MFT & Messaging Engineer

This is Adyen

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice.

For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

MFT & Messaging Engineer

The Role

As a member of the Platform Banking team, you will play a critical role in ensuring the control, security, and reliability of our global data movement. Our infrastructure facilitates the transfer of thousands of files daily across all continents, serving as the backbone for Adyen’s financial operations.

In this position, you will be responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of our file transfer systems including setup, configuration, maintenance, and continuous optimization. Your work ensures that the foundational connections supporting our high-volume transfers remain robust and scalable.

While the primary focus is on IBM Sterling Connect:Direct, our ecosystem also includes IBM MQ clusters and SWIFT communication protocols. Proven expertise in these platforms is highly valued, as you will contribute to the broader stability and evolution of our messaging and connectivity stack. The core responsibilities for this role are:

• Infrastructure Management: Installing and configuring Connect:Direct nodes (PNODEs and SNODEs) and maintaining network maps and initialization parameters (userfile.cfg, sysacl.cfg).
• Process Development: Creating and troubleshooting C:D Process scripts for automated file transfers, including scheduling, checkpoint restarts, and post-processing tasks.
• Security Administration: Managing Secure Plus configurations, including SSL/TLS certificates, key stores, and certificate revocation lists (CRL) to ensure encrypted data exchange.
• Performance & Troubleshooting: Diagnosing connectivity failures and transfer errors, and optimizing throughput using data compression and performance tuning.
• Network Integration: Experience in working with load balancers and/or consul is preferred.

Essential Technical Skills

• MFT Platforms / Messaging Platforms: IBM Sterling Connect:Direct, Control Center, File Agent, Secure Proxy, IBM MQ
• Operating Systems: Linux
• Networking: TCP/IP protocols, Firewalls, SSL/TLS certificates
• Scripting: C:D Process Language, Yaml, Unix Shell Scripting (Bash), Terraform
• Automation Tools: Puppet, Ansible
• Monitoring Tools: Prometheus / Grafana
• Security: SSL/TLS, X.509 Certificates, FIPS 140-2 compliance
• Integration: IBM MQ

Soft Skills

Clear, direct communication is a hallmark of our business culture.

• Active Listening: Fully concentrating on others to build trust and prevent project misunderstandings.
• Conciseness: Professionals are encouraged to be direct and "get to the point" quickly during work discussions.
• Self-Management: The ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines without constant supervision, and handle a busy workload efficiently.
• Working within Adyen is rarely a solo endeavor; it requires working across diverse, multidisciplinary, and often distributed teams.
• Conflict Resolution: Addressing disagreements professionally and focusing on solutions rather than personal friction.
• Empathy: Understanding different working styles and cultural perspectives within a globalized workforce.
• With technology evolving rapidly, "career durability" depends on the ability to learn new tools without resistance and stay productive during shifting company priorities. Adyen’s “Own your Career” part of the formula applies here.

This hybrid role is based out of our Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.