Staff Cloud Engineer

Early Warning Services

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

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Similar $199k
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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 · Staff Cloud Engineer

Staff Cloud Engineer - Contract The Staff Cloud Engineer - Contract joins a technical team focused on developing, testing, and deploying complex solutions within the financial payment systems domain. This role involves building technical strategies for broad requirements, designing infrastructure-as-code projects, and creating tools to ensure reliable cloud deployments. The engineer will manage technical architecture, lead functional teams through planning, and collaborate with product managers to build new features while ensuring system health and security. Key technologies include AWS services like EC2, S3, and Lambda; Kubernetes for container orchestration; and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Ansible. The role also requires proficiency in Java/Spring, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines. Additionally, the candidate will work with messaging frameworks like Kafka or RabbitMQ to manage high-scale distributed systems while ensuring robust performance and observability across various cloud environments.

What does a Cloud Engineer earn?

Median $142450 from 30 postings across 10 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Develop technical strategies and architecture for complex requirements to solve large, open-ended problems.
  • Lead the design, prototyping, and implementation of features in support of product needs and technology strategy.
  • Manage the development lifecycle by building technical plans, creating backlogs of stories, and overseeing production delivery.
  • Partner with product managers and designers to conceptualize new features and define long-term system health.
  • Resolve production issues for support and operations teams while ensuring system performance and scalability.
  • Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes to enhance overall development quality.
  • Lead infrastructure-as-code projects using Terraform and Ansible to automate reliable cloud deployments.
  • Build and manage scalable distributed systems using Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS services.

What we're looking for

  • Candidates must possess eligibility to work in the United States at the date of hire.
  • A Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field is typically required.
  • Eight or more years of relevant related experience are required.
  • Seven or more years of experience in developing distributed systems, SaaS, cloud solutions, and microservices are required.
  • Six or more years of work experience with Java/Spring and proficiency in Maven/Gradle are required.
  • Two or more years of experience in the development of front-end solutions using modern frameworks like Angular or React is required.
  • Experience with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) is required.
  • Advanced degrees, multi-language proficiency, and specific industry knowledge are preferred.

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