Lead Site Reliability Engineer (Unix/Linux, Shell Scripting)- 6 to 12 Years- Bangalore

Location: IND BNGL FL2-3 TWR 3

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

We are FIS
At FIS, our technology powers the global 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 learn, grow, and make an impact in the world of fintech—ask yourself: Are you FIS?

About the Role

We are seeking a seasoned SRE Engineers with a strong and diverse technical background. As an IT architect, you consistently deliver high-quality solutions, tackle complex challenges, and apply best practices and modern technologies. You collaborate closely with your team to design and build robust, scalable, and maintainable software—avoiding short-term fixes in favor of long-term value.

About the Team

The Embedded Finance team at FIS is building the foundational infrastructure to deliver financial services—such as accounts, payments, cards, and expense management—directly within third-party software platforms. Leveraging cloud technologies like AWS and Azure, and programming languages including Java and Python, we’re creating API-first, embeddable solutions supported by developer-friendly tools, modern ledgers, operational consoles, and real-time observability. Our goal is to enable seamless integration of banking capabilities without the need for heavy upfront investment or long development cycles.

What you will be doing:

Site Reliability Engineer will play a critical role in driving innovation and growth for the Banking Solutions, Payments and Capital Markets business. In this role, the candidate will have the opportunity to make a lasting impact on the company's transformation journey, drive customer-centric innovation and automation, and position the organization as a leader in the competitive banking, payments and investment landscape.

 Your broad responsibilities will include owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific modernization projects and have hands-on experience with AWS technologies as well as broad know-how around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform.

• Design and maintain monitoring solutions for infrastructure, application performance, and user experience.

• Implement automation tools to streamline tasks, scale infrastructure, and ensure seamless deployments.

• Ensure application reliability, availability, and performance, minimizing downtime and optimizing response times.

• Lead incident response, including identification, triage, resolution, and post-incident analysis.

• Conduct capacity planning, performance tuning, and resource optimization.

• Collaborate with security teams to implement best practices and ensure compliance.

• Manage deployment pipelines and configuration management for consistent and reliable app deployments.

• Develop and test disaster recovery plans and backup strategies.

• Collaborate with development, QA, DevOps, and product teams to align on reliability goals and incident response processes.

• Participate in on-call rotations and provide 24/7 support for critical incidents.

 What you bring:

• Proficiency in development technologies, architectures, and platforms (web, mobile apps, API).

• Experience with AWS cloud platform and IaC tools.

• AWS CLI: used for a few tasks, changing AWS configurations, uploading/downloading files to s3, downloading kubectl context

• Terraform: defining the infrastructure as code, where all AWS resource configurations get configured/changed

• Kubectl: for communication with EKS

• Knowledge of monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog) and logging frameworks (Splunk, ELK Stack).

• Experience in incident management and post-mortem reviews.

• Strong troubleshooting skills for complex technical issues.

• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash) and automation tools (Terraform, Ansible).

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD,).

• Ownership approach to engineering and product outcomes.

• Excellent interpersonal communication, negotiation, and influencing skills.

 Must have the following Certifications:

• AWS Cloud Practitioner AWS Solutions Architect Associate OR AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

• Tech Stack:

• Linux, Git, Docker, Kubernetes /OpenShift, Helm, Jenkins, Harness, CheckMarx, SonarQube, Maven, Node, Artifactory, FlyWay, Splunk, KeyFatctor, HashiCorp Vault, CyberArk, SNOW, Jira, Confluence, Oracle DB, PostgreSQL DB, EC2, EKS, KMS, Secrets Manager (Stores passwords and enables auto-rotation), RDS: Postgres DB, Redis: In-Memory Cache, S3: object storage, Security Groups: Ingress/Egress Firewall configurations for each service, IAM: Access control to AWS resources, Route53, SFTP, Scheduler like Tivoli is nice to know. 

What we offer you:

• A work environment built on collaboration, flexibility and respect

• Competitive salary and attractive range of benefits designed to help support your lifestyle and wellbeing.

•  Varied and challenging work to help you grow your technical skillset.

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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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