Sr. 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.

Overall Purpose

The Sr. Staff Engineer - Cloud Engineering is a senior technical individual contributor responsible for leading the design, evolution, and operational excellence of Early Warning's cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities. This role provides deep technical expertise across cloud architecture, reliability, security, automation, and observability, and partners across engineering teams to enable secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud-native solutions.

The role works closely with engineering, platform, security, compliance, and architecture partners to solve complex technical challenges and guide implementation decisions as Early Warning continues its multi-year migration of mission-critical applications and data from on-premise environments to AWS. The Sr. Staff Engineer helps establish technical patterns, improves platform consistency, and drives execution on high-impact cloud initiatives that support business growth, developer effectiveness, and operational stability.

Essential Functions

• 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• 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,…