3 months ago
Base Salary
$200k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, deploy, operate, and evolve production AWS infrastructure for high-availability financial services workloads.
- Own Terraform infrastructure-as-code standards, reusable modules, state management practices, and code review processes.
- Lead the Kubernetes/EKS platform strategy, including cluster upgrades, node architecture, Helm governance, GitOps, service mesh evolution, and autoscaling.
- Improve CI/CD platforms and enable safe, fast, self-service deployments for application engineering teams.
- Design disaster recovery, cross-region failover, backup automation, high-availability architecture, and DR simulation exercises.
- Define platform observability using Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and OpenSearch, including SLO/SLI, alerting, and tracing standards.
- Serve as a senior on-call escalation point, lead critical incident root-cause analysis, and drive systemic remediation.
- Own capacity planning, resource saturation reviews, FinOps, cloud cost optimization, and vendor spend governance.
- Define AWS security, IAM, encryption, secrets management, networking, load balancing, CDN, DNS, compliance, and vulnerability remediation standards.
- Architect AI/ML infrastructure and govern AI-powered developer tools, including GPU compute, SageMaker, Bedrock, vector databases, and AIOps automation.
- Build internal platforms and golden paths that improve developer productivity and reduce operational toil.
- Lead cross-functional infrastructure initiatives, architecture reviews, technical strategy, documentation, hiring, mentoring, and engineering-wide planning.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of hands-on cloud infrastructure engineering experience with deep production AWS expertise.
- End-to-end ownership of infrastructure initiatives from architecture and design through rollout and operations.
- Expert Terraform proficiency, including module design, state management, and IaC standards.
- Extensive Kubernetes production experience at scale, preferably with EKS, including cluster lifecycle management, multi-tenancy, Helm, and GitOps.
- Strong Linux systems engineering and advanced scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go.
- Deep experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and Jenkins.
- Advanced cloud networking and security knowledge, including VPC, Transit Gateway, DNS, load balancing, IAM, KMS, WAF, GuardDuty, and Secrets Manager.
- Experience operating observability platforms such as Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, CloudWatch, and OpenSearch/ELK at organizational scale.
- Strong database infrastructure and data-layer architecture experience with Aurora PostgreSQL, RDS, ElastiCache/Redis, OpenSearch, or DynamoDB.
- Experience designing disaster recovery, conducting DR simulations, and building highly available mission-critical systems.
- Strong technical communication, architecture documentation, leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Preferred qualifications include 7+ years of infrastructure or platform engineering experience and 3+ years at a senior or staff level.
- Preferred qualifications include financial services or regulated-industry experience, relevant AWS certifications, Amazon MSK/Kafka, API gateways, AI/ML infrastructure, policy as code, FinOps, technical writing, or open-source contributions.
Benefits
- Hybrid schedule with three days per week onsite in the San Francisco Financial District office.
- Competitive pay and equity for eligible positions.
- Premium HMO and PPO healthcare, dental, and vision insurance plans.
- 401(k) savings plan with a 4% match and immediate vesting.
- Sixteen weeks of paid parental leave after one year of employment.
- Professional development opportunities, an employee mobility program, and an annual learning and development budget.
- Company perks program with discounts on pet insurance, fitness, mobile phone plans, travel, and other services.
- Financial guidance and counseling program.
- One month work-from-anywhere policy, except in certain countries.
- Amenity-filled offices in Culver City, San Francisco, and Dallas.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBApache KafkaAWSBashDatadogGitHub ActionsGoGrafanaHelmJenkinsKubernetesPrometheusPythonRedisTerraformVault
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About Altruist
Altruist is the platform of choice for RIAs who want better outcomes, responsive service, lower fees, and more time to do the real work of advising clients. We offer intuitive software for account opening, trading, reporting, billing, and over 22 integrations, empowering advisors of all sizes to grow and scale client-centric practices. Since launch in 2018, we’ve grown to the third-largest custodian by advisors served, with nearly 5,000 advisors trusting us to safeguard client assets.