Senior Cloud Engineer

Early Warning Services

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Scottsdale, AZSan Francisco, CAChicago, ILNew York, NY
Employment
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Posted
69 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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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 64 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $143,500–$183,000 across 60 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer - Contract joins the engineering team to design, implement, and optimize scalable, secure, and cost-effective infrastructure during a multi-year migration of mission-critical applications and data from on-premise systems to AWS. The role involves building cloud-native solutions using EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, EKS, and IAM while ensuring compliance with PCI-DSS, SOC 2, and FFIEC standards. Daily responsibilities include troubleshooting complex infrastructure problems, performing root cause analyses for the 24/7 on-call rotation, managing disaster recovery plans, and maintaining Infrastructure as Code using Terraform. The candidate will utilize Docker, Linux environments, and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, and Splunk to ensure system robustness. This role addresses the technical challenge of securing high-performance transactional systems within a highly regulated financial services environment while maintaining strict security controls and infrastructure documentation.

What does a Cloud Engineer earn?

Median $142450 from 30 postings across 10 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 infrastructure that complies with regulatory requirements such as PCI-DSS, SOC 2, and FFIEC.
  • Troubleshoot complex multi-layer infrastructure problems and perform root cause analysis for incidents.
  • Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to resolve production issues.
  • Manage cloud security best practices including IAM policies, VPC design, and encryption key management.
  • Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Implement disaster recovery plans to ensure high availability and fault tolerance for mission-critical systems.
  • Create technical documentation for infrastructure, security policies, and monitoring solutions like Prometheus and Grafana.

What we're looking for

  • Candidates must possess eligibility to work in the United States for any employer at the date of hire.
  • 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 are required.
  • At least 3 years of hands-on experience in AWS is required.
  • Expertise in AWS core services, Kubernetes (EKS), and Linux environments is required.
  • Experience with Docker, Terraform for Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD practices is required.
  • Experience implementing security and compliance controls like PCI-DSS, SOC 2, or FFIEC is required.
  • Current AWS or other cloud-based certifications are required.
  • Experience with monitoring tools (AppDynamics), container security, or multiple programming languages (C#, Ruby, Python) is preferred.
  • Experience in FinTech, banking, or highly regulated industries is preferred.

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