FinTech Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Ark FinTech.AI; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site collaboration in Palo Alto

Competitive compensation and benefits

Job summary

Arkfintech is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate the cloud platform powering our financial products. You will automate, monitor, and optimize AWS-based infrastructure to ensure reliability, security, and cost-efficiency at scale.

You’ll work with software engineers, QA, and product managers to deliver fast, safe deployments and maintain architecture documentation, runbooks, and strong observability across the platform.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of production cloud infrastructure experience, ideally in fintech or financial services
• Proficient with AWS or Azure core services and networking
• Experience with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM) and scripting (Python, Bash)
• Solid understanding of Linux, containers/orchestration, and monitoring/logging tools
• Knowledge of reliability, auditability, and change-control in financial systems
• Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS/Azure
• Codify environments with Infrastructure as Code for repeatable changes
• Configure cloud networking (VPCs, subnets, load balancers, DNS, VPN)
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Own observability with monitoring, logging, and dashboards
• Tune capacity and performance to meet availability/latency targets
• Support database operations including backups, replication, and failover
• Troubleshoot production issues including on-call participation
• Track and optimize cloud spend (FinOps practices)
• Maintain architecture docs, runbooks, and inventories
• Collaborate with backend engineers, QA, and product managers

Skills

AWS

Azure

Infrastructure as Code

Python scripting

Linux fundamentals

Docker/Kubernetes

Monitoring/Observability

Fintech experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Azure Resource Manager

Job description

Arkfintech is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate the cloud platform powering our financial products. You will automate, monitor, and optimize AWS-based infrastructure to ensure reliability, security, and cost-efficiency at scale.

You’ll work with software engineers, QA, and product managers to deliver fast, safe deployments and maintain architecture documentation, runbooks, and strong observability across the platform.