Sr. Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineer

U.S. Bank • Atlanta, GA

1d • $111,605 - $131,300 • Hybrid

About The Position

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
• Five to six years of relevant experience
• Strong expertise in AWS cloud services, including compute, networking, storage, security, container, and serverless technologies.
• Deep knowledge of Terraform, CloudFormation, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices.
• Experience designing, deploying, and operating Kubernetes environments, including Amazon EKS, Helm, service mesh, container security, and cluster optimization.
• Advanced experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, and modern DevOps practices.
• Strong proficiency in Linux administration, automation, and scripting using Python, Bash, and PowerShell.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices, including Tenable, BlackDuck/Fortify, SonarQube, IAM, secrets management, certificate automation, and cloud security controls.
• Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Datadog, CloudWatch, logging, tracing, and alerting frameworks, with the ability to support compliance requirements such as PCI DSS, HIPAA/HITRUST, or similar regulatory standards.

Nice To Haves

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect and/or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
• Experience supporting banking, payments, healthcare, or other highly regulated environments.
• Experience with Datadog, Venafi, cloud security platforms, and enterprise observability solutions.
• Background in platform modernization, cloud migration, and large-scale infrastructure transformation initiatives.
• Exposure to AI-assisted engineering, automation tooling, and developer productivity platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, influence architecture decisions, and drive operational excellence initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) to support scalable, secure, and highly available platforms.
• Architect and operate multi-region AWS environments, ensuring resiliency, fault tolerance, and business continuity.
• Manage and optimize core AWS services including EKS, ECS, EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, Route 53, VPC, and IAM.
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab, and Jenkins to enable efficient and reliable software delivery.
• Develop automation solutions using Python, Bash, and PowerShell to streamline infrastructure provisioning, deployments, testing, and operational processes.
• Build, administer, and enhance Kubernetes platforms on Amazon EKS, including Helm charts, ingress controllers, service mesh, and container security controls.
• Implement enterprise-grade observability and reliability practices utilizing Datadog, CloudWatch, logging, tracing, monitoring, and alerting solutions to improve operational excellence.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis efforts while collaborating with engineering teams to improve platform resiliency, security, performance, and operational maturity.

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree