Cloud Engineer II

Earnest empowers ambitious professionals to make confident financial decisions and build the life they envision. The Cloud Engineer II will manage and improve AWS infrastructure components to enhance reliability, performance, and security for Earnest’s lending platform.

Responsibilities:

• Own and improve AWS infrastructure components supporting high-availability production systems, contributing to reliability, performance, and security standards
• Strengthen reliability and observability by improving SLOs, monitoring, alerting, automation, and reducing MTTR through durable post-incident fixes
• Build and enhance infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD systems (Terraform, Ansible, modern tooling) to improve scalability, deployment safety, and developer experience
• Drive operational excellence through automation, cost optimization (FinOps awareness), strong documentation, and active participation in a blameless on-call culture
• Help power the cloud infrastructure behind Earnest’s lending platform—where reliability, security, and performance directly support customer trust in a regulated fintech environment
• Take ownership of defined infrastructure domains within a modern, cloud-first ecosystem built on infrastructure-as-code, strong observability, and security-first principles
• Strengthen system reliability, reduce operational toil through automation, and continuously improve the scalability and resilience of mission-critical financial system

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience supporting production cloud infrastructure in modern environments
• Strong Linux/UNIX fundamentals and hands-on experience operating systems in production
• Practical experience with AWS and core cloud services in high-availability environments
• Experience building and maintaining infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or similar
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, or comparable systems)
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS) and how they apply in distributed systems
• Experience supporting relational databases in production environments
• A reliability-first mindset and a strong sense of ownership over the systems you support
• A bias toward automation and reducing operational toil
• Systems thinking — you look for root causes and durable improvements, not quick fixes
• An interest in cloud security best practices and operating in regulated environment