Senior Cloud Infra Engineer, AI-Driven Platform

Altruist; Northern, Los Angeles (KY, CA); Hybrid; USD 181,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Premium health insurance

401k with match

Parental leave (16 weeks)

Job summary

Altruist is hiring a Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join the Cloud Infrastructure & Platform (CIN) team. You will architect, build, and operate AWS-based infrastructure powering our broker-dealer and clearing platform, owning critical domains end-to-end and driving reliability, security, and scalability.

As AI/ML tooling evolves, you will shape infrastructure strategy, lead cross-functional initiatives, and raise engineering standards across the organization, mentoring others and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure engineering, with deep, production-proven expertise in AWS.
• Experience owning and driving infrastructure initiatives end-to-end—design, rollout, and operational excellence.
• Expert-level proficiency with Terraform, IaC standards, and multi-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and operate production AWS infrastructure (EKS, MSK, RDS/Aurora, OpenSearch, S3, CloudFront).
• Lead Kubernetes platform strategy, cluster upgrades, and Helm governance.
• Design and improve CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD) for safe, fast deployments.
• Architect and validate DR strategies including cross-region failover and backup automation.
• Lead architecture reviews and ensure security, scalability, and compliance.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes (EKS)

Linux systems

Python/Bash/Go scripting

GitHub Actions/ArgoCD

Networking (VPC/Transit Gateway)

Security/compliance

Tools

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Job description

Altruist is hiring a Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join the Cloud Infrastructure & Platform (CIN) team. You will architect, build, and operate AWS-based infrastructure powering our broker-dealer and clearing platform, owning critical domains end-to-end and driving reliability, security, and scalability.

As AI/ML tooling evolves, you will shape infrastructure strategy, lead cross-functional initiatives, and raise engineering standards across the organization, mentoring others and