Senior Cloud Engineer

earnest; United States; Remote; USD 184,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual performance bonus

Equity

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Home office stipend

Company equipment

Internet & phone reimbursement

Paid time off

Parental leave

Annual travel perk

Job summary

earnest is hiring a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to design and operate the cloud foundations behind a high-availability lending platform. You will focus on reliability, security, and efficient infrastructure, and you will elevate how engineering teams build, deploy, and operate services by treating infrastructure and developer tooling as shared products.

You will architect AWS infrastructure, establish SLOs and observability standards, and build scalable IaC/CI/CD capabilities using Terraform

Qualifications

• Five+ years of hands-on experience building and managing reliable cloud systems.
• Strong knowledge of AWS, Linux, and networking fundamentals.
• Production experience with infrastructure as code and container platforms.
• Ability to automate repetitive work and improve observability.
• Excellent communication across teams.

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve AWS infrastructure across multi-account foundations.
• Establish service reliability practices including SLOs, observability, and incident response.
• Build IaC and CI/CD capabilities using Terraform or OpenTofu and improve self-service.
• Partner with security to automate controls across the cloud lifecycle.
• Identify opportunities to improve cloud cost efficiency and set utilization standards.
• Mentor engineers through reviews, docs, and blameless postmortems.

Skills

AWS

Linux

Networking fundamentals

Observability

Terraform/OpenTofu

Kubernetes

Docker

Relational databases

Automation

Communication

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD tooling

Observability tools

Job description

Role overview

Design and operate the cloud foundations behind a high-availability lending platform, with a focus on reliability, security, and efficient infrastructure. This senior individual contributor role also improves how engineering teams build, deploy, and operate services by treating infrastructure and developer tooling as shared products.

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve AWS infrastructure, including multi-account cloud foundations.
• Establish service reliability practices such as service-level objectives, observability standards, and incident response processes to reduce recovery time and prevent recurring issues.
• Build scalable infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD capabilities using Terraform or OpenTofu, and improve developer self-service.
• Partner with security teams to automate security controls and regulatory requirements across the cloud lifecycle.
• Find opportunities to improve cloud cost efficiency and set resource utilization standards.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, operational documentation, and blameless incident reviews.

Requirements

• At least five years of hands-on experience building and managing reliable cloud systems.
• Strong knowledge of AWS, Linux, and networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, and VPCs.
• Production experience with infrastructure as code and container platforms such as Kubernetes and Docker.
• Experience with relational databases and modern observability tools; ability to automate repetitive work.
• Ownership, curiosity, and comfort navigating ambiguity to deliver durable solutions.
• Clear communication across engineering, security, and product teams.
• Based in the United States.

Nice to have

• Cloud infrastructure experience in financial services or another regulated environment, including SOC 2 or PCI controls.
• FinOps or cloud cost optimization experience.
• Experience building internal developer platforms or tools.
• Familiarity with AI/ML workloads or AI-assisted operations and incident triage.

Benefits and work setup

• Salary range listed in the source: $184,000-$230,000 USD, with eligibility for an annual performance bonus and equity.
• Health, dental, and vision coverage; retirement savings plan with company match; and employee stock purchase plan.
• Home office stipend, computer, and monthly internet and phone reimbursement.
• Tuition reimbursement, paid time off, parental leave, and an annual travel perk.