Principal DevOps Engineer

Job Description

We are FIS. Our technology powers the world’s economy and our teams bring innovation to life. We champion diversity to deliver the best products and solutions for our colleagues, clients and communities. If you’re ready to start learning, growing and making an impact with a career in fintech, we’d like to know: Are you FIS? 

About the role: 

Reporting to the Head of Digital DevOps, the Principal DevOps Engineer will play a critical role in driving innovation and growth for the Banking Solutions business. In a leadership role in the Digital Technology organization, you will be responsible for transforming our platforms and driving the development and implementation of next generation digital products. With a focus on digital software pipelines and deployments, you will collaborate closely with product leaders, and other stakeholders to align product milestones and deliver innovative digital applications and experiences. In this role, the candidate will have the opportunity to make a lasting impact on the company's digital transformation journey, drive customer-centric innovation, and position the organization as a leader in the competitive digital banking landscape. 

What you will be doing: 

· Partnering closely with the broader Digital Engineering organization, and Banking product organization to deliver a modern, scalable, devops platform as the backbone for next generation solutions that will drive the digital products into faster and higher quality releases.  

· Keeping up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies in the digital space, bringing innovative ideas and best practices to drive continuous improvement.  

· Identify opportunities for use of new DevOps technologies or platforms in order to push for more continuous delivery of small, fast deployments, documenting and driving the implementation and adoption of those platforms. 

· Identify production stability concerns via break point, vulnerability scanning and impact analysis, and design and develop implement remediation plans to address these concerns.  

· Collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and manage dependencies in the digital roadmap, prioritizing key foundational mobile features and enhancements that align with the company's vision.  

· Driving and exemplifying engineering best practices and standards, while managing technology debt. Ensure the company continues to drive process improvement and migration to modern architecture and infrastructure.  

· Design, develop, and implement documentation or tools to communicate DevOps best practices from the centralized team and enable development teams to reach full ownership of their path to production and allow them to interface with the DevOps platform to self-service a wide range of deployment needs. 

· Design and implement a security framework covering infrastructure and applications, processes and compliance with appropriate regulations and standards including ISO 27001/27002, SSAE 16/SAS-70 SOX, PCI.  

· Research, design, develop and document solutions implement solutions for fault, performance, capacity, and configuration management for various data center operations 

· Establish milestones for necessary contributions from departments and develop processes to facilitate their collaboration.  

· Mentor and train other engineers throughout the company and seek to continually improve processes companywide.  

What you will need: 

· Experience developing engineering applications for a large corporation.  

· Demonstrated project development and leadership skills.  

· CI/CD Pipeline Orchestration using tools such as GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CD 

· Deep understanding of emerging concepts within the DevOps space (e.g. feature flagging, platform engineering). 

· Demonstrated ability to develop, communicate, and roll out a DevOps strategy. 

· Excellent communicator, highly innovative with a low ego, capable of motivating and energizing direct reports and peers, with a proven ability to create a highly collaborative working environment. 

· Deep understanding and commitment to software engineering principles and processes (e.g., Lean, Agile, DevOps) and continuous improvement through measurement.  

· Deep understanding of security and compliance for managing data, ideally in a regulated industry.  

· Experience with containerization technologies, Docker, Kubernetes, etc  

· Configuration Management with tools such as Puppet and Ansible  

· Public Cloud services and pipelines, including AWS  

FIS is committed to providing its employees with an exciting career opportunity and competitive compensation. The pay range for this full-time position is $138,600.00 - $232,850.00 and reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for this position based on the posted role, level, and location. Within the range, actual individual starting pay is determined additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Any changes in work location will also impact actual individual starting pay. Please consult with your recruiter about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

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EEOC Statement

FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here

For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Sourcing Model

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

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