Cloud Engineer II

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Cloud Engineer II responsible for managing AWS infrastructure supporting high-availability production systems at Earnest, a fintech company. Collaborating to enhance reliability, performance, and security standards.

Responsibilities:

  • Own and improve AWS infrastructure components supporting high-availability production systems, contributing to reliability, performance, and security standards.
  • Strengthen reliability and observability by improving SLOs, monitoring, alerting, automation, and reducing MTTR through durable post-incident fixes.
  • Build and enhance infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD systems (Terraform, Ansible, modern tooling) to improve scalability, deployment safety, and developer experience.
  • Drive operational excellence through automation, cost optimization (FinOps awareness), strong documentation, and active participation in a blameless on-call culture

Requirements:

  • 3+ years of experience supporting production cloud infrastructure in modern environments
  • Strong Linux/UNIX fundamentals and hands-on experience operating systems in production
  • Practical experience with AWS and core cloud services in high-availability environments
  • Experience building and maintaining infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or similar
  • Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, or comparable systems)
  • Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS) and how they apply in distributed systems
  • Experience supporting relational databases in production environments

Benefits:

  • Health, Dental, & Vision benefits plus savings plans
  • Mac computers + work-from-home stipend to set up your home office
  • Monthly internet and phone reimbursement
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
  • 401(k) plan to help you save for retirement plus a company match
  • Robust tuition reimbursement program
  • $1,000 travel perk on each Earnie-versary to anywhere in the world
  • Competitive days of annual PTO
  • Competitive parental leave