Senior Director, Cloud Engineering

Early Warning Services

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Chicago, ILScottsdale, AZSan Francisco, CANew York, NY
Salary
$206,000–$275,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
5 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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This role $240k
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This role pays more than 62% of similar roles. Most pay $162,000–$264,450 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $240k versus about $213k for comparable roles.

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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 54 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $150,000–$186,000 across 51 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Director, Cloud Engineering

Sr. Director, Cloud Engineering leads a multi-disciplined team responsible for the deployment and operation of cloud infrastructure platforms. This leader designs and implements technical systems, processes, and operational disciplines to support the transition of workloads to the cloud while ensuring service levels, performance, and security. The role involves developing long-term strategies, reducing technical debt, and collaborating with cross-functional teams in security and finance to manage risk and optimize expenditure. Key responsibilities include overseeing infrastructure architecture, managing large-scale platforms, and maintaining regulatory compliance. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience with AWS services, microservice-based solutions, and DevOps and SRE best practices. This position addresses the technical challenge of building scalable, high-performing cloud environments to support critical payment systems and financial transaction protections within a complex, regulated environment.

What you'll do

  • Develop and manage the company's cloud systems vision, architecture, standards, and multi-year strategy.
  • Lead a high-performance team to deliver on departmental objectives and corporate goals.
  • Design and implement technical processes for transitioning workloads to cloud infrastructure.
  • Manage the performance, security, and cost optimization of all cloud platforms.
  • Collaborate with security teams to align on policies and manage risk.
  • Partner with Finance to monitor and optimize cloud expenditure against budget goals.
  • Ensure all systems comply with relevant regulatory and compliance standards.
  • Establish audit processes and documentation for cloud procedures to ensure operational consistency.

What we're looking for

  • Candidates must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States at the date of hire.
  • A bachelor's degree in computer information systems or computer science is typically required.
  • Candidates must have 15 or more years of experience managing complex cloud infrastructure.
  • Candidates must have at least 8 years of leadership experience.
  • Extensive experience designing and managing scalable solutions using AWS services is required.
  • Experience developing and operating platforms at Web-scale (IaaS, PaaS, and/or SaaS) is required.
  • Strong familiarity with DevOps and SRE best practices to improve velocity and operational reliability is required.
  • Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills are required.

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