Senior Cloud Engineer

Early Warning Services

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Work type
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Location
Scottsdale, AZChicago, ILSan Francisco, CANew York, NY
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Full-time
Posted
112 days ago
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About Early Warning Services

Early Warning Services is a fintech company that operates the Zelle person-to-person payments network, the Paze digital checkout wallet, and Certos fraud prevention and identity risk solutions for financial institutions.

Early Warning Services currently has 83 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $147,500–$181,500 across 34 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Cloud Engineer

The Senior Cloud Engineer - Contract joins the Cloud Engineering team to design, implement, and optimize scalable, secure, and cost-effective infrastructure. This role involves migrating mission-critical applications and data from on-premise environments to AWS while ensuring high availability and disaster recovery. Key responsibilities include implementing cloud-native solutions, managing IAM policies, designing VPCs, and maintaining Infrastructure as Code using Terraform. The engineer will troubleshoot complex stack issues, participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, and ensure compliance with PCI-DSS, SOC 2, and FFIEC standards. Required technical skills include AWS services like EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, and EKS, along with Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK Stack. The work focuses on securing complex transactional systems within a highly regulated financial services environment.

What does a Cloud Engineer earn?

Median $149317 from 44 postings across 12 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Implement and optimize cloud-native solutions using AWS services like EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, and EKS.
  • Design cloud infrastructure that incorporates regulatory, risk, and compliance requirements such as PCI-DSS and SOC 2.
  • Troubleshoot complex infrastructure problems across multiple layers of the stack and conduct root cause analyses.
  • Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to support mission-critical systems.
  • Maintain cloud security best practices including IAM policies, VPC design, and encryption key management.
  • Manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and leverage CI/CD best practices.
  • Implement disaster recovery plans to ensure high availability and fault tolerance for all systems.
  • Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation for cloud infrastructure, policies, and procedures.

What we're looking for

  • Candidates must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States for any employer.
  • A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field is typically required.
  • At least 7 years of experience in Cloud Engineering or DevOps roles is required.
  • At least 3 years of hands-on experience in AWS is required.
  • Strong expertise in AWS core services, Kubernetes (EKS), and Linux environments is required.
  • Hands-on Docker experience and experience maintaining Infrastructure as Code with Terraform are required.
  • Experience implementing security and compliance controls aligned with PCI-DSS, SOC 2, or FFIEC is required.
  • Current AWS or other cloud-based certification(s) are required.

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