Staff Infrastructure Engineer
About The Position
Savvy Wealth is a rapidly growing Series B company in the wealth management industry, aiming to modernize the financial advisor experience with AI-native technology. We partner with independent financial advisors, providing them with a comprehensive business-in-a-box solution that includes a proprietary tech platform, client portal, marketing support, investment management, and client services. Our platform runs on AWS and EKS, and we are looking for our first dedicated infrastructure engineer to own and scale our cloud platform. This role will involve setting the technical direction for our AWS and EKS footprint, defining infrastructure standards, improving operational practices, managing stateful systems, and building tools to enable product engineers. A significant part of the role will also focus on supporting the infrastructure for our AI coding agents and LLM workloads, working directly with product engineers to solve complex problems.
Requirements
- 3+ years of production Kubernetes ownership, including upgrades, control plane, networking, and incident management.
- Experience inheriting and managing existing infrastructure, with the ability to assess, retain, or replace components.
- Experience working in small infrastructure teams (five or fewer) with significant impact and responsibility.
- Proven ability to build software, such as controllers, CLIs, deploy systems, or internal services.
- Deep expertise in Terraform or OpenTofu, including module design, state management, and drift detection.
- Experience managing stateful systems in production, specifically Postgres (connection management, upgrades, failover).
- Proficiency in CI/CD and observability practices, focusing on actionable insights.
- Fluency with agentic coding tools like Claude Code or Codex, and experience with infrastructure for LLM and agent workloads.
Nice To Haves
- Experience operating Rails, Sidekiq, or similar stateful monolithic applications.
- Background in Fintech or regulated industries (financial services, wealth management, compliance-constrained infrastructure).
- Experience migrating from a managed PaaS to self-managed infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Set architecture and technical direction for our AWS and EKS footprint, including cluster topology, networking, IAM boundaries, and cost.
- Review existing infrastructure, identify areas for improvement, and plan remediation strategies.
- Define OpenTofu module structure, state management, deploy contract, and establish patterns for all engineers.
- Build out SLOs, effective alerting, incident response processes, and on-call practices.
- Manage production stateful systems including Postgres, Redis, and job processing, covering upgrades, failover, and capacity.
- Develop tooling and internal services to simplify platform usage for product engineers.
- Assist in the design and operation of the compute layer for coding agents and LLM workloads.
- Mentor engineers transitioning from part-time infrastructure work to full-time operational roles.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity package
- Unlimited PTO + paid company holidays
- Holistic medical, dental, and vision plans
- Company 401(k)
- Commuter benefits
- HSA/FSA plans
- NYC office in the heart of Manhattan
- Lunch and snacks provided in the office
- Access to virtual mental health care (Spring Health)
- Health concierge (Rightway)
- Access to counseling for stress management, dependent care, nutrition, fitness, legal, and financial issues (Guardian WorkLifeMatters EAP)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
