Cloud Engineer Sandbox Wealth
Location: Greater New York / Remote
Job Type: Contract / FullTime
Salary: $150000$200000
About the Company
Sandbox Wealth is an open finance platform for wealth managers. We connect data fromcustodians market data providers and other sources with bank and nonbank lenders tofacilitate the free flow of capital across financial institutions and their clients. Our platform isdesigned for the next generation of private bankingdatarich highly secure and built forscale.
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer to join our team. In this role you will beresponsible for designing automating and maintaining secure and scalable infrastructure tosupport a modern private banking platform. You will partner closely with engineering securityand product teams to ensure our AWS infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines are robust efficientand compliant.
This role reports to the Head of Engineering.
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.
Measures of Success
- Uptime and reliability of production systems exceed established SLAs. Reduction in deployment time and increase in release frequency due to pipeline optimization.
- Improved incident response time and lower mean time to resolution (MTTR).
- Implementation of infrastructure changes using versioncontrolled automated workflows.
- Positive internal feedback from engineering security and product teams.
- Successful completion and maintenance of SOC 2 Type II certification support.
- Reduction in manual intervention and improved infrastructure consistency through automation.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Cybersecurity or related field.
- 5 years of experience in a cloud engineering or DevOps role ideally in a FinTech or highgrowth environment.
- Expertise in AWS services and cloud architecture best practices.
- Handson experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools.
- Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
- Familiarity with Python and React; experience deploying to Vercel is a plus.
- Understanding of security best practices in cloud environments.
- Experience with observability tools such as Datadog.
- Familiarity with SOC 2 compliance processes is preferred.
- Excellent troubleshooting communication and collaboration skills.
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or equivalent certification preferred.
This is an opportunity to help architect a stateoftheart platform and partner with anexperienced leadership team during a period of rapid development.