Job Description

Are you looking to build a career in the financial services sector using your cloud skills to help migrate and support applications in the cloud? Are you ready to unleash your potential in a global business that is committed to moving money for better? Join Western Union as Senior Cloud Engineer.

Motivated by our values: purpose driven, globally minded, and trustworthy & respectful

We’re a FinTech that’s using insight from customers and colleagues worldwide to improve financial services for families, small businesses, multinational corporations, and non-profit organizations. We’re a team of over 10,000 people spanning 200 countries and territories. We believe when money moves, better things happen.

Relentless Pursuit of Better 

In this role, you will be a member of a cross-functional team working with multiple groups to migrate applications from the data center to our multi-cloud environment. 

You will be reviewing existing application architecture to building the infrastructure to support the application as it migrates following established best practices.  You will help automate environment deployments through the use of IaC and automated CI/CD pipeline components.  You will take a holistic view of the environment to identify common infrastructure components. 

Ideally, you will have a Bachelor’s in Engineering, Information Technology or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.  You will have 8+ years of disciplined software engineering and/or IT operations experience in design, development and implementation of highly scalable, high volume software systems and components, client-facing web applications and major internet-oriented applications and systems.  You will also have 5+ years of Infrastructure experience in Linux/Unix and Windows.  You will have solid experience with container technologies such as Kubernetes and solid experience with Microservices architecture.  You’ll have experience with current scripting and development languages such as Perl, Python, Ruby, Go, JavaScript of Java.   Experience building FinOps capabilities in a plus.

Join us, and let’s move money for better

Western Union is transforming its business and shaping the financial services sector by driving quality, convenience, and customer service to new levels of excellence. It’s an exciting time for our organization, as the largest cross-border money transfer operator, trusted by millions of consumers around the world. If you’re ready to unleash your potential to help drive change through bottom-up innovation, apply now.

We’re a company on the move, and we want our people to grow and develop. You’ll have plenty of opportunities to learn new skills and build a career, as well as a great salary and benefits package.

We are passionate about our diversity. Our commitment is to provide an inclusive culture that celebrates the unique backgrounds and perspectives of our global teams, while reflecting the communities we serve. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, political affiliation, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, or veteran status.