Senior Cloud Engineer, AWS Platform Leader (Remote)

Early Warning Services LLC; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 207,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave

Paid time off

flex time

401(k)

retirement plan

Job summary

Early Warning Services LLC is seeking a Principal Engineer - Cloud Engineering to drive cloud strategy and architectural direction across teams. You will shape patterns for secure, scalable AWS platforms and guide multi-year migrations from on-prem to cloud.

Work with security, risk, and compliance teams to ensure regulatory alignment while maintaining developer productivity and operational excellence. The role requires strong leadership and documented architecture contributions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a technical field.
• 15 years of cloud engineering/infrastructure experience.
• 5 years of enterprise AWS design/operation experience.
• Deep AWS core services knowledge: compute, storage, networking, identity, containers.
• Kubernetes, Linux, distributed systems experience.
• Proven leadership of architecture for large-scale cloud platforms.
• Experience implementing Terraform and IaC in production.
• Security/compliance controls (PCI-DSS, SOC 2, FFIEC).
• Observability solutions for complex transactional environments.

Responsibilities

• Define cloud engineering strategy, reference architectures, and standards for AWS-based infrastructure.
• Lead design of scalable, secure, cost-optimized cloud-native solutions.
• Drive incident analysis and improve platform reliability and readiness.
• Establish infrastructure as code, automation, and CI/CD practices.
• Collaborate with Security, Risk, and Compliance to meet regulatory requirements.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Terraform

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS services (EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, EKS, IAM, VPC, KMS)

Job description

Early Warning Services LLC is seeking a Principal Engineer - Cloud Engineering to drive cloud strategy and architectural direction across teams. You will shape patterns for secure, scalable AWS platforms and guide multi-year migrations from on-prem to cloud.

Work with security, risk, and compliance teams to ensure regulatory alignment while maintaining developer productivity and operational excellence. The role requires strong leadership and documented architecture contributions.