Staff/Principal Cloud Engineer

**About the Role

We are looking for a strong, driven, and self-starting Cloud Engineer to join a fast-moving team, and lead the hardening of the infrastructure that supports a sophisticated financial data platform. You'll work closely with our CTO, Director of Engineering, and Platform team to support the services and applications that extract meaningful data from both structured and unstructured complex finance documents and deliver them to our clients.

You will own the AWS infrastructure where our applications and services reside. You will also own our CI/CD pipelines that enable our engineers to deploy quickly and reliably. You will work closely with our Platform team to setup, organize, and optimize the cloud services where our products operate.

Reports to: Director of Engineering

What You'll Do

• Own and manage our AWS infrastructure across both single tenant production and multi-tenant UAT environments. You will manage our cloud networks and services using Terraform.
• Work with Engineering to build and deploy scalable, reliable, and cost-effective cloud-based solutions
• Design, build, and improve our DevOps posture, including CI/CD pipelines, and assisting with repo and package management
• Improve our site reliability, observability, and resiliency, and help support our on-call process

What We're Looking For

Required:

• 9+ years of experience in a start-up, financial institution, and/or technology company
• Strong experience with AWS, Kubernetes, IaC (Terraform), and cloud networking
• Strong understanding of Docker, ECR (or equivalent), and container orchestration
• Experience with GitLab and GitLab CI (or equivalents)
• Experience with observability platforms (Datadog)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

You are:

• Self-directed and driven. You don't wait to be told what to do next; you bring ideas to the table
• A clear communicator who can work well across technical and non-technical teams
• Organized and adaptable in a fast-paced environment

Nice to have:

• Experience working with financial data and clients
• GitLab, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodePipeline
• Familiarity with Python repo and package management, including mise, wheel, and/or uv **