Cloud Engineer

Summary

Join Sandbox Wealth as a Cloud Engineer and play a key role in designing, automating, and maintaining our secure and scalable infrastructure. Partner with engineering, security, and product teams to ensure our AWS infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines are robust and compliant. You will be responsible for implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, managing infrastructure using IaC tools, automating system tasks, conducting security assessments, and setting up observability tooling. This role requires a Bachelor's degree in a related field, 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering or DevOps, expertise in AWS services, and strong proficiency with IaC (Terraform preferred). The ideal candidate will have experience with Python and React, and familiarity with SOC 2 compliance processes. This is a contract or full-time position offering a salary between $150,000 and $200,000, located in Greater New York with remote options.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field
• 5+ years of experience in a cloud engineering or DevOps role, ideally in a FinTech or high-growth environment
• Expertise in AWS services and cloud architecture best practices
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools
• Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Understanding of security best practices in cloud environments
• Experience with observability tools such as Datadog
• Excellent troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, and deployment workflows
• Manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform to ensure consistency and scalability
• Automate system tasks and environment provisioning to support rapid development cycles
• Conduct security assessments and collaborate on security reviews across infrastructure and deployments
• Set up and manage observability tooling (e.g., Datadog) for monitoring, alerting, and performance optimization
• Facilitate code deployments and manage testing, staging, and production environments
• Define and document deployment workflows, rollback procedures, and incident response playbooks
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues and application outages in a timely manner
• Support SOC 2 compliance efforts by implementing and maintaining secure, auditable systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Python and React; experience deploying to Vercel is a plus
• Familiarity with SOC 2 compliance processes is preferred
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or equivalent certification preferred