Principal Cloud Engineer (AWS)

Location: Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Phoenix, or remote within the United States. Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, and New York positions follow a hybrid model. Applicants must independently be eligible to work in the United States for any employer; visa sponsorship is not available.

Salary: $173,000–$230,000 per year for Phoenix, Chicago, and remote U.S. positions; $207,000–$242,000 per year for San Francisco positions. Additional discretionary incentive plan and benefits are available.

Company

hirify.global provides payment and financial technology solutions, including Zelle and Paze, for financial institutions, consumers, and businesses.

What you will do

• Define AWS cloud engineering strategy, reference architectures, standards, and enterprise implementation patterns.
• Design scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-optimized cloud-native platforms using services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, EKS, IAM, VPC, and KMS.
• Lead complex infrastructure and platform problem-solving, incident root cause analysis, corrective actions, and operational readiness improvements.
• Establish infrastructure-as-code, automation, CI/CD, observability, vulnerability management, and configuration compliance practices.
• Architect disaster recovery, high availability, backup, fault tolerance, identity management, network segmentation, encryption, and secrets-handling strategies.
• Partner with engineering, security, risk, compliance, and platform teams; influence roadmaps, support audits, document standards, and mentor engineers and technical leaders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Approximately 15 years of experience in cloud, infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or related technical roles, including approximately 5 years designing and operating enterprise-scale AWS solutions.
• Deep expertise in AWS core services, Kubernetes, container platforms, Linux, distributed systems, and Terraform-based infrastructure as code.
• Experience leading architecture and technical direction for large-scale, business-critical cloud platforms or migrations.
• Experience with CI/CD, secure engineering, testing, operational readiness, observability, and software delivery lifecycle practices.
• Experience implementing security and compliance controls aligned with PCI-DSS, SOC 2, FFIEC, or similar frameworks; background and drug screening are required.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree and current AWS or other cloud certifications.
• Experience with regulated-environment cloud migration, policy as code, governance frameworks, and developer enablement.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk, AppDynamics, or container and workload security technologies.
• Programming or scripting experience with Python, Java, C#, Ruby, or Shell.
• Knowledge of ACH/EFT, RTP, FedNow, fintech, banking, payments, or other regulated industries.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid collaboration model for specified U.S. office locations, with a remote option for eligible U.S. positions.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, with HSA contributions and FSA options.
• 401(k) plan with a 100% company safe-harbor match on the first 6% deferred.
• Flexible time off for exempt employees, PTO for non-exempt employees, 11 paid holidays, and a paid volunteer day.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave and family-planning support.