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 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.  

 Essential Functions 

•  Leads the design, implementation and optimization of cloud-native solutions using AWS services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, EKS, and more and with a keen focus on cost management and optimization. 

• Troubleshoots complex infrastructure problems, often spanning multiple layers of the stack and requiring collaboration across teams.  Leads root cause analyses for incidents and participates in the team’s 24/7 on-call rotation. 

• Partners with Security and Compliance teams to ensure cloud environments meet regulatory requirements (e.g., PCI-DSS, SOC 2, FFIEC) and leads internal and external audit reviews collecting evidence and responding to audit requests in a timely manner. 

• Architects and implements disaster recovery plans ensuring that our systems are highly available, fault-tolerant, and able to recover from failure.  

• Implements and enforces cloud security best practices including IAM policies, VPC design, encryption and key management (KMS). 

• Drives the adoption and implementation of Infrastructure as code (IAC) using Terraform and leveraging CI/CD best practices. 

• Oversees the cloud vulnerability management and configuration program ensuring patching meets our Service Level Agreements (SLAs).   

• Maintains comprehensive technical documentation of cloud infrastructure, policies, and procedures. 

• Designs cloud infrastructure for robustness, security, and observability, including logging and alerting solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk).