Engineer Senior Lead, Cloud Infrastructure

Job Description

About FIS

We are FIS. Our technology powers the world’s 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 start learning, growing and making an impact with a career in fintech, we’d like to know: Are you FIS?

About the Role

The Cloud Foundations platform team builds and supports an Infrastructure-as-Code platform used by hundreds of software teams throughout FIS to build resilient, scalable, high performance financial applications.

As an Engineer Senior Lead, Cloud Infrastructure on this team, you will lead the design, delivery, and evolution of cloud infrastructure platforms that support mission‑critical financial services. You operate at scale, shaping cloud strategy while remaining hands‑on with complex engineering challenges. Success in this role is measured by platform reliability, security, cost efficiency, and the ability to enable teams to deliver faster with confidence.

What you will be doing

• Design and build scalable, secure, resilient, and reusable software-based cloud infrastructure platform components supporting high‑availability systems.

• Lead cloud engineering initiatives for across architecture, build, deployment, and operations.

• Define and enforce cloud standards, patterns, and operational best practices.

• Define and create automation using infrastructure‑as‑code and CI/CD pipelines.

• Partner with application teams to enable cloud‑native and hybrid solutions.

• Ensure infrastructure platform meets security, compliance, and regulatory requirements.

• Monitor performance, availability, and cost optimization across environments.

• Troubleshoot complex production issues and lead root‑cause analysis.

• Mentor senior engineers and guide technical decision‑making across teams.

What you bring

• Advanced cloud engineering experience delivering production platforms at enterprise scale.

• Hands-on experience architecting and building infrastructure in a large company using Terraform Enterprise, Harness, and Python.

• Strong expertise with public cloud services, networking, identity, and security controls.

• Hands‑on proficiency with infrastructure‑as‑code and configuration management tools.

• Experience building and operating containerized and orchestrated workloads.

• Proven ability to design for reliability, scalability, observability, and cost efficiency.

• Experience integrating cloud platforms with CI/CD and DevOps practices.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Bonus if you have

• Experience creating architectures for regulated or highly available transaction‑based systems.

• Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and resilience engineering practices.

• Experience with multi‑cloud or hybrid cloud environments.

• Familiarity with cloud security frameworks and compliance standards.

• Cloud platform or DevOps certifications.

What We Offer you

Opportunities to make an impact in fintech.

Personal and professional learning.

Inclusive, diverse work environment.

Resources to give back to your community.

Competitive salary and benefits.

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EEOC Statement

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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