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Production Support Engineer - Non-Day Shift Hours

Amount · Chicago, IL · Production Support

Posted Jul 7, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Sep 20, 2026

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Behavioral

Walk me through the last major incident you owned from the moment it landed on your desk to the postmortem. What did you actually do, in order?

whether the candidate has real end-to-end incident management experience versus just ticket-closing

Tell me about a time you had to tell a stakeholder the SLA was going to be missed. How did you handle that conversation?

comfort communicating bad news clearly and early rather than hiding it until the deadline passes

What's gone into a root cause analysis you wrote that actually got acted on, not just filed away?

whether their RCA work drives real prevention or is just documentation theater

Tell me about a time you disagreed with a developer or DevOps engineer about whose responsibility a bug was. How did that get resolved?

cross-functional conflict resolution skill without a formal reporting line

Tell me about the most complex, multi-system environment you've supported. What made it complex, and where did you usually get stuck?

exposure to genuinely complex production environments versus simpler single-app support roles

Technical

You've got a table with millions of rows and a partner reporting bad data on their loan applications. What's your query approach to isolate the problem?

actual SQL fluency with joins and filtering on real production-scale data, not just textbook syntax

How comfortable are you with tools like PagerDuty, Jira, and Confluence, and have you used error monitoring tools like Sentry or Kibana to actually track down a bug?

hands-on familiarity with the specific tool stack versus just name recognition

What does a good runbook look like to you, and can you describe one you've written or wish you'd had during an incident?

whether they think about knowledge transfer and reducing tribal knowledge, not just fixing the immediate problem

How would you build a weekly dashboard on incident metrics that actually gets read by leadership instead of ignored?

ability to turn raw incident data into something decision-useful, not just a report for its own sake

Situational

Say you get paged at 2 a.m. and three different teams each think the root cause is something different. How do you figure out who's right and get the fix moving?

ability to lead a technical bridge and make decisions under pressure without deep tie-breaking authority

How do you decide whether an incoming ticket is a real P1 or something that can wait until tomorrow?

practical triage judgment and whether they have a consistent framework versus gut feel

You notice the same type of ticket keeps showing up every few weeks but nobody's connected the dots yet. What do you do with that observation?

pattern recognition and initiative to escalate systemic issues without being asked

This role runs on evening or overnight shifts with on-call rotation including weekends and holidays. What's your experience with that kind of schedule, and how do you keep your judgment sharp at 3 a.m.?

realistic self-assessment of whether they can sustain non-standard hours long term

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The full job description

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<div class="content-intro"><p><a href="https://www.fisglobal.com/products/fis-amount?loc=specs">FIS® Amount™</a> 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 <a href="https://www.fisglobal.com/products/fis-amount?loc=specs">www.fisglobal.com</a>.</p> <p>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?</p></div><p><strong>A DAY IN THE LIFE:</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;"><strong>Team:</strong> This role interacts with nearly every group within the organization, including engineering, product, QA, customer success and others.&nbsp;</p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;"><strong>Work Hours</strong>: 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.</p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;"><strong>Salary: </strong>$80,000-$90,000 base salary</p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;"><strong>Similar job titles: </strong>Production Support, Production Support Analyst, Incident Manager, Incident Coordinator, IT Major Incident Manager, Application Support Engineer, Support Engineer</p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;">&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>WHAT WE’LL TRUST YOU TO DELIVER:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Technical ability to deep dive into issues by querying tables, analyzing data and problem-solving</li> <li>Prioritization and triage of incoming requests/issues</li> <li>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 runbook development.</li> <li>Management of all incidents through the incident management lifecycle</li> <li>Documentation of all relevant events, getting status reports while driving decision-making and resolution</li> <li>Ensure stakeholders are updated according to predefined service level agreements</li> <li>Completion and ownership of the postmortem with appropriate root cause analysis performed</li> <li>Improvement suggestions to capture preventative measures that will avoid recurrences of incidents</li> <li>Investigate patterns that indicate larger overall issues, even if we don’t have the solution.</li> <li>Compilation of metrics on a weekly and monthly basis. Maintain dashboards for service incidents and ad hoc reporting as requested</li> <li>Management of ticket queues, client interaction, and maintenance of batch jobs</li> <li>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</li> <li>Creation of runbooks or standard operating procedures (SOP) so we can all learn from each other and add to our knowledge base</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>WHAT YOU LIKELY BRING TO THE TABLE:&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li>Technical and/or engineering background with advanced DB SQL skills, including table joins and advanced queries</li> <li>Experience with Postman, AI, and agents</li> <li>Experience working with development teams in a fast-paced environment</li> <li>Basic knowledge or interest of any programming language such as Java, Python or Ruby</li> <li>2 years of experience coordinating and executing major incidents, with demonstrated capacity to lead under pressure</li> <li>Experience managing a wide spectrum of internal and external stakeholders, collaborating with cross-functional teams like QA, Customer Success, Developers, DevOps, and SRE</li> <li>Worked in an organization with a complex business environment</li> <li>Leadership skills with the ability to make quick decisions</li> <li>Familiar with ITSM/ITIL concepts</li> <li>You thrive being a self-starter, who can lead others during stressful situations</li> <li>Familiar with tools such as Confluence, Jira, and on-call management software such as PagerDuty and experience with error monitoring software (Sentry, Kibana)</li> <li>Bonus: Experience with Jenkins, Argo, Vault, and Coralogix</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>NOTE:</strong></p> <ul> <li>This 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.</li> <li>Remote role; candidate must be located in the U.S.</li> <li>Current and future sponsorship not available for this position</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Privacy Statement</strong></p> <ul> <li>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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efisglobal%2Ecom%2Fprivacy&amp;urlhash=N5gM&amp;mt=d_P3RpbKvglp-JaJJXVEovGdQNtI3aTGxoTCserb1-cxwGkLpbQVXfFrUBrFKL5HvyfK0mDzk_tj_7OBaqDieP82LHo&amp;isSdui=true"> Online Privacy Notice</a>.<br><br></li> </ul> <p><strong>EEOC Statement</strong></p> <ul> <li>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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eeeoc%2Egov%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fmigrated_files%2Femployers%2Feeoc_self_print_poster%2Epdf&amp;urlhash=2mFa&amp;mt=8-T4r1hjKkLgc-vFEkIr_-ZwmGkLxu6hX4hxfmgezeXgqvba2jCY42ODRpy8-M_re9p6K2vr6Wp8k6CPYLKSAqvrwms&amp;isSdui=true"> available here</a> supplement document<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Edol%2Egov%2Fofccp%2Fregs%2Fcompliance%2Fposters%2Fpdf%2FOFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c%2Epdf&amp;urlhash=HiO6&amp;mt=OLFRmkM6xdfBPu6wnj8-vy-aK-yhxH_rIXBjL2DxAwFGZrEGEe-0GAWFud3A_NNBRFUOsbM8SG2B0ZExTKI2TfTvYAk&amp;isSdui=true"> available here</a></li> <li>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.<br><br></li> </ul> <p><strong>Sourcing Model</strong></p> <ul> <li>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.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p><div class="content-conclusion"><div> <p><strong>NOTE:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Most positions are hybrid (3 days onsite) in our FIS Office locations in Chicago (Illinois), Milwaukee (Wisconsin), Atlanta (Georgia) and Jacksonville (Florida).</strong></li> <li><strong>Current and future sponsorship not available for this position</strong></li> </ul> <p><strong>Privacy Statement</strong></p> <ul> <li>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&nbsp;<a href="http://www.fisglobal.com/privacy">Online Privacy Notice</a>.</li> </ul> <p><strong>EEOC Statement</strong></p> <ul> <li>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&nbsp;<a href="https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/migrated_files/employers/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf">available here</a> supplement document <a href="http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf">available here</a></li> <li>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.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Sourcing Model</strong></p> <ul> <li>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.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div></div>

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