Job Description
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Company Overview
The organization is developing an AI-powered platform for wealth management professionals, helping financial advisors improve operational efficiency, manage resources, and deliver better client outcomes. Its technology supports financial services operations where security, reliability, regulatory compliance, and scalable infrastructure are essential.
Responsibilities
Team Leadership and Engineering Strategy
- Lead, coach, and develop cloud, DevOps, and database reliability engineers across local and offshore teams.
- Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, establish career development plans, manage performance, and support recruitment.
- Own the Cloud Engineering roadmap and guide the delivery of strategic infrastructure initiatives.
- Make architectural decisions that shape the organization’s AWS infrastructure and support long-term scalability and reliability.
Cloud Infrastructure and Reliability
- Build and maintain secure, highly available, observable infrastructure that enables product teams to deploy and operate services independently.
- Oversee a governed Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) platform supporting broker-dealer and clearing systems.
- Lead disaster recovery initiatives targeting a recovery time objective (RTO) of 60 minutes or less and a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes or less.
- Coordinate PostgreSQL upgrades and edge gateway consolidation.
- Improve infrastructure reliability, performance, and resilience across production environments.
Qualifications
Experience and Technical Expertise
- At least 6 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering.
- At least 2 years of experience managing engineers within a B2B financial services, fintech, or SaaS organization.
- Deep expertise in AWS networking, identity and access management (IAM), compute, storage, and production-scale cost management.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes, particularly EKS, and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and Helm.
- Experience with GitOps delivery using Argo CD.
- Hands-on ownership of CI/CD pipelines, including GitLab, artifact management, secrets management with Vault, and release safety practices.
- Experience operating production on-call rotations and serving as a senior escalation point for technical incidents.
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, SLOs, and error budgets for operational decision-making.
People Leadership and Professional Skills
- Proven ability to hire, develop, and retain engineers, including remote and offshore team members.
- Strong ownership, accountability, and technical judgment.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to listen effectively and communicate complex technical decisions.
- Resilience and adaptability when addressing challenging operational and engineering problems.
- Creative problem-solving skills and the ability to identify practical solutions to technical roadblocks.
- Ability to learn and work effectively with modern technology stacks, including Kubernetes, Kafka, Temporal, PostgreSQL, and Snowflake.
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field is preferred, although equivalent practical experience is also valued.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with AI engineering best practices, including Claude, and deploying AI-assisted workflows across engineering teams.
- Experience operating in regulated environments, including SOC 1, SOC 2, FINRA, or SEC examinations, and automating compliance evidence.
- Hands-on experience with Kong, Envoy, or Gateway API for edge infrastructure.
- Advanced PostgreSQL operational experience, including upgrades, replication, change data capture, and performance tuning.
- Familiarity with Teleport, Vault, Karpenter, and policy engines such as OPA Gatekeeper or Kyverno.
- Experience conducting disaster recovery tabletop exercises and GameDays.
- Knowledge of brokerage platforms and financial services operations.
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