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 also serve as a senior technical leader for complex cloud engineering initiatives, influencing architectural decisions and implementation patterns across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement cloud infrastructure solutions that incorporate regulatory, risk, and compliance requirements by applying established security controls and engineering best practices.
• Lead 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.
• Serve as a senior technical leader for complex cloud engineering initiatives, influencing architectural decisions and implementation patterns across multiple teams.
• Troubleshoot the most complex infrastructure and platform issues, including problems that span multiple systems, services, and layers of the technology stack.
• 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.
• 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, 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

• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

Candidates are eligible for a discretionary incentive plan and benefits. This pay scale is subject to change and is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any specific candidate, which is always dependent on legitimate factors considered at the time of job offer. Early Warning Services takes into consideration a variety of factors when determining a competitive salary offer, including, but not limited to, the job scope, market rates and geographic location of a position, candidate’s education, experience, training, and specialized skills or certification(s) in relation to the job requirements and compared with internal equity (peers).