Cloud Platform Engineer

Cloud Platform Engineer

Location-Scottsdale-Arizona San Francisco-California

Visa: GC/USC only

Overall Purpose

The Cloud Platform Engineer plays a vital role in Early Warnings design implementation and optimization of scalable secure and cost-effective infrastructure. The role works closely with cross-functional teams and our engineering partners to deliver high-performance cloud native solutions as we complete our multi-year cloud journey migrating mission critical application and their data from on-premise to AWS.

Essential Functions

• Implements and optimizes cloud-native solutions using AWS services such as EC2 Lambda S3 RDS EKS and more and with a keen focus on cost management and optimization.
• Troubleshoots complex infrastructure problems often spanning multiple layers of the stack and requiring collaboration across teams. Conducts root cause analyses for incidents and participates in the teams 24/7 on-call rotation.
• Works with Security and Compliance teams to ensure cloud environments meet regulatory requirements (e.g. PCI-DSS SOC 2 FFIEC) and supports internal and external audit reviews collecting evidence and responding to audit requests in a timely manner.
• Implements disaster recovery plans ensuring that our systems are highly available fault-tolerant and able to recover from failure.
• Implements and maintains cloud security best practices including IAM policies VPC design encryption and key management (KMS).
• Contributes to the adoption and implementation of Infrastructure as code (IAC) using Terraform and leveraging CI/CD best practices.
• Supports the cloud vulnerability management and configuration program ensuring patching meets our Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Creates and maintains comprehensive technical documentation of cloud infrastructure policies and procedures.
• Implements cloud infrastructure for robustness security and observability including logging and alerting solutions (e.g. Prometheus Grafana ELK Stack Splunk).
• Provides technical expertise in support of building a technical plan and backlog of stories then follows through on execution of the design and build process through to production delivery.
• Supports the companys commitment to risk management and protect the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through a bachelors degree in computer science or a related technical field.
• At least 7 years in Cloud Engineering or DevOps roles with 3 years of hands-on experience in AWS.
• Strong expertise in AWS core services (EC2 EKS Lambda RDS S3 IAM) and strong knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS) and Linux environments.
• Hands-on Docker experience.
• Experience in delivering business-critical systems to the market.
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment.
• Knowledge of mature engineering practices (CI/CD testing secure coding etc.) plus software development methodologies (Agile Scrum LEAN) and DevOps practices.
• Experience implementing security & compliance controls aligned with frameworks like PCI-DSS SOC 2 or FFIEC.
• Experience maintaining Infrastructure as Code with Terraform.
• Experience in implementing observability at scale for complex transactional systems.
• High level of customer responsiveness excellent documentation and communication skills attention to detail clear understanding of how to prioritize work and deal with ambiguity.
• Current AWS (and/or other cloud-based) certification(s).
• Background and drug screen required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science Management Information Systems or related field.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting systems (AppDynamics) and container security solutions (e.g. Twistlock Aqua Security).
• Experience with other languages (C# Ruby Python).
• Knowledge of ACH/EFT and real-time payment networks (RTP FedNow).
• Experience in FinTech banking or other highly regulated industries.