Staff Engineer - Cloud Engineering

About the Role

At Early Warning, we’ve powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting‑edge solutions such as Zelle, Paze and so much more. 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 are located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York and follow a hybrid work model that encourages collaboration.

Mandatory eligibility: must independently possess the right to work in the United States; this position does not sponsor Visa.

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 engineering partners to deliver high‑performance cloud‑native solutions as part of a multi‑year migration of mission‑critical applications and 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 focus on cost management.
• Design and implement cloud infrastructure solutions that incorporate regulatory, risk, and compliance requirements by applying established security controls and engineering best practices.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure problems spanning multiple layers of the stack, collaborating across teams.
• Lead root‑cause analyses for incidents and participate in the 24/7 on‑call rotation.
• Partner with Security and Compliance teams to ensure cloud environments meet regulatory requirements (PCI‑DSS, SOC2, FFIEC) and lead internal and external audit reviews.
• Architect and implement disaster recovery plans to ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and rapid recovery.
• Implement and enforce cloud security best practices, including IAM policies, VPC design, encryption, and key management (KMS).
• Drive adoption and implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and CI/CD best practices.
• Oversee the cloud vulnerability management and configuration program, ensuring patching meets 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 (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk).
• Provide leadership and technical expertise in building a technical plan and backlog of stories, then follow through on execution of design, build, and production delivery.

• 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 AWS experience.
• 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 delivering business‑critical systems to market.
• Ability to influence and collaborate within a team.
• Knowledge of mature engineering practices (CI/CD, testing, secure coding) and software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, LEAN).
• Proven track record implementing security & compliance controls aligned with frameworks such as PCI‑DSS, SOC2, or FFIEC.
• Experience maintaining IaC with tools such as Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, or Ansible.
• Experience building and automating observability at scale for complex transactional systems.
• High level of customer responsiveness, excellent documentation and communication skills, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize work in ambiguous situations.
• Current AWS (and/or other cloud‑based) certification(s).

• MS or PhD in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related field.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting systems (App Dynamics).
• Experience with container security solutions (Twistlock, Aqua Security).
• Experience with other languages (C#, Ruby, Python).
• Knowledge of ACH/EFT and real‑time payment networks (RTP, Fed Now).
• Experience in Fin Tech,…