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Production Support Engineer

Amount · Chicago, IL · $73,000–$80,000 a year · Production Support

Posted Jul 7, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Walk me through the last time you owned a major incident from the first alert to the postmortem. What happened and what did you do first?

What they are checking: whether the candidate can structure chaos into a repeatable process, not just react

Tell me about a time you had to run a bridge call with engineering, product, and a customer-facing team all at once, and they disagreed about priority. How did you handle it?

What they are checking: ability to lead cross-functional conversations and make a call under competing pressure

Tell me about a postmortem you wrote where the root cause wasn't what anyone expected going in. What changed your thinking during the investigation?

What they are checking: intellectual honesty and rigor in root cause analysis versus settling for a convenient answer

Describe a time a fix you applied under pressure turned out to be wrong or incomplete. What did you do next?

What they are checking: accountability and recovery skills when a quick fix backfires

Tell me about the last time you had to push back on a request to prioritize something you didn't think was actually urgent.

What they are checking: backbone and judgment when triage decisions create friction with stakeholders

What would you do

Say a partner reports that loan applications are silently failing at submission. You have no error logs pointing anywhere obvious. How do you start narrowing this down?

What they are checking: practical troubleshooting instinct and comfort with ambiguity before jumping to a fix

You're on-call at 2 a.m. and get paged for something that turns out to be low-impact but the alert says critical. What do you do in the moment, and what do you do the next day?

What they are checking: judgment on triage severity and follow-through on fixing noisy alerting

A pattern of small, unrelated-looking tickets starts showing up across different partners in the same week. You don't have a fix yet. What do you do with that information?

What they are checking: whether they proactively connect dots instead of closing tickets one by one

You're managing an SLA clock, the fix is taking longer than expected, and the stakeholder is asking for updates every ten minutes. How do you manage that conversation while still doing the work?

What they are checking: ability to balance stakeholder communication with actually solving the problem

About the work

How comfortable are you writing SQL to dig into a production database mid-incident, and what's a query you've written that actually helped you find a root cause?

What they are checking: real hands-on SQL skill versus just familiarity with the concept

What's your experience with tools like PagerDuty, Jira, and error monitoring platforms such as Sentry or Kibana? Give me a specific way you've used one to catch or manage an issue.

What they are checking: actual tool fluency versus resume buzzwords

How do you decide when an issue needs a full incident bridge versus something you can just quietly fix and move on?

What they are checking: understanding of incident severity thresholds and ITIL-style triage discipline

What basic knowledge do you have of a language like Java, Python, or Ruby, and how have you used that to read or troubleshoot code you didn't write yourself?

What they are checking: whether they can navigate a codebase enough to diagnose, even without being a developer

How do you decide what goes into a runbook versus what's a one-off? Give me an example of a runbook or SOP you actually built.

What they are checking: instinct for institutionalizing knowledge rather than just personally remembering fixes

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The full job description

As published by Amount.

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.  Salary:  $73,000-$80,000 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. • 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 • 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, ideally with experience writing SQL queries • 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 • Previously collaborated with a wide spectrum of internal and external stakeholders • 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)   NOTE: • Most positions are hybrid (3 days onsite) in our FIS Office locations in Chicago (Illinois), Milwaukee (Wisconsin), Atlanta (Georgia) and Jacksonville (Florida). • Current and future sponsorship not available for this position Privacy Statement • FIS is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information that we process in order to provide services to our clients. For specific information on how FIS protects personal information online, please see the  Online Privacy Notice . 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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