AWS Cloud Engineer Senior Lead

AWS Cloud Engineer Specialist

Bangalore

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

This position is required to support the Debit & Pre-Paid / International Issuing Hub (IIH) Migration Program. The role will be instrumental in establishing the AWS-based IIH platform and enabling the delivery of revenue-generating change requests for the newly established Debit & Pre-Paid (D&PP)/IIH environment.

The successful candidate will play a key role in:

• Building and configuring the AWS-based IIH/Episode6 platform to support onboarding of strategic clients.

• Supporting card migration initiatives from the existing Debit & Pre-Paid platform to the IIH/Episode6 AWS platform.

• Ensuring PCI compliance, supporting audit requirements, and implementing security remediation activities to address application and infrastructure vulnerabilities in line with internal compliance standards.

What You Will Be Doing

• Design, build, and maintain cloud-native payment solutions on AWS.

• Configure and enhance the International Issuing Hub (IIH)/Episode6 platform.

• Support strategic client onboarding and implementation activities.

• Execute and support card migration programs from legacy platforms to the AWS-based issuing ecosystem.

• Develop scalable services and APIs using TypeScript and Python.

• Collaborate closely with architecture, integration, and business stakeholders to deliver platform capabilities.

• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.

• Drive DevOps best practices across development, testing, deployment, and production support.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, Bitbucket, and Harness.

• Ensure platform security, PCI compliance, audit readiness, and vulnerability remediation.

• Contribute as a techno-functional SME within Payments and Cards domain initiatives.

• Leverage AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot to enhance engineering productivity and quality.

What You Bring :

• Overall experience of minimum 8+ years

• Strong Payments and Cards domain expertise with techno-functional experience.

• Experience working directly with clients and business stakeholders.

• Hands-on experience with AWS services including:

  • AWS Lambda

  • API Gateway

  • IAM

  • DynamoDB

  • Kafka

• Strong software development experience utilizing:

  • TypeScript

  • Python

• Hands-on DevOps delivery experience.

• Expertise implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.

• Experience with:

  • GitHub (Repositories, Actions, Runners)

  • Bitbucket

  • Harness CI/CD

  • Jira

• Strong understanding of machine-to-machine authentication and authorization using OAuth2.

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

• Ability to work effectively under tight deadlines in a collaborative team environment.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Experience collaborating with architecture and integration teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Episode6 or similar issuing/payment platforms.

• Experience delivering card migration programs.

• Exposure to PCI-regulated environments.

• Experience using AI coding tools, including GitHub Copilot, in a specification-driven development environment.