Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with Mainframe Technologies

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with Mainframe Technologies

Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS youll 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 Role :

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with deep expertise in Mainframe technologies like COBOL, JCL, etc. to support and enhance our Card Management & Payment processing functions. This role will be responsible for ensuring reliability, high availability, scalability, stability and performance of mission-critical mainframe software applications and systems, with a strong focus on mainframe technologies. This role blends software engineering with systems engineering to automate operations, improve system resilience, and drive continuous improvement.

What you will be doing:

• Act as a hybrid engineer, balancing responsibilities across software development and site reliability engineering.
• Design, develop, and maintain Mainframe applications using COBOL, JCL, SORT, and related technologies.
• Monitor, maintain, and improve the reliability and performance of mainframe systems and applications.
• Develop and implement automation tools for system health checks, incident response, and performance tuning to streamline operations and reduce manual intervention.
• Collaborate with cross-functional (development, infrastructure, and operations) teams to design and develop proactive engineering solutions that enhance system scalability, reliability and resilient systems.
• Monitor and improve system performance, availability, and scalability across card management platforms.
• Perform root cause analysis of production incidents and drive postmortem processes.
• Drive incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives. Participate in on-call rotations and ensure rapid incident resolution.

What you bring:

• 7 to 10 experiences in working on Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with deep expertise in Mainframe based technologies
• Good Experience in COBOL, JCL (HP JCL knowledge added advantage),VSAM, File-Aid or Insync, Xpeditor, ENDEVOR etc
• Good to have experience in IMS DB/DC and DB2
• Ability to apply software development practices to operational challenges.

Added bonus if you have:

• Certifications in SRE, ITIL, or Mainframe technologies.
• Proven experience in Site Reliability Engineering, including automation, monitoring, and performance tuning
• Experience with observability tools and incident management frameworks.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with a pragmatic approach to engineering.
• Proficiency in automation and scripting tools.
• Experience with monitoring tools (e.g., Splunk, IBM OMEGAMON etc.).

What we offer you:

• A work environment built on collaboration, flexibility and respect
• Competitive salary and attractive range of benefits designed to help support your lifestyle and wellbeing.
•  Varied and challenging work to help you grow your technical skillset