Senior Engineering Team Lead, SRE/DevOps

Job Description

We are Worldpay for Platforms. We have a rich 25-year history of being the author, scaler, and leader of integrated payments. Today our business serves over one thousand software companies and over 700K of their end-software users with their payment solutions. The needs of these end-users continue to evolve and the role of Integrated Payments and Payment facilitators in this market is unfolding rapidly. We at Worldpay for Platforms will be the partner of choice for an expanded suite of Value-Added Service products that seamlessly extend the existing Worldpay for Platforms experience.

About the role:

As a Sr. Engineering Team Lead (SRE/DevOps), you will help shape the future of the Payrix SRE/DevOps organization and mature our security and continuity processes while providing reliable and future-proof infrastructure components for all engineering teams. 

- Facilitating rollout strategies at scale with Gitlab CI and ArgoCD 

- Rolling out best practices around Kubernetes processes, SLIs/SLOs, Incident Management, Observability, Security, and Disaster Recovery to all Product-Engineering teams and driving adoption by them 

- As the whole Engineering organization transforms towards EDA, you will utilize your technical experience to translate and lead the way on what it means to the infrastructure team.

- Work in collaboration with our Platform Engineering team to drive the availability, up-time and reliability of our next-generation platform.

- Lead our infrastructure teams through the next scale phase (5-10x) 

- Own the relationship with our Infrastructure Vendors and manage budgets, cost efficiency. 

- Own our security, disaster recovery, business continuity plan, risk management & incident management processes.

- Coordinate across product and engineering teams to understand and widely socialize SRE priorities and processes across all products.

- Establish a stronger Platform-Product interface for feature tracking and prioritization and provide an opinionated and trusted voice for guiding these decisions. 

- As a Team Lead, you will help shape the future of the SRE/DevOps organization and mature our security and continuity processes while providing reliable and future-proof infrastructure components for all engineering teams. 

What you will need:

- The ideal candidate has a strong background as a BE Software Engineer and chose the SRE/DevOps route. Understands event/asynchronous architectures and has a proven record of running large-scale web/SaaS applications. 

- Understanding of the challenges of modern multi-tenancy SaaS software and how it impacts all areas of SRE ownership, from Observability, DR, DX, etc. 

- Understanding of how software runs from the request life cycle, asynchronous communication between services, persistence, caching layers and its complexities; you can translate systems design into infrastructure and bridge the gaps of understanding with the software engineering team.

- Critical thinking skills around architectural choices and their impact on data consistency, performance, scalability, and maintainability.

- Ability to communicate architectural choices clearly across all engineering teams. 

- 5+ years of experience as a people manager or technical leader with strong mentorship, career development, performance management, SDLC, OKRs setting, hiring skills.

- 8+ years of experience with distributed web applications and running 24/7 production environments.

- You value Data Consistency, and processing correctness, and have no fear to dive deep into any layer of the stack to find a production issue.

- Ability to “Think as a Platform”

- IaC skills with Pulumi

- Software development skills and the ability to be hands-on if necessary.

Added bonus if you have:

- Experience in the payments and/or fintech industry.

What we offer you:
A career at Worldpay for Platforms is more than just a job. It’s the change to shape the future of fintech. At Worldpay for Platforms, we offer you:

· A voice in the future of fintech

· Always on learning and development

· Collaborative work environment

· Opportunities to give back.

· Competitive salary and benefits

FIS is committed to providing its employees with an exciting career opportunity and competitive compensation. The pay range for this full-time position is $197,700.00 - $332,140.00 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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