Senior AWS Cloud Engineer - Fintech Platform (Serverless)

peak6group; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Apex Fintech Solutions is hiring a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer to own the AWS WorkSpaces-based VDI platform. You will design, build, and automate the system while serving as the go-to expert for day-to-day incidents in a regulated fintech environment.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions, and ensure security and compliance across a multi-region deployment. This role emphasizes operational excellence and observability with Datadog and CloudWatch.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of hands-on AWS experience, including 3+ years with serverless or event-driven architecture in production.
• 2+ years of experience with Amazon WorkSpaces in a production environment.
• Multi-region AWS deployment experience; CCR or active-active DR experience is a strong plus.
• Must have written, deployed, and debugged Python Lambda functions in production.
• 2+ years of work experience with Terraform to manage real production AWS infrastructure, including remote state.
• Must demonstrate working experience with WorkSpaces lifecycle management, including create, update, delete, and rebuild operations.
• Expertise with Python 3.14 Lambda development - handlers, environment variables, error handling.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture, code quality, and evolution of the platform - driving decisions on new capabilities, DR testing, scaling, and Terraform IaC.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for engineering questions related to the system.
• Diagnose and resolve production incidents quickly, tracing failures end-to-end across Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, SNS, and CloudWatch Logs.
• Support day-to-day VDI operations: image builds, bundle management, directory configuration, client connectivity, and user-facing troubleshooting.
• Bridge the gap between infrastructure automation and end-user desktop experience.
• Mentor junior engineers on AWS serverless architecture, operational best practices, and production troubleshooting.
• Own the deployment and integration of Datadog monitoring for the AWS VDI stack, including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, SLOs, and alerting.

Skills

AWS

Serverless

Python

Terraform

Datadog

Observability

Mentoring

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudWatch

API Gateway

WorkSpaces

Job description

Apex Fintech Solutions is hiring a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer to own the AWS WorkSpaces-based VDI platform. You will design, build, and automate the system while serving as the go-to expert for day-to-day incidents in a regulated fintech environment.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions, and ensure security and compliance across a multi-region deployment. This role emphasizes operational excellence and observability with Datadog and CloudWatch.