Principal Cloud Architect

Monet Service, Inc • Plano, TX

8h

About The Position

Monet Bank is pioneering the future of banking and money movement — faster, more efficient, and built for the modern financial ecosystem. At our core, we believe Monet Bank is an essential bridge to the next generation of banking and payments infrastructure. As a profitable, well-capitalized Texas state-chartered bank and FDIC-Insured — backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government — Monet combines the strength and stability of traditional banking with forward-thinking financial technology innovation. If you are motivated by building secure, intentional, and future-ready banking infrastructure, we invite you to explore opportunities with Monet Bank.

We're a small, fast-moving bank, and our cloud environment is core to everything we build. As a Senior Cloud Architect, you'll own our AWS environment end to end — designing it, running it, securing it, and setting the standards we grow into. This is a hands-on role with real autonomy and unusually direct impact: you won't be one architect among many, you'll be our cloud function. If you like the pace of a startup but want the substance of building resilient, compliant infrastructure for a regulated bank, this is that role.

Requirements

• 8-10 years in IT (at least 5 years in cloud architecture or infrastructure roles)
• Strong, hands-on cloud experience, including demonstrated AWS delivery.
• Deep AWS expertise across compute, storage, networking, and databases.
• Hands-on with Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD.
• Strong cloud network and security design: VPC, encryption, and identity and access management.
• Comfortable operating with autonomy in a small, fast-paced environment and wearing multiple hats.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field is required.

Nice To Haves

• AWS certification (Solutions Architect – Professional).
• Edge security/CDN and observability tooling.
• Experience administering or governing enterprise AI platforms (e.g., OpenAI/ChatGPT).
• Financial services or other regulated-industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, operate, and secure Monet's entire AWS environment.
• Lead the migration and modernization path for key workloads to the cloud.
• Establish automation, resilience, and cost standards for the team.
• Design and operate scalable, secure, cost-effective AWS architectures across compute, storage, data, and networking.
• Lead cloud migration and modernization with minimal disruption to the business.
• Drive Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD so provisioning is consistent, repeatable, and auditable.
• Own monitoring, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and cost optimization; design backup and multi-region failover strategies.
• Maintain clear architecture documentation and data-flow diagrams for operations and audit.
• Define and enforce cloud security standards (network design, encryption, and identity & access management) aligned to banking regulations.
• Partner with Security and Risk to keep the architecture compliant by design.
• Work directly across a small, cross-functional team, and help establish engineering standards as the team grows.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and manage key cloud vendor relationships.
• Administer Monet's AI platforms (Claude / ChatGPT): user provisioning and access controls, SSO/identity integration, and usage guidelines and security guardrails for responsible, compliant AI use in a regulated environment.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• 401K with company match
• 10 paid holidays
• Accrue up to 17 vacation/sick days per year in your first year on a pro rata basis
• Applicant may be eligible for annual discretionary bonus

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior