Senior AWS Cloud Engineer — Serverless & Multi-Region

Peak6 Investments LLC; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

PTO

401k match

Parental leave

HSA contribution

Calm app subscription

Tuition reimbursement

Hybrid work schedule

Job summary

APEX Fintech's AWS WorkSpaces platform is a production-grade, multi-region AWS serverless system that automates the full lifecycle of Amazon WorkSpaces virtual desktops for a multi-tenant VDI program.

We're hiring a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer who will take full ownership of the platform's architecture — designing, building, and automating the systems that keep it running — while serving as the go-to expert for day-to-day production incidents.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of hands-on AWS experience, including 3+ years with serverless or event-driven architecture in production.
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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

Python

Lambda

Terraform

Datadog

Ansible

API Gateway

DynamoDB

SQS

SNS

CloudWatch

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Datadog

Route53

CloudWatch

WorkSpaces

Job description

APEX Fintech's AWS WorkSpaces platform is a production-grade, multi-region AWS serverless system that automates the full lifecycle of Amazon WorkSpaces virtual desktops for a multi-tenant VDI program.

We're hiring a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer who will take full ownership of the platform's architecture — designing, building, and automating the systems that keep it running — while serving as the go-to expert for day-to-day production incidents.