Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer

MX; Lehi (UT); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

MX is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to lead the migration of production workloads from on-prem to GCP, design resilient Kubernetes environments, and raise the bar on reliability and developer velocity. You will collaborate with platform, security, and SRE teams to embed policy-as-code and secure governance into scalable cloud abstractions.

You should have extensive hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures, IaC, CI/CD, and observability, and you will mentor teams to operate

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in a developer, DevOps, SRE, or cloud role.
• 5+ years cloud experience with on-prem to cloud migration.
• 5+ years Kubernetes and microservices operations at scale.
• Exceptional incident triage and debugging skills in high-pressure environments.
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and observability tooling.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end cloud migration from on-premise to GCP.
• Design production-grade Kubernetes environments for high availability.
• Improve incident triage and recovery time with cloud-aware diagnostics.
• Optimize platform performance and ensure reliable deployments.
• Embed security controls and governance into platform abstractions.
• Build shared tooling and patterns for cloud independence.

Skills

Cloud migration

Kubernetes operations

Incident triage

Infrastructure as code

Observability tooling

Tools

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

MX is a fintech company on a mission to empower the world to be financially strong. We build technology that helps banks, credit unions, and fintechs deliver smarter, more intuitive financial experiences to millions of people.

Like many startups, we've navigated real growth challenges - and we've come out stronger on the other side. Today, MX is in a phase of renewed momentum and scale, with a solid foundation and a clear vision for what's next. This is a place where thoughtful execution matters, innovation is encouraged, and individuals have real ownership over their work.

Our culture values curiosity, accountability, and impact. We give people the space to question assumptions, design better solutions, and help shape how the company grows. If you're looking to do meaningful work, influence outcomes, and grow alongside a company that's ready to move fast, you'll feel at home at MX.

At MX, we're on a mission to empower the world to be financially strong. We power the financial experiences behind thousands of banks, credit unions, and fintechs, helping millions of people better understand, manage, and improve their financial lives. Our platform sits at the intersection of financial data, cloud-scale infrastructure, and trust, and it has to work, every time, at massive scale.

We're entering a pivotal phase of our technology evolution: moving from legacy on-prem infrastructure to a modern, cloud-native platform designed for resilience, security, and developer velocity. It's a chance to build the next generation of MX's platform thoughtfully, reliably, and with long-term impact in mind.

If you enjoy working on complex systems, care deeply about uptime and reliability, and want your work to directly power the financial well-being of millions, this is where you'll do the most meaningful work of your career.

What You'll Do

• Drive Cloud Migration: Drive the end-to-end migration of production workloads from on-premise data centers to GCP.
• Architect for Reliability: Design and implement production-grade Kubernetes environments and GCP architectures that prioritize 99.99+% availability.
• Operational Excellence: Improve incident triage and improved recovery timeby implementing cloud-aware diagnostics and automated recovery patterns.
• Empower Developers: Reduce friction in the development lifecycle by optimizing platform response times and ensuring reliable, repeatable deployment events.
• Platform Standards, Security, and Governance: Embed security and compliance controls directly into platform abstractions (policy-as-code, identity, networking) and partner with security and compliance teams to meet regulatory requirements by design.
• Mentor and Standardize: Build patterns and shared tooling that allow the broader engineering teams to operate confidently in the cloud without external reliance.

12-Month Definition of Success

Within 12 months, you will have demonstrably delivered:

• Cloud Migration Execution
• Successful migration of production workloads to public cloud
• Prevented customer-impacting regressions attributable to platform design
• Clear, documented cloud architectures and operational runbooks
• Reliability & Operations
• Sustained 99.99%+ availability during and after migration
• Improved incident triage and improved recovery time through cloud-aware diagnostics
• Production-grade Kubernetes operations in cloud
• Team Uplift
• Platform team operating independently and confidently in cloud
• Shared standards, tooling, and golden paths adopted across teams
• Reduced reliance on external consultants or reactively addressing infrastructure issues
• Developer Productivity
• Faster platform response times for developer issues
• More reliable deployments and fewer rollback events
• Clear reduction in developer-reported friction related to infrastructure

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ Total years of experience in a developer, devops, SRE, cloud role
• 5+ years cloud experience (on-prem to cloud migration experience would be critical)
• 5+ years Kubernetes and microservices operations experience at scale
• Exceptional incident triage and debugging skills in high-pressure environments
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and observability tooling.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in Golang, Ruby, Java, or similar systems programming languages.
• Experience building developer platforms or internal tooling, or cloud enablement frameworks.
• Familiarity with Backstage, Crossplane, Argo, Terraform, policy-as-code frameworks, or similar platform tooling.
• Familiarity with SRE practices, SLIs/SLOs, chaos engineering, and reliability engineering frameworks.

MX is proudly committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse and inclusive workforce. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we never discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, military or veteran status, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We particularly welcome applications from veterans and military spouses. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. You may request reasonable accommodations by sending an email to [e-mail].