Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer - Payments Infrastructure

Job Description

Are you ready to write your next chapter?

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We're looking for a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer - Payment Infrastructure to join our Platforms team and help us unleash the potential of every business.

What you'll own as the Senior AWS Cloud Engineer - Payment Infrastructure

We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to join our infrastructure team and help drive the performance, scalability, and cost efficiency of our cloud-based payments platform. This role is critical to ensuring the reliability and sustainability of our infrastructure as we continue to grow. The ideal candidate has a strong background in AWS operations, cost management, and platform observability.

• Own the performance and availability of our AWS-hosted payments infrastructure; define and monitor SLIs/SLOs for uptime, latency, and error rates.

• Use AWS Cost Explorer, CloudZero, and Cloudability to track, forecast, and optimize cloud spend; implement tagging, budgeting, and accountability frameworks across teams.

• Instrument and monitor key platform metrics including response time, resource utilization, and throughput using Datadog and AWS CloudWatch.

• Tune cloud services for efficiency; drive improvements in auto-scaling, instance sizing, and network performance.

• Design and maintain scalable infrastructure using IAC such as Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation to support consistent deployments and resource governance.

• Contribute to the design of scalable, reliable, and secure cloud solutions using AWS native services.

• Build and deploy AWS solutions leveraging services such as RDS/Aurora, Athena, Glue, and containerized workloads (ECS, EKS, or Fargate).

• Partner with engineering, product, finance, and security teams to ensure cloud environments are performant, secure, and cost-effective.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers and peers.

• Stay up-to-date with AWS advancements and continuously seek opportunities to improve our cloud architecture and processes.

What you'll bring

• 5+ years managing production AWS environments, with deep understanding of core services (EC2, RDS, S3, ECS, Lambda, etc.).

• Hands-on experience with AWS Cost Explorer, Cloudability, or CloudZero for cloud spend analysis and forecasting.

• Proficiency in Datadog for monitoring, tracing, and log analysis; familiarity with CloudWatch and distributed tracing techniques.

• Strong background in tuning application and infrastructure performance in large-scale, real-time environments.

• Experience with FinOps practices to drive cloud cost visibility, accountability, and continuous improvement.

• Skilled in infrastructure automation and CI/CD processes using modern tools and frameworks.

• Hands-on experience deploying and managing containerized applications (Docker, ECS, EKS, Fargate).

• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (PHP, Python, Java, Node.js, Go, etc.).

• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.

It's a bonus if you have

• AWS Certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or Advanced Networking).

• Experience with PCI compliance and secure architecture patterns.

• Background supporting payments or high-throughput financial systems.

• Experience in SRE or platform engineering roles with metrics-driven reliability goals.

• Familiarity with data engineering/analytics and big data architectures on AWS.

• Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments.

• Experience mentoring or leading engineering teams.

• Experience with cloud migration: Knowledge of migrating applications and data to the cloud.

• Experience with database administration: Knowledge of database systems and their deployment in the cloud.

• Ability to troubleshoot issues and optimize cloud solutions.

About the team

The Product and Technology Development teams make the payments magic happen. They're the brains behind the game-changing products, platforms and digital experiences we're known for.

To learn more about our winning teams, check out our world-class teams that own it every day.

What makes a Worldpayer

What makes a Worldpayer? It's simple: Think, Act, Win. We stay curious, always asking the right questions and finding creative solutions to simplify the complex. We're dynamic, every Worldpayer is empowered to make the right decisions for their customers. And we're determined, always staying open and winning and failing as one.

Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Worldpayer. Apply now to write the next chapter in your career.

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