Key skills
Cloud Infrastructure ManagementAWSGCPAzureContainerizationDockerKubernetesInfrastructure as CodeTerraformPulumiDistributed SystemsNetworkingStorageLoad BalancingDatabase OperationsSoftware Engineering FundamentalsAIRedisCommunication
About this role
Valon is building the AI-native operating system for regulated finance, starting with mortgage servicing. The role of Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer involves designing, building, and operating core cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability as the company grows.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and operate core cloud infrastructure across compute, storage, databases, and networking layers
- Own and improve the reliability, scalability, and security of Valon’s production systems as we scale to support major enterprise deployments
- Evaluate, adopt, and operationalize new infrastructure technologies (e.g., Vitess, Clickhouse, Redis) to meet evolving product and scale requirements
- Collaborate with product engineering, platform, and operations teams to define infrastructure solutions that unlock product innovation and operational efficiency
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident response, driving improvements to system observability, alerting, and reliability practices
- Contribute to architectural decisions and technical strategy for the platform, with an emphasis on pragmatic, well-reasoned trade-offs
- Mentor teammates through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing
Requirements:
- 3–5 years of professional experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or cloud systems
- Hands-on experience managing and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure at meaningful scale
- Strong working knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar)
- Experience with distributed systems concepts: networking, storage, load balancing, and database operations
- Solid engineering fundamentals—you can write clean, well-tested code and contribute meaningfully to services and tooling, even if infrastructure is your primary domain
- A product mindset: you think about how infrastructure decisions impact the teams and products that depend on your work
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to working across teams
- Experience in fast-paced, high-growth environments is a plus
- Familiarity with regulated industries (fintech, healthcare, etc.) is a bonus but not required