# Senior Cloud Engineer

This a Full Remote job, the offer is available from: United States Earnest empowers ambitious professionals to make confident financial decisions and build the life they envision. Earnies are committed to helping borrowers move forward with confidence by offering smarter borrowing options with a clearer path to taking control of their debt. If you’re as passionate as we are about our mission, read more below, and let’s build something great together. The Senior Cloud Engineer will report to the Engineering Manager, Infrastructure. As the Senior Cloud Engineer, you will: Architect, own, and evolve critical AWS infrastructure and multi-account cloud foundations that power Earnest’s high-availability, regulated lending platform. Define and drive service reliability standards (SLOs, observability maturity, and incident response frameworks) across engineering teams to systematically reduce MTTR and prevent repeat incidents. Lead the design and adoption of scalable Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/OpenTofu) and CI/CD tooling, treating internal infrastructure as a product that accelerates developer velocity. Partner with Security to embed automated security-first patterns and regulato

- **Id**: 4304262
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/earnest-senior-cloud-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-14T03:32:07Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T03:32:07Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5675
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Home office, Parental leave, Restricted stock units
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Consumer Loans & Pawnshops

## Company

- **Id**: 6446
- **Name**: Earnest
- **Domain**: earnest.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/earnest>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Salary

- **Min**: 184000
- **Max**: 230000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 230000

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **DNS** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **FinOps** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **OpenTofu** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **SOC 2** — Optional: no
- **TCP/IP** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T05:52:38Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 230000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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