Staff Engineer - Cloud Engineering

At Early Warning, we’ve powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting‑edge solutions like Zelle®, Paze℠, and so much 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.

The Staff Engineer‑ Cloud Engineering plays a critical role in Early Warning’s design, implementation, and optimization of scalable, secure and cost‑effective infrastructure. The role works closely with cross‑functional teams and our engineering partners to deliver high‑performance cloud native solutions as we complete our multi‑year cloud journey migrating mission critical application and their data from on‑premise to AWS.

• Lead the design, implementation and optimization of cloud‑native solutions using AWS services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, EKS, and more, with a keen focus on cost management and optimization.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure problems, often spanning multiple layers of the stack and requiring collaboration across teams. Lead root cause analyses for incidents and participate in the team’s 24/7 on‑call rotation.
• Partner with Security and Compliance teams to ensure cloud environments meet regulatory requirements (e.g., PCI‑DSS, SOC 2, FFIEC) and lead internal and external audit reviews, collecting evidence and responding to audit requests in a timely manner.
• Architect and implement disaster recovery plans ensuring that our systems are highly available, fault‑tolerant, and able to recover from failure.
• Implement and enforce cloud security best practices including IAM policies, VPC design, encryption and key management (KMS).
• Drive the adoption and implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and leveraging CI/CD best practices.
• Oversee cloud vulnerability management and configuration program ensuring patching meets our Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Maintain comprehensive technical documentation of cloud infrastructure, policies, and procedures.
• Design cloud infrastructure for robustness, security, and observability, including logging and alerting solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk).
• Provide leadership and technical expertise in support of building a technical plan and backlog of stories, then follow through on execution of the design and build process through to production delivery.
• Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protect 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.
• At least 8 years in Cloud Engineering or Dev Ops roles, with 3+ years of hands‑on experience in AWS.
• Deep expertise in AWS core services (EC2, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM) and strong knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS) and Linux environments.
• Hands‑on Docker experience.
• Demonstrated experience in delivering business‑critical systems to the market.
• Ability to influence and work in a collaborative team environment.
• Knowledge of mature engineering practices (CI/CD, testing, secure coding, etc.), plus software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, LEAN) and Dev Ops practices.
• Proven track record implementing security & compliance controls aligned with frameworks like PCI‑DSS, SOC 2, or FFIEC.
• Experience maintaining Infrastructure as Code with tools such as Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, or Ansible.
• Experience in building and automating observability at scale for complex transactional systems.
• High level of customer responsiveness, excellent documentation and communication skills, attention to detail, clear understanding of how to prioritize work and deal with ambiguity.
• Current…