Senior Cloud Engineer (AWS) — Platform & Reliability

Early Warning; Scottsdale (AZ); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Early Warning is seeking a Sr. Staff Engineer - Cloud Engineering in a hybrid role across multiple U.S. locations, including Phoenix/Scottsdale area. You will lead design and operation of scalable, secure cloud infrastructure on AWS, focusing on resilience, cost efficiency, and regulatory compliance.

You will mentor teams, drive IaC adoption with Terraform, and advance observability, security, and CI/CD practices while aligning with PCI-DSS, SOC 2, FFIEC standards.

Qualifications

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through a bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field.
• Typically has 12 years of experience or demonstrated portfolio consistent with experience required of the role in cloud engineering, DevOps, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or related technical roles.
• Typically has 4 years of experience or demonstrated portfolio consistent with experience required of the role working hands-on in AWS environments supporting business-critical systems.
• Deep expertise in AWS core services including compute, storage, networking, identity, container orchestration, and managed database services.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, container platforms, Docker, and Linux environments.
• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering large-scale, business-critical systems and cloud platform capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction and work effectively across teams in a collaborative environment.
• Strong knowledge of mature engineering practices including CI/CD, testing, secure engineering, Agile delivery methods, and DevOps practices.
• Proven experience implementing security and compliance controls aligned with frameworks such as PCI-DSS, SOC 2, or FFIEC.
• Experience building and maintaining infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar technologies.
• Experience building and automating observability solutions at scale for complex transactional systems. Strong written and verbal communication skills, strong documentation skills, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize effectively in ambiguous situations.
• Background and drug screen required.

Responsibilities

• Leads the design, implementation, and optimization of cloud‑native solutions using AWS services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, EKS, IAM, VPC, and related services, with strong focus on scalability, resilience, security, and cost efficiency.
• Design and implement cloud infrastructure solutions that incorporate regulatory, risk, and compliance requirements by applying established security controls and engineering best practices.
• Serves as a senior technical leader for complex cloud engineering initiatives, influencing architectural decisions and implementation patterns across multiple teams.
• Troubleshoots the most complex infrastructure and platform issues, including problems that span multiple systems, services, and layers of the technology stack.
• Leads root cause analysis for significant incidents and drives remediation plans that improve reliability, resiliency, and operational maturity.
• Partners with Security and Compliance teams to ensure cloud environments meet regulatory and policy requirements, including PCI‑DSS, SOC 2, FFIEC, and related standards.
• Supports internal and external audit activities by helping prepare evidence, respond to technical requests, and improve readiness of cloud controls and documentation.
• Architects and implements disaster recovery, high availability, backup, and fault‑tolerance approaches to improve service continuity and recoverability.
• Implements and reinforces cloud security best practices, including identity and access management, network segmentation, encryption, and key management.
• Drives adoption of infrastructure as code and automation using Terraform and related tooling, and advances CI/CD best practices that improve consistency and speed of delivery.
• Oversees and improves cloud vulnerability management and configuration compliance efforts to help ensure patching and hardening activities meet service expectations.
• Designs and enhances observability solutions for cloud infrastructure and distributed systems, including logging, metrics, dashboards, tracing, and alerting.
• Provides technical leadership in defining delivery plans, sequencing work, shaping backlogs, and following through on design and build activities through production delivery.
• Creates and maintains clear technical documentation, standards, and implementation guidance for cloud infrastructure, services, and operational procedures.
• Mentors engineers and shares expertise to raise engineering quality, strengthen technical decision‑making, and improve execution across teams.
• Supports the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Linux

Security

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Early Warning is seeking a Sr. Staff Engineer - Cloud Engineering in a hybrid role across multiple U.S. locations, including Phoenix/Scottsdale area. You will lead design and operation of scalable, secure cloud infrastructure on AWS, focusing on resilience, cost efficiency, and regulatory compliance.

You will mentor teams, drive IaC adoption with Terraform, and advance observability, security, and CI/CD practices while aligning with PCI-DSS, SOC 2, FFIEC standards.