Cloud Engineer

Wealth Partners; Palmdale (CA); On-site; USD 94,000 - 136,000; Full time

Job summary

Wealth Partners Corp is seeking a mid-level Cloud Engineer for a temporary role in Palmdale, CA. You will own cloud infrastructure work focused on Terraform and AWS ECS, delivering reliable tooling and robust deployment practices.

The position emphasizes ownership, mentorship, and quick onboarding to support a high-velocity Palmdale launch. You will collaborate with product and engineering to translate requirements into technical tasks, and you will help stabilize systems during critical spikes

Qualifications

• Strong cloud engineering foundation with a focus on AWS.
• Ability to work independently with minimal oversight.
• Comfort presenting to broad audiences.
• Mentor teammates and share knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Ensure code quality with automated linting, tests, and static analysis.
• Build internal tooling to boost developer productivity and velocity.
• Negotiate Terraform tradeoffs with product when timelines collide.
• Translate business requirements into technical tasks.
• Tune caching and stabilize on Palmdale launch spike.
• Document Disaster Recovery to onboard future engineers quickly.
• Refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt.

Job description

Code that ships to millions starts as a pull request on someone's screen, and at Wealth Partners we want that someone to be our next Cloud Engineer. A temporary Cloud Engineer role that values ownership over busywork, pays $94,000 - $136,000, and invests in your long-term growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure code quality through automated linting, testing, and static analysis
• Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity
• Negotiate Terraform tradeoffs with product when Wealth Partners timelines and reality collide
• Translate collaborative business requirements into technical specifications and tasks
• Tune Flexibility caching so Wealth Partners survives the Palmdale launch spike on the same hardware
• Document the Disaster Recovery system so the next mid-level engineer onboards in days, not weeks
• Reach into legacy Disaster Recovery modules and leave them cleaner than you found them
• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time

What You'll Bring

• Strong working knowledge of Amazon ECS and Terraform
• Real Amazon ECS chops, plus the Terraform curiosity to keep growing
• Self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal oversight
• Comfort presenting to a CA-wide audience without a script
• Demonstrated ability to teach what you know to someone greener
• Demonstrated wins in technology work somewhere near Palmdale, CA

Wealth Partners blends Work-Life Balance and Flexibility into technology products that feel, in the bias-to-action words of its Palmdale, CA founders, inevitable. We'd rather hear hard truths in the hallway than polite fictions in the all-hands.

This mid-level role pays $94,000 - $136,000 and comes with structured mentorship designed to sharpen your Flexibility and Terraform over time.