Motion Recruitment | Jobspring | Workbridge

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (SRE) / NYC / On-site

New York, NY

Hybrid

Direct Hire

$150k - $200k

This is an opportunity to join a fast-paced infrastructure team supporting secure, large-scale deployments of generative AI products for premier financial institutions. This is a full-time, onsite role based in New York City, working with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and modern observability tooling to help deliver cutting-edge AI systems in highly regulated environments. You’ll work cross-functionally with internal engineering and AI teams, guiding infrastructure best practices, managing on-premise and cloud deployments, and ensuring high availability for AI-powered financial platforms.

As a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll be responsible for architecting and managing secure cloud environments, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and maintaining observability systems. You’ll collaborate with developers and enterprise clients to deploy scalable infrastructure solutions that power complex, data-intensive AI workflows.

Required Skills & Experience

  • 4+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or related roles

  • Strong experience with AWS services (ECS, EC2, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, RDS, MSK)

  • Proficiency with Kubernetes, Docker, and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)

  • Experience managing CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD)

  • Solid background in observability and logging frameworks

  • Understanding of cloud security and compliance (SOC2, GDPR, ISO)

Desired Skills & Experience

  • Experience with customer-specific, hybrid, or on-premise deployments

  • Familiarity with Azure or other cloud providers

  • Knowledge of Kafka, gRPC, or microservices architecture

  • Background in regulated industries or financial services

  • Prior experience supporting large-scale AI/ML infrastructure

  • Relevant certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, Terraform, Kubernetes)

  • Experience as first infrastructure hire or team lead in a scaling startup

What You Will Be Doing

Tech Breakdown
60% Infrastructure Architecture, CI/CD, and Deployment (AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes)
40% On-premise Support, Security, and Observability

Daily Responsibilities
60% Hands-On Infrastructure Work and Optimization
40% Collaboration with Developers and Enterprise Clients

The Offer

Bonus Eligible

You Will Receive the Following Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

  • Unlimited PTO

  • Equity Compensation

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.

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Posted by: Jake Fish