Senior Software Engineer Cloud Infrastructure

nCino offers exciting career opportunities for individuals who want to join the worldwide leader in cloud banking.

• Essential Functions:

• Design build and maintain AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools (AWS CDK or similar) ensuring consistency repeatability and version control.
• Own and operate core AWS services including compute (ECS Lambda) databases (RDS DynamoDB) container orchestration (EKS/Kubernetes) and serverless technologies.
• Collaborate directly with application development teams to understand their infrastructure needs and enable them with scalable reliable platform capabilities.
• Provide architectural guidance and technical leadership on infrastructure design decisions considering scalability reliability security and cost-effectiveness.
• Implement and maintain security best practices across AWS infrastructure including IAM policies network security encryption and access controls.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation to enable efficient and safe software delivery.
• Monitor analyze and optimize cloud costs identifying opportunities for cost reduction while maintaining performance and reliability.
• Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response efforts for production infrastructure issues including root cause analysis and preventive measures.
• Lead proof-of-concepts to validate new AWS services architectural approaches or infrastructure patterns before broader adoption.
• Mentor team members on AWS best practices infrastructure as code techniques and cloud-native design patterns.
• Write clean maintainable code and conduct thorough code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.
• Develop and maintain automated testing strategies for infrastructure code to ensure reliability and prevent regressions.
• Proactively identify and address technical debt focusing on improving infrastructure reliability maintainability and developer experience.
• Stay current with AWS service updates and cloud infrastructure trends evaluating and introducing relevant technologies that benefit the platform.
• Document infrastructure architecture runbooks and operational procedures to ensure knowledge sharing and team effectiveness.
• Facilitate effective communication and collaboration within the platform engineering team and across cross-functional teams.
• Support strategic planning around infrastructure roadmap priorities in alignment with business objectives and application team needs.

Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or a related field with 5 years of experience/proficiency or a combination of education and experience
• Proficiency in at least one major programming language
• Demonstrated commitment to quality and continuous improvement
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently as well as in teams.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Desired:

• Strong familiarity with AWS RDS database services and database engineering principles including performance tuning backup/recovery strategies and high availability configurations
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with cross-functional teams
• Background working in platform engineering or internal developer platform teams
• Proven track record of designing and implementing highly available fault-tolerant infrastructure at scale
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (CloudWatch Datadog etc.)

If you thrive in a high-energy entrepreneurial environment we invite you to share your passion ideas and excitement at nCino.

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