Sr. Staff Engineer - Cloud Engineering

About the role

The Sr. Staff Engineer - Cloud Engineering leads the design, implementation, and optimization of cloud-native solutions using AWS services. They serve as a senior technical leader for complex cloud engineering initiatives, influencing architectural decisions and implementation patterns across multiple teams. This role works closely with engineering, platform, security, compliance, and architecture partners to solve complex technical challenges and guide implementation decisions.

Responsibilities

• Designs and implements cloud infrastructure solutions that incorporate regulatory, risk, and compliance requirements by applying established security controls and engineering best practices.
• 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 a strong focus on scalability, resilience, security, and cost efficiency.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Requirements

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, DevOps, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or related technical roles. Deep expertise in AWS core services including compute, storage, networking, identity, container orchestration, and managed database services. Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, container platforms, Docker, and Linux environments. Demonstrated experience designing and delivering large-scale, business-critical systems and cloud platform capabilities. Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction and work effectively across teams in a collaborative environment. Strong knowledge of mature engineering practices including CI/CD, testing, secure engineering, Agile delivery methods, and DevOps practices. Proven experience implementing security and compliance controls aligned with frameworks such as PCI-DSS, SOC 2, or FFIEC. Experience building and maintaining infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar technologies. Experience building and automating observability solutions at scale for complex transactional systems. Strong written and verbal communication skills, strong documentation skills, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize effectively in ambiguous situations.

Qualifications

Master’s degree in computer science, management information systems, or related field. Current AWS and/or other relevant cloud certification(s). Experience leading complex cloud modernization or migration efforts across multiple teams. Experience with monitoring and alerting platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk, or AppDynamics. Experience with container and workload security technologies. Experience with programming or scripting languages such as Python, C#, Ruby, or Shell. Knowledge of ACH/EFT and real-time payment networks, including RTP or FedNow. Experience in FinTech, banking, payments, or other highly regulated industries.

Skills

Deep expertise in AWS core services including compute, storage, networking, identity, container orchestration, and managed database services. Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, container platforms, Docker, and Linux environments. Demonstrated experience designing and delivering large-scale, business-critical systems and cloud platform capabilities. Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction and work effectively across teams in a collaborative environment. Strong knowledge of mature engineering practices including CI/CD, testing, secure engineering, Agile delivery methods, and DevOps practices. Proven experience implementing security and compliance controls aligned with frameworks such as PCI-DSS, SOC 2, or FFIEC. Experience building and maintaining infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar technologies. Experience building and automating observability solutions at scale for complex transactional systems. Strong written and verbal communication skills, strong documentation skills, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize effectively in ambiguous situations.

Benefits

Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses. 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility. Paid Time Off – Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day. 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work. And SO much more! We continue to enhance our program, so be sure to check our Benefits page here for the latest. Our team can share more during the interview process!