{"id":1159482,"url":"https://alion.io/job/early-warning-services-sr-director-cloud-engineering","title":"Sr. Director, Cloud Engineering","company":{"id":46312,"name":"Early Warning Services","domain":"earlywarning.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/earlywarning","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":86,"open_postings":7,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.571,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":28,"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Chicago, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":206000,"max":275000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":275000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":15,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AWS","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T23:02:52Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T03:16:50Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"At Early Warning, we’ve powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle®, Paze®, and so much more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.\nPositions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.\nCandidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.\nThe Sr. Director, Cloud Engineering, is responsible for the deployment and operation of the platforms that support Early Warning’s cloud infrastructure. Continuing with the transition of workloads to the cloud, this leader will play a critical role in designing and implementing the technology, processes, platforms and operational discipline that are required to meet the next phase of our strategic business goals. This highly visible role will collaborate with technology and business leaders to define the roadmap for platform solution requirements. The Sr. Director, Cloud Engineering is accountable for the service level and performance of the company’s cloud platforms and has a direct hand in driving positive user outcomes.\nEssential Functions\nStrategic Vison, Planning, Standards Ownership and Oversight - In collaboration with the VP of Infrastructure Engineering, develop, implement and manage Early Warning’s cloud systems vision, architecture, standards and strategy, making strategic decisions about the development and modification of cloud applications and services. Ensure these plans align, augment and accelerate Early Warning’s long term corporate strategic direction and achievement of business goals. \nBe the voice of cloud infrastructure - Provide senior stewardship of the various cloud functions and implement multi-year strategies. Be adept at identifying and presenting enterprise opportunities to continually enhance how cloud infrastructure can better support the business. Be constantly reducing technical debt. \nLead a multi-disciplined, high-performance team - Provide exceptional leadership in developing highly engaged, high-performance cloud leadership teams to deliver against departmental and company objectives. \nOwn the outcome - Develop a plan for a phased evolution from current to future state with key milestones and measures of success in the areas of platform performance, security, flexibility, customer experience, efficiency and cost. \nInfluence functional strategy - Partner with other departments to understand technical solutions to presenting challenges and help define ROI to proposed solutions. \nCross functional partnerships - Collaborate closely with security teams across the organization to align on policies, manage risk and support solution development. Partner with Finance to monitor and optimize cloud expenditure, ensuring aligning with budgetary goals and financial strategies. \nManage risk effectively - Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data by ensuring system and data confidentiality, observability, and availability is maintained. Support adherence with relevant regulatory and compliance standards and obligations. \nInnovation and Best Practices - Maintain up-to-date, extensive knowledge of cloud products, technology and best practices, pursing solutions or alternatives to best meet the businesses needs while complying with and ensuring all regulatory requirements are met. \nPerformance Monitoring - Develop and implement processes and standards to inspect and audit Early Warning’s cloud procedures and approaches, ensuring comprehensive documentation of processes, standards and practices to support consistency and knowledge sharing. \nMinimum Qualifications\nEducation and experience typically obtained through completion of a bachelor's degree in computer information systems/computer science \n15 or more years of experience managing complex cloud infrastructure including at least 8 years of leadership experience. \nUser-first mindset that is highly focused on business outcomes in a dynamic, cross functional environment. \nExtensive experience designing and managing scalable solutions using AWS services \nHigh degree of cross-functional cloud experience spanning architecture, security, implementation, DevOps and operations.\nStrong experience with AWS environment \nDeveloping and operating platforms (IaaS, PaaS, and/or SaaS) at Web-scale \nLeveraging cloud infrastructure to deliver highly performant and secure microservice based solutions. \nAbility to mentor and energize people showcasing technical and leadership skills \nDeep understanding on how cloud computing integrates within the business and how the sub-functions collectively integrate within the function to achieve optimized outcomes \nStrong familiarity with DevOps & SRE best practices to improve velocity and operational reliability \nExcellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills. Must convey responsiveness and competence when dealing with internal customers, staff, peers, senior management, and vendors. Work experience that demonstrates a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive. \nBackground and drug screen. \nThe base pay scale for this position in:\nChicago, IL in USD per year is: $206,000 - $275,000.\nAdditionally, candidates are eligible for a discretionary incentive plan and benefits.\nThis pay scale is subject to change and is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any specific candidate, which is always dependent on legitimate factors considered at the time of job offer. Early Warning Services takes into consideration a variety of factors when determining a competitive salary offer, including, but not limited to, the job scope, market rates and geographic location of a position, candidate’s education, experience, training, and specialized skills or certification(s) in relation to the job requirements and compared with internal equity (peers). The business actively supports and reviews wage equity to ensure that pay decisions are not based on gender, race, national origin, or any other protected classes.\nPhysical Requirements\nWorking conditions consist of a normal office environment. Work is primarily sedentary and requires extensive use of a computer and involves sitting for periods of approximately four hours. Work may require occasional standing, walking, kneeling and reaching. Must be able to lift 10 pounds occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently. Requires visual acuity and dexterity to view, prepare, and manipulate documents and office equipment including personal computers. Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers.\nEmployee must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of position with or without reasonable accommodation.\nCandidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States at the date of hire.\nThe above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position.\nSome of the Ways We Prioritize Your Health and Happiness\nHealthcare 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.\n\n401(k) Retirement Plan - Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.\n\nPaid Time Off - Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.\n\n12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave\n\nMaven Family Planning - provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.\n\nAnd SO muchmore! We continue to enhance our program, so be sure to check our Benefits page here for the latest. Our team canshare more during the interview process!\nEarly Warning Services, LLC (“Early Warning”) considers for employment, hires, retains and promotes qualified candidates on the basis of ability, potential, and valid qualifications without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other bases such as medical condition, marital status or any other factor that is irrelevant to the performance of our employees.\nEarly Warning Services LLC is a proud participant in E-Verify, a federal program to help ensure a legal and authorized workforce. As part of our hiring process, we electronically verify the employment eligibility of all new hires through E-Verify. 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