POS Implementation Engineer - Linux (12 months contract)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 1, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 14, 2026. Cognizant scores A on the Alion truth index.
Responsibilities
Establishing, configuring, and maintaining customer-specific lab environments.
Installing and configuring POS, Self-Checkout (SCO), retail applications, hardware, and peripherals.
Managing software deployments, upgrades, patches, operating systems, databases, application services, and network connectivity.
Integrating retail applications with external systems, payment terminals, peripherals, and third-party services.
Performing functional, system integration, regression, and end-to-end testing, including defect investigation and root-cause analysis.
Working directly with customers during workshops, technical discussions, troubleshooting, demonstrations, acceptance testing, and technical handovers.
Supporting pilot deployments and operational readiness, including installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and technical runbooks.
Developing scripts and utilities using PowerShell, Python, or Bash to automate installation, configuration, testing, and deployment activities.
Qualifications and Skills
The ideal profile has 4-8 years of relevant experience
Technical implementation, systems integration, software deployment, technical engineering, or customer-facing solution delivery.
Strong knowledge of Linux Administration, SQL databases, TCP/IP, DNS, scripting, testing, troubleshooting.
Good understanding on Git, Docker, Kubernetes and DevOps pipeline
Good understanding on REST APIs, JSON/XML and technical documentation.
Good understanding on Cloud like AZURE or AWS
Retail technology experience, particularly POS/SCO and payment or peripheral systems, is preferred.
Strong English communication is required, and Cantonese proficiency would be advantageous for customer engagement in Hong Kong.