Tech Lead, Solutions Architecture

Calling all innovators – find your future at Fiserv.

We're Fiserv, a global leader in Fintech and payments, and we move money and information in a way that moves the world. We connect financial institutions, corporations, merchants, and consumers to one another millions of times a day – quickly, reliably, and securely. Any time you swipe your credit card, pay through a mobile app, or withdraw money from the bank, we're involved. If you want to make an impact on a global scale, come make a difference at Fiserv.

Job Title

Experience - 8 to 12 Years

Mandatory Skills : Kubernetes, GCP/AWS, Terraform, Helm, Argo CD

Join the Fintech & POS Revolution:

At Clover, we're on a mission to help small businesses grow faster by delivering the technology and insights that were previously only available to larger enterprises. As part of the Fiserv family, a global leader in Fintech and payments, you'll be part of a fast-paced, entrepreneurial team delivering innovative financial services experiences that align with the way people live and work today.

Clover delivers the leading Point of Sale (POS) system, combining elegant hardware, cloud-based software, payments processing, APIs for third-party developers, and an ecosystem of over 220 apps. Our platform serves millions of transactions daily, powering businesses from small merchants to large-scale operations like football stadiums.

If you're passionate about distributed, scalable and secure technology and want to make a lasting impact on millions of merchants' lives, we want you to be part of the team

What does a Solution Architect(Kubernetes) do?

Cloud Platform team builds the Kubernetes based microservice platform that application teams rely on to operate their critical services. You will design and build large scale, fault tolerant, distributed systems that will enable Clover engineering to ship features quickly and safely to our customers. You will play a key role in developing the team's technical strategic roadmap, and will collaborate with service development teams to design, build and support the platform.

Working frequently with other teams, you will coordinate major changes to cross-system architectures, and have an influential impact on their work. If you have extensive experience with building and managing Kubernetes ecosystems and other cloud native technology, a systematic problem-solving approach, strong communications skills and a sense of ownership – we want to hear from you

In this role, you will:

• Design and implement our cloud-based service platform.
• Make architectural decisions around our use of Kubernetes and the surrounding ecosystem.
• Work with developers who utilize the platform and incorporate their feedback to evolve it.
• Help your teammates grow through better processes, practices and technical guidance.
• Scale systems sustainably through automation and contribute changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Evaluate and implement new technological solutions through proof of concept and drive to completion.
• Be part of a recurring production support on call rotation. Conduct blameless postmortems for incidents and diligently follow through with remediations.

On this team, you will manage large scale and demanding infrastructure needs. Cloud Platform is at the center of core infrastructure, your impact will be felt by the entire Clover organization.

Basic qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience
• 8+ years of industry experience
• Production experience with Kubernetes, service meshes, and the tooling in that ecosystem (Helm, CI/CD, Terraform, etc).
• Experience building, deploying and maintaining large scale platforms
• Aptitude for diagnosing technical issues, debugging and automating routine tasks
• A fundamental understanding of networking (Loadbalancers, Kubernetes networking, VPCs, mTLS, etc)
• Experience with major cloud providers such as AWS, GCP or Azure
• Knowledge of observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, ELK, Grafana
• Experience working with various database technologies

Preferred qualifications:

• Proficiency in a modern programming languages (e.g., Java, Go, Python, Ruby, or similar)
• Knowledge of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing
• Familiarity with various technologies:
  •  Application APIs - OpenAPI, Protobuf, GraphQL,
  • Proxy - Nginx, HAProxy, Envoy, Apache Server
  • Caching - Redis, Memcache
  • Kubernetes: CRDs, Operators, Crossplane, OPA Gatekeeper

Thank you for considering employment with Fiserv.  Please:

• Apply using your legal name
• Complete the step-by-step profile and attach your resume (either is acceptable, both are preferable).

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Fiserv is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by law. 

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