Senior SRE Lead – AWS, Kubernetes & Terraform

Senior SRE Lead – AWS, Kubernetes & Terraform – 10+ Yrs of Experience – Bangalore location

About the Team:

This position is under our CTO org to support SRE functions for innovation and growth for the Banking Solutions, Payments and Capital Markets business. This role will be reported under our Wealth and Retirement team.

FIS empowers small to large retirement plan providers around the globe with a comprehensive, integrated suite of retirement solutions. Our industry-leading offer includes an extensive selection of technology and services. From record keeping technology and plan administration and compliance solutions to financial wellness that supports all aspects of retirement services business and positions our clients for future growth. We are looking for a talented resource, who is comfortable working multiple appropriately prioritized issues and/or projects at a time. One who desires to be a part of this global dynamic retirement technology team where they will grow personally, technically and professionally.

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 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, Key Factor, 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 multifaceted role with a high degree of responsibility

• Broad opportunities for professional education and personal development

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits

• Access to a wide range of career development tools, resources, and growth opportunities

• A collaborative and inclusive work environment where FIS can be your final career step

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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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