Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Early Warning powers and protects the U.S. financial system through payment and financial services solutions. The Principal Engineer - Cloud Engineering defines cloud engineering strategy and architecture standards while leading complex AWS initiatives, cloud migration efforts, security and compliance practices, reliability improvements, and technical direction across teams.
Responsibilities
- Defines and leads cloud engineering strategy, reference architectures, and technical standards for AWS-based infrastructure and platform capabilities
- Leads the design of highly scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-optimized cloud-native solutions using AWS services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, EKS, IAM, VPC, KMS, and related services
- Solves the most complex infrastructure and platform problems, including issues that span multiple systems, teams, and technology layers
- Leads root cause analysis for significant incidents, drives durable corrective actions, and improves platform reliability, resiliency, and operational readiness
- Establishes enterprise patterns for infrastructure as code, automation, and CI/CD practices using tools such as Terraform and related delivery tooling
- Partners with Security, Risk, and Compliance teams to design and maintain cloud controls that meet regulatory and policy requirements, including PCI-DSS, SOC 2, FFIEC, and other applicable standards
- Provides technical leadership for internal and external audits by shaping control evidence approaches, addressing audit requests, and improving audit readiness
- Architects disaster recovery, high availability, backup, and fault-tolerant strategies for critical cloud services and validates recovery approaches through testing and continuous improvement
- Defines and enforces cloud security best practices including identity and access management, network segmentation, encryption, key management, secrets handling, and secure workload configuration
- Drives cloud vulnerability management and configuration compliance strategies to ensure remediation, patching, and hardening practices meet service level expectations
- Establishes cloud observability standards and leads implementation of logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting solutions to support complex transactional systems
- Influences technical roadmaps, sequencing, and investment decisions across engineering teams to improve cloud adoption, operability, and platform consistency
- Builds strong cross-functional relationships and serves as a trusted advisor to engineering leaders and senior stakeholders on cloud architecture, risk, tradeoffs, and long-term technical direction
- Produces clear and durable technical documentation, standards, architecture artifacts, and guidance that enable scalable adoption across teams
- Mentors engineers and technical leaders by raising engineering standards, sharing expertise, and guiding design and execution on high-impact initiatives
- Supports the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data
Skills
- Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire
- * Education and/or experience typically obtained through a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field
- * Typically has 15 years of experience or demonstrated portfolio consistent with experience required of the role in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or related technical roles
- * Typically has 5 years of experience or demonstrated portfolio consistent with experience required of the role designing and operating solutions in AWS at enterprise scale
- * Deep expertise in AWS core services including compute, storage, networking, identity, container orchestration, and managed data services
- * Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, container platforms, Linux environments, and distributed systems design
- * Demonstrated experience leading architecture and technical direction for large-scale, business-critical, cloud-based platforms or migrations
- * Demonstrated ability to influence engineers, architects, and leaders across multiple teams without direct authority
- * Strong experience establishing and scaling infrastructure as code practices using Terraform and related automation tooling
- * Strong knowledge of mature engineering practices including CI/CD, testing, secure engineering, operational readiness, and software delivery lifecycle disciplines
- * Proven experience implementing and governing security and compliance controls aligned with frameworks such as PCI-DSS, SOC 2, or FFIEC
- * Strong experience designing and operationalizing observability solutions for complex, high-availability transactional environments
- * Strong judgment in evaluating technical tradeoffs involving reliability, security, cost, speed, and maintainability
- * Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- * High level of customer responsiveness, strong documentation skills, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize effectively in ambiguous environments
- * Master's degree in computer science, management information systems, or related field
- * Current AWS certification(s) and/or other relevant cloud certifications
- * Experience leading large-scale cloud migration or modernization programs in regulated environments
- * Experience with policy-as-code, cloud governance frameworks, and developer enablement models that improve safe self-service adoption
- * Experience with monitoring and alerting platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk, or AppDynamics
- * Experience with container and workload security technologies
- * Experience with programming or scripting languages such as Python, Java, C#, Ruby, or Shell
- * Knowledge of ACH/EFT and real-time payment networks, including RTP or FedNow
- * Experience in FinTech, banking, payments, or other highly regulated industries
Benefits
- Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.
- Candidates are eligible for a discretionary incentive plan.
- Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.
- 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.
- Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees.
- Generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees.
- 11 paid company holidays.
- A paid volunteer day.
- 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave.
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