Cloud Engineer II

We are a hybrid, remote-office company dedicated to growing our talent anywhere!

We have onsite locations in:
Sioux Falls, SD, Scottsdale, AZ, Louisville, KY, Troy, MI, Franklin, TN, Easton, PA.

At Pathward, we take tremendous pride in our purpose to create financial inclusion for all™. We are a financial empowerment company that works with innovators to increase financial availability, choice, and opportunity for all. We strive to remove barriers that traditional institutions put in the way of financial access, and promote economic mobility by providing responsible, secure, high quality financial products.

We are a team of problem solvers and innovators who celebrate our differences and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger and well-positioned for success. We celebrate, and embrace, our team members through our
* HUMBLE*HUNGRY
* SMART approach, and we believe that we are strongest when we embrace the voices of our employees, customers, partners, and the communities we serve.

We are seeking a talented and experienced Cloud Engineer to join our team and play a pivotal role in the optimization, automation, and support of our AWS cloud environments. As a Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for the provision, maintenance, troubleshooting, and enhancement of our AWS infrastructure, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security. You will collaborate closely with Architecture, Dev Ops, and other cross-functional teams to align with our business objectives and deliver cutting-edge cloud solutions.

• Creates a well-informed cloud strategy and manages the adaption process.
• Designs, plans, manages, maintains, and supports, and any other technological duties associated with the organization’s cloud computing environment.
• Monitors the consumption of cloud resources, requests fulfillment turnaround, application performance, and systems security posture and evaluate cloud applications, hardware, and software as needed.
• Designs technical solutions on AWS public cloud environments, creating functional design specifications, reference architectures, and other technical specifications.
• Works cross-functionally with multiple teams to analyze cloud service provider SLAs, KRI, and KPI metrics. Collaborates with Engineering teams to enable their applications to run on applicable Cloud Platform. Works closely with IT security to monitor the company's cloud privacy.
• On-Call Rotation:
  Part of a team that rotates on-call duties for production-critical events in AWS.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and work experience.
• Typically 3+ years with bachelor's or equivalent.
• AWS Expertise: A minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience working with AWS.
• AWS Services:
  Working knowledge of key AWS services, including but not limited to EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, IAM, Lambda, and Cloud Watch.
• Security:
  Strong understanding of AWS security best practices and experience implementing security measures, including Identity and Access Management (IAM) and network security.
• Network Configuration:
  Experience with AWS network infrastructure, including VPCs, security groups, NACLs, and familiarity with routing, VPNs, and Direct Connect.
• Monitoring and Logging:
  Experience with monitoring and logging tools like AWS Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, and familiarity with third-party monitoring solutions.
• High Availability and Disaster Recovery:
  Knowledge of AWS services and best practices for achieving high availability and disaster recovery.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
  Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like AWS Cloud Formation, Terraform, or similar technologies
• Initiative:
  Actively participate in identifying changes in technology, processes, and procedures that improve team and company effectiveness and performance.
• Self Discipline:
  Staying focused, motivated, organized, and present in a remote work environment, managing time effectively, adhering to schedules, avoiding distractions.
• Communication
  
  Skills:
  
  Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
• Team…