Sr. Staff Engineer - Cloud Engineering

Overview

At Early Warning, we ve powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with solutions like Zelle, Paze, and more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.

Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.

Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.

• Leads the design, implementation, and optimization of cloud-native solutions using AWS services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, EKS, IAM, VPC, and related services, with strong focus on scalability, resilience, security, and cost efficiency.

• Design and implement cloud infrastructure solutions that incorporate regulatory, risk, and compliance requirements by applying established security controls and engineering best practices.

• Serves as a senior technical leader for complex cloud engineering initiatives, influencing architectural decisions and implementation patterns across multiple teams.

• Troubleshoots the most complex infrastructure and platform issues, including problems that span multiple systems, services, and layers of the technology stack.

• Leads root cause analysis for significant incidents and drives remediation plans that improve reliability, resiliency, and operational maturity.

• Partners with Security and Compliance teams to ensure cloud environments meet regulatory and policy requirements, including PCI-DSS, SOC 2, FFIEC, and related standards.

• Supports internal and external audit activities by helping prepare evidence, respond to technical requests, and improve readiness of cloud controls and documentation.

• Architects and implements disaster recovery, high availability, backup, and fault-tolerance approaches to improve service continuity and recoverability.

• Implements and reinforces cloud security best practices, including identity and access management, network segmentation, encryption, and key management.

• Drives adoption of infrastructure as code and automation using Terraform and related tooling, and advances CI/CD best practices that improve consistency and speed of delivery.

• Oversees and improves cloud vulnerability management and configuration compliance efforts to help ensure patching and hardening activities meet service expectations.

• Designs and enhances observability solutions for cloud infrastructure and distributed systems, including logging, metrics, dashboards, tracing, and alerting.

• Provides technical leadership in defining delivery plans, sequencing work, shaping backlogs, and following through on design and build activities through production delivery.

• Creates and maintains clear technical documentation, standards, and implementation guidance for cloud infrastructure, services, and operational procedures.

• Mentors engineers and shares expertise to raise engineering quality, strengthen technical decision-making, and improve execution across teams.

• Supports the company s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through a bachelor s degree in computer science or a related technical field.

• Typically has 12 years of experience or demonstrated portfolio consistent with experience required of the role in cloud engineering, Dev Ops, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or related technical roles.

• Typically has 4 years of experience or demonstrated portfolio consistent with experience required of the role working hands-on in AWS environments supporting business-critical systems.

• Deep expertise in AWS core services including compute, storage, networking, identity, container orchestration, and managed database services.

• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, container platforms, Docker, and Linux environments.

• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering large-scale, business-critical systems and cloud platform capabilities.

• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction and work effectively across teams in a collaborative environment.

• Strong knowledge of mature engineering practices including CI/CD, testing, secure engineering, Agile delivery methods, and Dev Ops practices.

• Proven experience implementing security and compliance controls aligned with frameworks such as PCI-DSS, SOC 2, or FFIEC.

• Experience building and maintaining infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, or similar technologies.

• Experience building and automating observability solutions at scale for complex transactional systems.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, strong documentation skills, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize effectively in…