Sr Cloud Engineer

Sr Cloud Engineer

Location: Scottsdale, AZ (Onsite)

Summary:

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to lead cloud strategy and platform engineering for a fast-growing FinTech company. This role is pivotal in building scalable, secure, and compliant multi-account AWS environments with Infrastructure as Code.

Key Responsibilities:

Design and implement enterprise-grade Landing Zones using AWS Control Tower and Account Factory

Manage AWS Organizations, account hierarchy, and Service Control Policies (SCPs)

Build infrastructure using Terraform/CDK, following GitOps and IaC best practices

Drive adoption of cloud governance frameworks, account vending, and automation pipelines

Work closely with security, compliance, and audit teams to embed controls for PCI-DSS, SOC 2, and ISO 27001

Enforce resource tagging, logging, monitoring, and backup policies across environments

Lead Cloud CoE efforts to onboard teams while maintaining scalability and guardrails

Required Skills:

Expert-level AWS architecture, especially Landing Zones, Org Management, and governance

Strong hands-on with Terraform, CloudFormation, and CI/CD integration (e.g., GitHub Actions, CodePipeline)

Experience with account provisioning at scale, centralized logging, and cost controls

Deep understanding of multi-account billing, cross-account roles, SCPs, and compliance tagging

Knowledge of cloud-native controls for data encryption, auditing, and secure API access

Familiarity with financial services regulatory frameworks and cloud security alignment

Experience supporting real-time systems, low-latency architecture, and transactional integrity