Azure Cloud Engineer

Job Description

Every day, our teams innovate across the world of finance. We collaborate to work smarter, while making a difference. We believe in diversity and inclusivity, giving a voice to everyone on the team. And we celebrate our success together. If you want to make an impact in fintech, we’d like to know: Are you FIS?

NOTE:

1: This position is hybrid (3 days onsite) in our FIS Office locations in New York City (New York), Milwaukee (Wisconsin), Jacksonville (Florida) & Atlanta (Georgia).

2: Current and future sponsorship are not available for this position

About the Team:

FIS Cloud SRE team is looking to add an experienced, professional, and energetic Cloud engineer to our growing team. Successful candidates will have a solid background in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with a specialization in Terraform, focusing on designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure in Azure. We welcome candidates who possess strong leadership skills and want to work and collaborate across technology organizations in the FIS ecosystem. The candidate should have a strong sense of responsibility and ownership and can drive a complex problem to completion.

What you will be doing:

• Design, build, and document our next-gen Infrastructure as Code (IaC) ecosystem.

• Understand and implement a Well-Architected Framework to design and build high-performance, highly available, resilient, and secure cloud infrastructure.

• Contribute to platform automation efforts by identifying and automating repetitive tasks to reduce manual toil and errors.

• Deploy and enhance components of our environments, such as container services, load balancers, firewalls, databases, observability, alerting tools, etc.

• Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for Cloud (Azure) and Terraform.

• Maintain ongoing improvement of processes, and best practices to meet security, cost, and agility requirements.

• Contribute to and maintain design and process documentation.

• Continually seek opportunities to improve SLA/Uptime and minimize customer impacts.

• Understand, champion, and enforce security and compliance policies and procedures adhering to frameworks like PCI, NIST, CIS etc.

What you bring:

• Demonstrated experience with Cloud Services and experience supporting cloud-native solutions.

• In-depth knowledge and expertise in building cloud infrastructure in dynamic, high-volume and complex environments using IaC (Terraform Enterprise) and PaC (Sentinel) methodologies.

• Experience building high availability publicly facing ecosystems with 24/7 uptime and 99.99%+ SLA.

• Experience utilizing scripting languages to automate build and deployment activities. (Python, Bash/Shell)

• Broad knowledge of the architecture of enterprise-level information technology building blocks (e.g., Networking, Databases, Messaging, RBAC, etc.) and software platforms.

• Understanding of internet technologies and microservice-based architecture. (Web servers, encryption, XML, HTTP, Web Services, API’s, etc.)

• The ability to multi-task and work across a range of projects and issues with various timelines and priorities.

• Driven, dedicated contributor that expects excellence from him/herself and the team he/she leads.

• Understanding of Cloud databases such as PostgreSQL Flexible Server, etc.

• Understanding of messaging/event software such as Kafka ( Event Hubs).

• Experience in supporting and troubleshooting production-facing environments.

• Experience in supporting and troubleshooting Linux-based environments.

Added bonus if you have:

• HashiCorp Terraform certification is welcome.

• Knowledge of FIS products and services a plus but not required

• Knowledge of the Financial Industry preferred.

What we offer you:

At FIS, you can grow your career as far as you want to take it. Here’s what else we offer:

• Opportunities to make an impact in fintech

• Personal and professional learning

• Inclusive, diverse work environment