Cloud Engineer
Cloud Engineer
Location: Colombia (Remote)
Investors:
Goldman Sachs Asset Management
FinTech Collective
Cometa
Company Overview
Founded in 2019, Simetrik is a robust B2B platform powered by no-code and generative AI. We empower financial and operational teams to automate reconciliations end-to-end, anticipate risks, and manage all their operations from one intuitive, spreadsheet-inspired interface. Simetrik is a market leader in Latin America, handling two-thirds of the region’s transactions with clients such as PayU, Mercado Libre, Rappi, PagSeguro, Falabella, Oxxo, Itaú, and Nubank, and partners like Deloitte. Our global footprint spans over 35 countries, monitoring 200+ million records daily.
Executive Team
Alejandro Casas Caro, Co-Founder & CEO
Santiago Gómez, Co-Founder & COO
Felipe Pardo, CFO
Sebastián Bezzo, VP of Revenue | Latam
About the Role
What does success look like in this role?
Success means maintaining a stable, secure, scalable infrastructure supported by efficient automation. A successful Cloud Engineer at Simetrik is proactive, collaborative, and solves complex technical problems, directly enhancing the product’s reliability and customer experience.
Impact & Scope
You will directly influence the stability, scalability, and operational efficiency of our platform, working closely with the Head of Tech and the development team to support product growth and customer satisfaction.
Key Results (First 3-6 months)
Automate lifecycle management of key AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
Stabilize and effectively monitor production services.
Drive improvements in software lifecycle reliability and performance.
Optimize AWS costs.
Responsibilities
Build and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform
Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines
Collaborate with development to automate testing, builds, and deployments
Manage and monitor AWS services (ECS, EC2, RDS, Batch, etc.)
Support technical tools and drive world-class operational processes
Continuously improve SDLC with a focus on infrastructure and reliability
Contribute to building a scalable SaaS platform with multidisciplinary teams
Must-Have Qualifications
5+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering or similar roles
Proven experience with Terraform and AWS services (ECS, ECR, S3, RDS, CloudFront, Batch, EC2)
Strong knowledge of networking, load balancing, high availability, and security best practices
Deep expertise with AWS cost management, governance, and the Well-Architected Framework
Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Harness, etc.)
Familiarity with observability tools (Datadog, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
Scripting/programming skills in Python, Bash, or similar languages
Good practices in containerization (Docker)
Nice-to-Have
Experience with container orchestrators (Kubernetes, ECS Fargate, etc.)
Familiarity with highly regulated or mission-critical environments
Contributions to DevOps culture and agile delivery optimization
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
Benefits
Well-funded, ambitious startup with competitive salaries
Entrepreneurial culture-push limits, create, and collaborate every day
Open communication with company leadership
Small, dynamic teams = massive impact
100% Remote Work (work from anywhere)
$500 USD a year for learning investments