Cloud Engineer II

Pathward, N.A.; Sioux Falls (SD); Hybrid; USD 72,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) retirement benefits

Life insurance

Disability benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Pathward, N.A. is seeking a Cloud Engineer to optimize, automate, and support our AWS cloud environments. You will provision, maintain, troubleshoot, and enhance the AWS infrastructure to ensure reliability, scalability, and security, collaborating with Architecture and DevOps teams.

Responsibilities include designing AWS cloud solutions, monitoring resources and security posture, and implementing IaC with CloudFormation or Terraform. On‑call rotation is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and work experience.
• Typically 3+ years with bachelor's or equivalent.
• AWS expertise with hands-on experience.
• Knowledge of IAM, VPC, Security Groups, NACLs and networking.

Responsibilities

• Creates cloud strategy and adapts it to the organization.
• Designs, plans, maintains, and supports AWS cloud environment.
• Monitors cloud resources, performance, and security posture; evaluates cloud solutions.

Skills

AWS expertise

Cloud security

IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform)

AWS monitoring (CloudWatch/CloudTrail)

On-call experience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

CloudFormation

Terraform

Job description

We are a hybrid, remote-office company dedicated to growing our talent anywhere!

We have onsite locations in: Sioux Falls, SD, Scottsdale, AZ, Louisville, KY, Troy, MI, Franklin, TN, Easton, PA.

At Pathward, we take tremendous pride in our purpose to create financial inclusion for all™. We are a financial empowerment company that works with innovators to increase financial availability, choice, and opportunity for all. We strive to remove barriers that traditional institutions put in the way of financial access, and promote economic mobility by providing responsible, secure, high quality financial products.

We are a team of problem solvers and innovators who celebrate our differences and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger and well-positioned for success. We celebrate, and embrace, our team members through our*HUMBLE*HUNGRY*SMART approach, and we believe that we are strongest when we embrace the voices of our employees, customers, partners, and the communities we serve.

About the Role

We are seeking a talented and experienced Cloud Engineer to join our team and play a pivotal role in the optimization, automation, and support of our AWS cloud environments. As a Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for the provision, maintenance, troubleshooting, and enhancement of our AWS infrastructure, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security. You will collaborate closely with Architecture, DevOps, and other cross-functional teams to align with our business objectives and deliver cutting-edge cloud solutions.

What You Will Do

• Creates a well-informed cloud strategy and manages the adaption process.
• Designs, plans, manages, maintains, and supports, and any other technological duties associated with the organization’s cloud computing environment.
• Monitors the consumption of cloud resources, requests fulfillment turnaround, application performance, and systems security posture and evaluate cloud applications, hardware, and software as needed.
• Designs technical solutions on AWS public cloud environments, creating functional design specifications, reference architectures, and other technical specifications.
• Works cross-functionally with multiple teams to analyze cloud service provider SLAs, KRI, and KPI metrics. Collaborates with Engineering teams to enable their applications to run on applicable Cloud Platform. Works closely with IT security to monitor the company's cloud privacy.
• On-Call Rotation: Part of a team that rotates on-call duties for production-critical events in AWS.
• Other duties as assigned.

What You Will Need

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and work experience.
• Typically 3+ years with bachelor's or equivalent.
• AWS Expertise: A minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience working with AWS.
• AWS Services: Working knowledge of key AWS services, including but not limited to EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, IAM, Lambda, and CloudWatch.
• Security: Strong understanding of AWS security best practices and experience implementing security measures, including Identity and Access Management (IAM) and network security.
• Network Configuration: Experience with AWS network infrastructure, including VPCs, security groups, NACLs, and familiarity with routing, VPNs, and Direct Connect.
• Monitoring and Logging: Experience with monitoring and logging tools like AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and familiarity with third-party monitoring solutions.
• High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Knowledge of AWS services and best practices for achieving high availability and disaster recovery.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, or similar technologies
• Initiative: Actively participate in identifying changes in technology, processes, and procedures that improve team and company effectiveness and performance.
• Self Discipline: Staying focused, motivated, organized, and present in a remote work environment, managing time effectively, adhering to schedules, avoiding distractions.
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
• Team Player: Strong team collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative environment.
• Continuous Learning: A commitment to staying updated with the latest AWS services and industry best practices.

Salary range: $72,000 – $120,000

The salary range reflects the minimum and maximum target for a new hire in this role. Individual pay within the range will be determined by multiple factors which can include but are not limited to a candidate’s experience, qualifications, skills, and location. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary for your location during the hiring process. Ranges may be modified in the future.

This role is also eligible for an annual performance-based incentive opportunity. Pathward offers a comprehensive benefits package for eligible employees, including health insurance, 401(k) retirement benefits, life insurance, disability benefits, paid time off, and more.

Pathward is an equal employment opportunity employer and considers candidates for roles without regard to their race, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability or any other category protected by law.

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Who we are

Our commitment to inclusion is woven into our DNA. We believe that we are strongest when we embrace the voices of our employees, customers, partners, and the communities we serve.

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, pregnancy, national origin, age (age 40 and over), disability, genetic information, marital status, hair texture or hairstyle, ancestry, service in the uniformed services, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence or any other class protected by federal, state and local laws.

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