Senior AWS Engineer

Job Description

Are you ready to unleash your full potential?  We’re looking for people who are passionate about payments to chart Worldpay’s path to being the largest and most-loved payments company in the world.

About the team:

Worldpay Cloud Data Platform team provides WorldPay  big Data capabilities including large scale data processing, analytics, fraud platforms, machine learning engineering, stream processing and data insights. Worldpay Cloud Data Platform team help maintain and advance cloud data platforms and services to build data products powering our business services and customers.  

About the role:

We are seeking a talented and experienced AWS Engineer with a strong background in DevOps to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have at least 6 years of hands-on experience in DevOps practices, cloud infrastructure management, automation, and CI/CD pipeline development. This role will involve collaborating with development, operations, and quality assurance teams to streamline and optimize our software delivery processes

What you will be doing:

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure seamless integration and deployment of applications

• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure) for high availability, scalability, and performance

• Automate system provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment using tools such as Terraform, Helm Charts, and Kubernetes

• Monitor and troubleshoot system performance, ensuring uptime and reliability

• Collaborate with development teams to implement best practices for software development, testing, and deployment

• Enhance security practices and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations

• Participate in code reviews, architecture design discussions, and contribute to technical documentation

• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies to continuously improve our DevOps practices

What you bring:

• Minimum of 6 years of experience in a DevOps role or similar

• Proficiency in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud

• Strong experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes

• Hands-on experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef)

• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell

• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or similar

• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)

• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail

• Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment

• Hands-on experience in administering Snowflake in AWS

• Experience with AWS CLI and Networking

• Experience with architecting and maintaining high availability production systems

• Experience with developing monitoring architecture and implementing monitoring agents, dashboards, escalations, and alerts

• Knowledge of security controls for the public cloud (encryption of data in motion/rest and key management)

• Demonstrated knowledge and hands-on experience with AWS alerting/monitoring tools

• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform

Added bonus if you have:

• AWS certification

What we offer you:

• A competitive salary and benefits

• A variety of career development tools, resources and opportunities

• The chance to work on some of the most challenging, relevant issues in the payment industry

• Time to support charities and give back in your community

FIS is committed to providing its employees with an exciting career opportunity and competitive compensation. The pay range for this full-time position is $105,070.00 - $176,520.00 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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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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