching, VLANs, DNS, firewalls, VPN, and hybrid connectivity; experience designing and troubleshooting non-trivial network topologies.
Strong understanding of privileged access governance and hands-on experience implementing it (PAM/PIM/JIT/JEA).
Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform and/or Bicep) and source-controlled infrastructure workflows.
Scripting proficiency in PowerShell and/or Python.
Practical understanding of security and compliance constructs in a regulated environment (PCI DSS, SOC 2, HIPAA, or similar).
Strong troubleshooting skills, ownership mindset, and ability to operate calmly under incident conditions.

Preferred:

Experience in payments, fintech, or another regulated industry.
Experience with hosted private cloud, colocation, or hybrid product environments.
Experience with virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V), storage platforms, and enterprise backup/DR tooling.
Experience with network and security tooling such as Azure Firewall, Palo Alto, Fortinet, SonicWall, Cisco, or comparable.
Relevant certifications such as Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104), Azure Network Engineer Associate (AZ-700), Azure Solutions Architect Expert, CCNA/CCNP, or equivalent.

What We Offer:

Competitive Salary, Bonuses and Incentives.
Comprehensive employer sponsored health, vision, and dental insurance programs.
Paid time off, Paid Sick and Paid Holidays.
401K plan with up to a 3% matching contribution.
Commitment to Career Development and Advancement.
Employee Recognition Programs
Vibrant Office Culture, Team Building, Birthdays, Work Anniversaries, Snacks, and more!

Pay Range: $125K-$140K

This position will report onsite to our offices in Calabasas, CA

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