Production Support Engineer - Non-Day Shift Hours

Amount; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Amount is looking for a Production Support Engineer to manage production issues efficiently. This role involves troubleshooting technical issues, managing incident lifecycles, and ensuring stakeholder communication. Successful candidates will have SQL skills, experience in incident management, and a collaborative mindset.

This position operates in a 24/7 work environment with specific work hours in the evening and night. Compensation ranges from $80,000 to $90,000, reflecting the importance of this role in their operations.

Qualifications

• Technical and/or engineering background with advanced DB SQL skills.
• 2+ years of experience coordinating major incidents.
• Experience managing internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage high-priority issues to resolution.
• Drive incident resolution and lead conversations with cross-functional groups.
• Ensure stakeholders are updated according to SLAs.

Skills

SQL

Incident management

Root cause analysis

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Tools

Postman

Jira

Confluence

Sentry

PagerDuty

Job description

FIS® Amount™ provides a unified digital origination and decisioning platform that helps financial institutions meet the moment. Designed to scale with banks and credit unions at any stage of their digital journey, FIS® Amount™ delivers a seamless, digital-first experience—streamlining everything from loan origination to deposit account opening. With built-in fraud orchestration and risk management, FIS® Amount™ enables financial institutions to control risk across any product while optimizing performance and enhancing security. Our flexible, modular platform is backed by enterprise-grade infrastructure and compliance, allowing institutions to launch new offerings in months, not years. Learn more at www.fisglobal.com.

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?

A DAY IN THE LIFE

The Production Support Engineering team plays a key role at FIS® Amount™ by ensuring production issues are managed efficiently and effectively. You will manage high-priority issues to resolution following industry best practices. You’ll troubleshoot, fix, and apply workarounds to resolve technical issues across multiple platforms. Each day, you’ll interact with every aspect of our organization to find the best solution for our partner. Management of ticket queues, monitoring for issues and post-release validation are also a large part of this role, all while meeting our partners’ SLA requirements.

Team

This role interacts with nearly every group within the organization, including engineering, product, QA, customer success and others.

Work Hours

This role supports our 24/7 staffing model. We have positions open with working hours of 4:00 PM–11:00 PM CST or 11:00 PM–7:00 AM CST.

Salary

$80,000-$90,000 base salary

Similar job titles

Production Support, Production Support Analyst, Incident Manager, Incident Coordinator, IT Major Incident Manager, Application Support Engineer, Support Engineer

WHAT WE'LL TRUST YOU TO DELIVER

• Technical ability to deep dive into issues by querying tables, analyzing data and problem‑solving
• Prioritization and triage of incoming requests/issues
• Drive incident resolution and lead conversations with cross‑functional groups. Ask the right questions to help determine impact/priority and the correct route for resolution. Oversee a technical bridge, if required. Emphasize performing root cause analysis (RCA), documentation, and run‑book development.
• Management of all incidents through the incident management lifecycle
• Documentation of all relevant events, getting status reports while driving decision‑making and resolution
• Ensure stakeholders are updated according to predefined service level agreements
• Completion and ownership of the postmortem with appropriate root cause analysis performed
• Improvement suggestions to capture preventative measures that will avoid recurrences of incidents
• Investigate patterns that indicate larger overall issues, even if we don’t have the solution.
• Compilation of metrics on a weekly and monthly basis. Maintain dashboards for service incidents and ad hoc reporting as requested
• Management of ticket queues, client interaction, and maintenance of batch jobs
• Play an active role during critical incidents which may occur outside of normal business hours. Nights, weekends, and holidays on an on‑call rotation basis is a must
• Creation of runbooks or standard operating procedures (SOP) so we can all learn from each other and add to our knowledge base

WHAT YOU LIKELY BRING TO THE TABLE

• Technical and/or engineering background with advanced DB SQL skills, including table joins and advanced queries
• Experience with Postman, AI, and agents
• Experience working with development teams in a fast‑paced environment
• Basic knowledge or interest of any programming language such as Java, Python or Ruby
• 2 years of experience coordinating and executing major incidents, with demonstrated capacity to lead under pressure
• Experience managing a wide spectrum of internal and external stakeholders, collaborating with cross‑functional teams like QA, Customer Success, Developers, DevOps, and SRE
• Worked in an organization with a complex business environment
• Leadership skills with the ability to make quick decisions
• Familiar with ITSM/ITIL concepts
• You thrive being a self‑starter, who can lead others during stressful situations
• Familiar with tools such as Confluence, Jira, and on‑call management software such as PagerDuty and experience with error monitoring software (Sentry, Kibana)
• Bonus: Experience with Jenkins, Argo, Vault, and Coralogix

NOTE

• Role supports our 24/7 staffing model with working hours of 4:00 PM–11:00 PM CST or 11:00 PM–7:00 AM CST.
• Remote role; candidate must be located in the U.S.
• Current and future sponsorship not available for this position

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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.

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