Sr. Staff Engineer - Cloud Engineering

Early Warning Services•Scottsdale, AZ

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Sr. Staff Engineer - Cloud Engineering is a senior technical individual contributor responsible for leading the design, evolution, and operational excellence of Early Warning’s cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities. This role provides deep technical expertise across cloud architecture, reliability, security, automation, and observability, and partners across engineering teams to enable secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud-native solutions. The role works closely with engineering, platform, security, compliance, and architecture partners to solve complex technical challenges and guide implementation decisions as Early Warning continues its multi-year migration of mission-critical applications and data from on-premise environments to AWS. The Sr. Staff Engineer helps establish technical patterns, improves platform consistency, and drives execution on high-impact cloud initiatives that support business growth, developer effectiveness, and operational stability.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field.
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.
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.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in computer science, management information systems, or related field.
Current AWS and/or other relevant cloud certification(s).
Experience leading complex cloud modernization or migration efforts across multiple teams.
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, 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.

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.

Benefits

Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans
Company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA)
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
Paid volunteer day
12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.