Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Multi-Cloud & FinOps

Salient; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Generous 401(k)

Catered lunches

Job summary

Salient is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to own our cloud footprint across AWS, GCP, and Render. You’ll drive a single standard for infrastructure, forecast demand, and optimize costs as our call volume and customer base grow.

You will collaborate directly with engineering and leadership to ensure reliability, capacity, and secure, auditable systems that support SOC 2 and regulatory requirements. Join a fast-paced, in-person San Francisco team driving AI in regulated finance.

Qualifications

• You've operated production infrastructure on AWS and/or GCP at meaningful scale, and you're comfortable across providers.
• You manage infrastructure as code and have brought messy, hand-built environments under control.
• You've delivered measurable cloud cost savings and can explain pricing models, commitments, and data transfer costs.
• You've planned capacity for spiky or latency-sensitive workloads and tuned autoscaling in production.
• You build monitoring and alerting that catch problems early, and you lead incidents calmly.
• You design for least privilege, auditability, and safe change management by default.
• You favor simple, consistent systems over sophisticated ones and know what not to build.
• You write clearly and can explain cost and reliability tradeoffs to engineers, finance, and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day operation of Salient's infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Render, to one consistent standard.
• Infrastructure as code: bringing resources under Terraform (or equivalent), reusable modules, consistent environments, and drift detection.
• Capacity management: forecasting demand, autoscaling, quotas, and headroom for real-time voice and AI workloads.
• Cost attribution and monitoring: tagging, allocation by product and customer, unit-cost metrics, dashboards, budgets, and anomaly alerts.
• Cost reduction: identifying, prioritizing, and shipping savings through rightsizing, commitments, cleanup, consolidation, and provider moves where justified.
• Reliability and observability of the platform, including incident response and post-mortem follow-through.
• Secure, auditable infrastructure that supports SOC 2 and customer security requirements.

Skills

Multi-cloud (AWS/GCP)

Infrastructure as code

Cost optimization

Capacity planning

Monitoring & alerting

Incident response

Least privilege security

Clear communication

Cloud cost reporting

Job description

Salient is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to own our cloud footprint across AWS, GCP, and Render. You’ll drive a single standard for infrastructure, forecast demand, and optimize costs as our call volume and customer base grow.

You will collaborate directly with engineering and leadership to ensure reliability, capacity, and secure, auditable systems that support SOC 2 and regulatory requirements. Join a fast-paced, in-person San Francisco team driving AI in regulated finance.