Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer

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!

Maverick Payments is a family-owned and privately held full-service payment provider. Located in Calabasas, California, Maverick has 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.

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, Express Route/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 Power Shell, Python, and CI/CD pipelines (Azure Dev Ops and/or Git Hub 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.

• 3 - 6 years of hands‑on experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, network engineering, or a closely…