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. 

• Delivering high-quality and high-performance technology solutions to our clients and customers for all product areas in the Digital Solutions business. 

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

• Lead the creation and maintenance of automated scripts that will build, configure, deploy, and test applications deployed to different environments. 

• Provide Dev, Test, and Production environment operational support. 

• 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 facilitate Technical Support team responsibilities. 

• Design, develop, and implement documentation or tools appropriate to the maintenance of application platforms. 

• 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

• Analyze current technology utilized within the company and develop steps and processes to improve and expand upon them. 

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

• Assist other department engineers in creating practical demonstrations of proposed solutions and demonstrating them to other team members. 

• Provide detailed specifications for proposed solutions including materials, workforce and time necessary. 

• Provide clear goals for all areas of a project and develop steps to oversee their timely execution. 

• Work closely with engineering professionals within the company to maintain hardware and software needed for projects to be completed efficiently. 

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

• Work alongside digital delivery teams to successfully monitor progress and implementation of initiatives. 

What you will need:

• Experience developing engineering applications for a large corporation. 

• Demonstrated project development and leadership skills. 

• Current understanding of best practices regarding system security measures 

• Preferred degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or similar relevant field preferred 

• Deep understanding and commitm