Cloud Engineering Manager

Altruist; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 181,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

Altruist is seeking a Cloud Engineering Manager to lead the Cloud Infrastructure & Platform team. You will guide engineers building an IaS platform across products, ensuring high availability, security, and observability.

This role is hands-on: set roadmaps, conduct 1:1s, hire, review Terraform, participate in incident reviews, and shape the AWS footprint for the next three years. This hybrid role requires onsite three days/week in San Francisco FiDi or Culver City, with collaboration across

Qualifications

• 6+ years in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE, incl. 2+ years leading engineers in B2B fintech/SaaS
• Deep AWS expertise across networking, IAM, compute, storage, cost management
• Strong Kubernetes (EKS) and IaC experience — Terraform, Helm, GitOps (ArgoCD)
• CI/CD ownership with GitLab pipelines, secrets management (Vault) and safe releases
• Operates production on-call rotations; observability with OpenTelemetry, SLOs, error budgets
• Proven people leadership, hiring, and mentoring of remote/offshore teams
• Knowledge of brokerage platforms and financial services industry
• Experience in regulated environments — SOC 1/2, FINRA/SEC examinations

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a cloud, DevOps, and database reliability team across locales
• Own Cloud Engineering roadmap: governed EKS, DR, Postgres upgrades, edge gateway consolidation
• Drive software supply chain security and SDLC hygiene with SBOMs, provenance, hardened images
• Own cloud on-call rotation, incident response, runbooks, blameless post-mortems
• Improve developer experience and optimize cloud spend with cost visibility
• Represent Cloud Engineering in audits and regulatory reviews with automated evidence
• Mentor engineers on secure infrastructure and resilient design

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

DevOps

SRE leadership

AWS expert

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform

CI/CD ownership

Observability

Security & compliance

AI practices

Regulated environment

Leadership & mentoring

Education

Bachelor in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Helm

GitOps (ArgoCD)

GitLab

Vault

Kong

Envoy

Teleport

Karpenter

Job description

Altruist is transforming the multi-trillion dollar wealth management industry by building an AI platform for wealth professionals. We partner with financial advisors nationwide, empowering them to grow, optimize time and resources, and deliver superior outcomes for their clients.

We're looking for exceptional talent to help us achieve our mission of making financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to all. If you're passionate about challenging the status quo and want to do the most important work of your life, we'd love to meet you!

But first, our values

Kindness - Kindness doesn’t just equal niceness. We listen to understand. We embrace, and encourage healthy debate and diverse perspectives. We approach conflict openly, honestly, and respectfully.

Brilliance - Humility is the skill we’re most proud of and possessing a growth mindset is always top of mind. We take ownership in everything we touch; regularly using our unique superpowers to reach a common goal as a team. We succeed and fail as one.

Grit - When challenges arise, we stay laser focused on achieving our mission and finding a way forward, even when it’s hard. We are nimble and maintain a sense of urgency, swiftly adapting to change and overcoming obstacles.

About the position

Altruist is in the midst of an exceptional growth phase and we’re excited to hire a high performing Cloud Engineering Manager to lead our Cloud Infrastructure & Platform team. In this role, you will lead the engineers who build Infrastructure as a Service for every product team at Altruist — infrastructure that is highly available, secure, and observable, with self‑service paths that let developers move without waiting on us. You will collaborate closely with engineering leadership, Platform, SRE, Security, and Data Platform to eliminate operational bottlenecks and keep our broker‑dealer and clearing systems reliable. This is a hands‑on leadership role: you will set the roadmap, run 1:1s, and make hiring decisions, and you will also review Terraform, sit in incident reviews, and make the architectural calls that shape our AWS footprint for the next three years.

This role follows a hybrid schedule, with three days per week onsite in our San Francisco FiDi or Culver City office.

Your impact

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of cloud, DevOps, and database reliability engineers across local and offshore locations — 1:1s, growth paths, performance, and hiring.
• Own delivery of the Cloud Engineering roadmap: governed EKS platform in Broker‑Dealer and Clearing, pilot‑light disaster recovery (RTO ≤ 60 min / RPO ≤ 15 min), Postgres upgrades, and edge gateway consolidation.
• Drive software supply chain security and SDLC hygiene — SBOMs, signed provenance, hardened golden images, and policy‑as‑code admission control — in partnership with Security Engineering.
• Own the Cloud on‑call rotation and incident response process: SLAs, runbooks, blameless post‑mortems, and follow‑through on action items.
• Improve developer experience through ephemer…
• Manage cloud and observability spend with a cost‑per‑service view, making trade‑offs explicit to Finance and to engineering leadership.
• Represent Cloud Engineering in audits and regulatory reviews with evidence that is automated rather than assembled by hand.
• Mentor and guide engineers on secure infrastructure practices so systems are both performant and resilient against security vulnerabilities.

What you’ll bring

• Experience:
• 6+ years in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE, including 2+ years managing engineers at a B2B financial services, fintech, or SaaS organization
• Deep AWS expertise across networking, IAM, compute, storage, and cost management at production scale
• Strong Kubernetes (EKS) and Infrastructure as Code experience — Terraform, Helm, and GitOps delivery with ArgoCD
• Practiced CI/CD ownership: GitLab pipelines, artifact and secrets management (Vault), and release safety
• Operational credibility — you have run a production on‑call rotation and can act as a senior escalation point, not just route the page to someone else. Observability fluency with Open Telemetry, SLOs, and error budgets used to make real decisions
• People leadership — a track record of hiring, developing, and retaining engineers, including remote and offshore team members
• Education — Ideally looking for a B.A. / B.S. degree in relevant fields such as Computer Science or Software Engineering, but experience and understanding are just as important
• Technical aptitude — You’re technologically savvy and can easily get up to speed on modern tech stacks (i.e. Kubernetes, Kafka, Temporal, Postgres, and Snowflake)
• Ownership — The pride you put into every aspect of your work is unparalleled and undeniable
• Superb communication — Intentional dialogue is a superpower. You listen as well as you share your perspective with others.
• Resilience — We’re inspired by your unwavering determination to achieve success, no matter the adversity you face along the way.
• Assurance — Your confidence is brilliant, yet ego‑less. You possess a strong knowledge base, the ability to discover the unknown, and are open to differing perspectives.
• Creative problem solving — Identifying the problem is simply not enough. You’re instinctually creative with your approach in finding solutions to roadblocks.
• Expertise with AI (Claude) best practices, and experience rolling AI‑assisted workflows out to an engineering team
• Experience operating in a regulated environment — SOC 1 / SOC 2, FINRA or SEC examinations, and evidence automation
• Hands‑on experience with Kong, Envoy, or Gateway API at the edge
• Postgres operations depth: upgrades, replication, change data capture, and performance tuning
• Familiarity with Teleport, Vault, Karpenter, and policy engines such as OPA Gatekeeper or Kyverno
• Experience running tabletop exercises and disaster recovery GameDays
• Knowledge of brokerage platforms and the financial services industry

Los Angeles, CA salary range

$181,000 - $265