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Altruist is an AI platform for wealth management serving financial advisors. This role is a Senior Software Engineer focused on Cloud Infrastructure, responsible for architecting, building, and operating AWS-based infrastructure that powers their broker-dealer and clearing platform, with strategic input on AI/ML integration and infrastructure operations. What You'll Do • Architect, deploy, and operate production AWS infrastructure supporting high-availability financial services workloads (EKS, MSK, RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, ElastiCache, S3, CloudFront) • Own and evolve Infrastructure as Code strategy using Terraform, defining module standards and enforcing code review practices across teams • Lead Kubernetes (EKS) platform strategy including cluster upgrades, node group architecture, Helm chart governance, and workload autoscaling • Design and validate disaster recovery strategies including cross-region failover, backup automation, and leading DR simulation exercises • Define observability strategy across the platform using Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and OpenSearch; establish SLO/SLI frameworks and alerting standards • Drive cloud cost optimization through FinOps practices, Reserved Instance analysis, and vendor spend governance • Define and enforce security architecture standards across AWS environments including IAM governance, VPC design, encryption, and secrets management • Architect infrastructure for AI/ML workloads and lead adoption of AI-driven automation for infrastructure operations • Mentor senior and mid-level engineers and conduct design and code reviews • Act as trusted technical advisor to engineering leadership on infrastructure strategy and investment priorities What You Need • 5+ years hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure engineering with deep production-proven expertise in AWS • Expert-level proficiency with Terraform including module design, state management, and establishing IaC standards • Extensive production experience operating Kubernetes (EKS strongly preferred) at scale with cluster lifecycle management and GitOps workflows • Strong Linux systems engineering skills and advanced scripting proficiency (Python, Bash, or Go) • Deep expertise in CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins) with experience designing deployment strategies • Expert-level understanding of cloud networking (VPC architecture, Transit Gateway, peering, DNS, load balancing) and security (IAM, KMS, WAF, GuardDuty, Secrets Manager) • Proven experience designing and operating observability platforms (Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenSearch/ELK) at organizational scale • Strong experience with database infrastructure and data layer architecture (Aurora PostgreSQL, RDS, ElastiCache/Redis, OpenSearch, DynamoDB) • Demonstrated ability to lead disaster recovery planning and design HA architecture patterns for mission-critical systems • Excellent technical communication skills and proven track record of mentoring engineers Nice to Have • 7+ years of infrastructure or platform engineering experience, including 3+ years at senior or staff level • Experience in financial services, fintech, broker-dealer, or heavily regulated industries with FINRA/SEC compliance requirements • AWS certifications at Professional or Specialty level (Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, Security Specialty, or Machine Learning Specialty) • Experience with event streaming platforms at scale (Amazon MSK / Apache Kafka) including cluster operation