Job Description

Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS you'll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.

About the team

FIS are on a really exciting journey re-engineering our core payments platform to be more cost effective, scalable and cloud ready utilizing the latest cutting-edge technologies. This journey will require the very best engineering talent to get us there as it's not just a technical change, it's a cultural change as well.

Worldpay is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help join a new SRE function within giving you the chance to shape best practices as we migrate core platform to a cloud based micro-services architecture.

What you will be doing

- Work with engineering teams based in London, Bucharest and India to design, deploy, maintain Worldpay services, troubleshoot software and infrastructure issues, consult and innovate on core platform design and architecture, and help coordinate incident response.

- Help shape and build our next gen operations and deployment infrastructure

- Perform design, infrastructure, and process reviews to help engineering teams in shipping reliable systems

- Advocate for and apply best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence and efficiency.

- Ruthlessly automate, improve and evolve our systems.

- Monitor, troubleshoot, and remediate platform issues and alerts.

- Engage with engineering team on-calls, helping to debug, improve, and optimize critical backend services

What you will bring

- Proven experience operating large scale critical software systems in production

- Excellent Linux system administration skills

- Significant experience in infrastructure automation and configuration management using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible,

Spinnaker, etc.

- Experience with monitoring best practices and tooling such as ELK, Splunk, Grafana, Graphite, Prometheus, AppDynamics, Dynatrace etc.

- Programming or scripting with Bash, Python, or similar languages

- Experience using Cloud services such as Amazon Web Service (AWS) or Microsoft Azure

Experience with container-based applications using Docker, Kubernetes or OpenShift.

Good understanding of SRE practices especially within a pipeline-based application architecture

- Experience building CI/CD pipelines using Atlassian Jira/Confluence, Git/Gerrit, GitHub, Nexus, Ansible, Jenkins

- Track record of designing systems for High Availability, Scalability and Disaster Recovery

- Experience supporting live services and managing service outages

- Application Performance Monitoring and Root Cause Analysis

- Strong communication and organization skills to work with our international teams.

Good to have

- Agile development methodologies

- Hands-on experience of Scrum and Kanban

- Good requirements engineering and business analysis experience.

- Experience working within the financial services/payments industry

- Production-scale cluster administration of Kafka, Apache Spark or similar.

- Kubernetes monitoring and tooling e.g. Prometheus, Helm, Istio.