Cloud Engineer II
About The Position
The Cloud Engineer II will report to the Director of Infrastructure As the Cloud Engineer II, you will: 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 Your Impact: As a Cloud Engineer II, you will help power the cloud infrastructure behind Earnest’s lending platform—where reliability, security, and performance directly support customer trust in a regulated fintech environment. You’ll take ownership of defined infrastructure domains within a modern, cloud-first ecosystem built on infrastructure-as-code, strong observability, and security-first principles. Working alongside senior engineers, you’ll strengthen system reliability, reduce operational toil through automation, and continuously improve the scalability and resilience of mission-critical financial system; growing your expertise while contributing to a high-ownership, collaborative engineering 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
Nice To Haves
- A reliability-first mindset and a strong sense of ownership over the systems you support
- A bias toward automation and reducing operational toil
- Systems thinking — you look for root causes and durable improvements, not quick fixes
- An interest in cloud security best practices and operating in regulated environment
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
