Senior Cloud Engineer

About Us

We’re the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services, headquartered in Belgium. We are the way the world moves value – across borders, through cities and overseas. No other organization can address the scale, precision, pace and trust that this demands, and we’re proud to support the global economy. We’re unique too. We were established to find a better way for the global financial community to move value – a reliable, safe and secure approach that the community can trust, completely. We’re always striving to be better and are constantly evolving in an ever-changing landscape, without undermining that trust. Five decades on, our vibrant community reflects the complexity and diversity of the financial ecosystem. We innovate diligently, test exhaustively, then implement fast. In a connected and exciting era, our mission has never been more relevant.

Swift now has a presence in 200+ countries and legal territories to serve a community of more than 12,000 banks and financial institutions.

What You’ll Do

• Design and deliver secure, compliant, and scalable cloud infrastructure as reusable internal products
• Enable self-service infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation
• Standardize and automate onboarding of applications into the Landing Zones–AWS, Azure, OCI or GCP
• Partner with engineering, security, product, and platform teams on DevOps pipelines and tooling
• Manage and evolve Landing Zone governance (SCPs, permission sets, security controls)
• Build operational tooling for deployment, monitoring, cost optimization, and analysis
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and platform issues across AWS services

What To Expect

• High ownership and accountability for well-governed cloud solutions
• Collaboration across regions and time zones in an Agile squad model
• Exposure to complex cloud setup, security, and automation challenges
• Continuous learning culture with modern cloud tooling
• Must be willing to participate in 24/7 on-call support rotation for critical operations
• Must be eligible to work in the US without sponsorship

Required Skills

• 5+ years of experience in cloud, security, platform, or infrastructure engineering
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code and automation experience (Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD)
• Proficiency in Python, Java, or Node.js
• Experience with Linux, Git-based workflows, and CI/CD platforms
• Solid foundations in networking, load balancing, PKI, and databases (SQL/NoSQL)
• Strong ownership mindset and collaborative approach

Nice to Have

• Hands-on AWS experience (VPC, EC2, EKS, IAM, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch)
• Kubernetes and container platform experience
• AWS Landing Zone / Control Tower exposure
• Familiarity with AWS security services (Guard Duty, Security Hub, Inspector, Config, Macie)

What To Expect

High ownership and accountability for well-governed cloud solutions
Collaboration across regions and time zones in an Agile squad model
Exposure to complex cloud setup, security, and automation challenges
Continuous learning culture with modern cloud tooling
Must be willing to participate in 24/7 on-call support rotation for critical operations
Must be eligible to work in the US without sponsorship

The Estimated Salary Range for a New Hire into this Position in Virginia

The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position in Virginia is $101,303 USD Annual to $188,135 USD Annual.