Sr. Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineer

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career.

Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation) to support scalable, secure, and highly available platforms.
• Architect and operate multi-region AWS environments
  , ensuring resiliency, fault tolerance, and business continuity.
• Manage and optimize core AWS services including EKS, ECS, EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, Route 53, VPC, and IAM
  .
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Git Hub Actions, Git Lab, and Jenkins to enable efficient and reliable software delivery.
• Develop automation solutions using Python, Bash, and Power Shell to streamline infrastructure provisioning, deployments, testing, and operational processes.
• Build, administer, and enhance Kubernetes platforms on Amazon EKS
  , including Helm charts, ingress controllers, service mesh, and container security controls.
• Implement enterprise-grade observability and reliability practices utilizing Datadog, Cloud Watch, logging, tracing, monitoring, and alerting solutions to improve operational excellence.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis efforts while collaborating with engineering teams to improve platform resiliency, security, performance, and operational maturity.

Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
- Five to six years of relevant experience

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Strong expertise in AWS cloud services
  , including compute, networking, storage, security, container, and serverless technologies.
• Deep knowledge of Terraform, Cloud Formation, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices.
• Experience designing, deploying, and operating Kubernetes environments
  , including Amazon EKS, Helm, service mesh, container security, and cluster optimization
  .
• Advanced experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines using Git Hub Actions, Git Lab, Jenkins
  , and modern Dev Ops practices.
• Strong proficiency in Linux administration
  , automation, and scripting using Python, Bash, and Power Shell
  .
• Experience implementing Dev Sec Ops  practices
  , including Tenable, Black Duck/Fortify, Sonar Qube, IAM, secrets management, certificate automation, and cloud security controls
  .
• Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Datadog, Cloud Watch, logging, tracing, and alerting frameworks
  , with the ability to support compliance requirements such as PCI DSS, HIPAA/HITRUST, or similar regulatory standards
  .

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect and/or AWS Certified Dev Ops Engineer
• Experience supporting banking, payments, healthcare, or other highly regulated environments
  .
• Experience with Datadog, Venafi, cloud security platforms, and enterprise observability solutions
  .
• Background in platform modernization, cloud migration, and large-scale infrastructure transformation initiatives
  .
• Exposure to AI-assisted engineering, automation tooling, and developer productivity platforms
  .
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, influence architecture decisions, and drive operational excellence initiatives
  .

Location expectations
This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

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