AWS Cloud Engineer

About Valitana

Valitana is a rapid growing Fin Tech startup providing cutting‑edge SaaS solutions for institutional investors. Founded in 2017, our platforms have advanced financial analysis, trade flow, and portfolio management tools. Valitana provides robust, intuitive solutions allowing our clients to make informed decisions by improving their operational workflows.

With over 500+ active users, our institutional clients include CLO investors, CLO managers, hedge funds, asset managers, insurance companies, family offices, and broker dealers. Valitana was Ranked #1 in the “Best CLO Analytics Service”, “Best Secondary CLO Platform”, and “Best CLO Portfolio Management Service” in the Credit flux CLO Census for 2023.

Valitana is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to join our growing team. The ideal candidate will have cloud engineering experience within the financial technology space. This individual in this role will focus on designing, deploying, and optimizing secure, scalable, and high‑performing cloud infrastructures. While collaborating closely with product, development, and data teams to ensure reliable operations, robust security, and seamless scalability of our SaaS solutions.

• Design, implement, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure supporting our structured finance products.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), and automated deployment strategies.
• Ensure compliance with financial industry security, governance, and regulatory requirements.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve cloud infrastructure performance and reliability issues.
• Partner with development teams to enable secure, scalable, and efficient application deployments.
• Manage AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, Cloud Formation, Cloud Watch, and IAM.
• Support disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity planning.
• Collaborate with Info Sec to maintain compliance with SOC 2, GDPR, and other financial industry standards.
• Stay current with AWS innovations and trends to recommend improvements.

• 3-5+ years of experience in AWS cloud engineering or Dev Ops roles.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information security, or a related field.
• Expertise with AWS services (EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, IAM, VPC, etc.).
• Strong background in infrastructure as code (Cloud Formation, AWS CDK).
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD tools such as Git Hub Actions, AWS Code Pipeline, etc.
• Proficiency in monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as Cloud Watch.
• Solid understanding of cloud security principles and financial regulatory requirements.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, ECS).
• Excellent problem‑solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect preferred but not required.

The base salary range for this role is $125,000 to $175,000. Valitana offers a competitive compensation package which includes a base salary and an annual performance bonus. Employees also receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes an employer matched retirement plan, healthcare with medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, and PTO.

Employees in this role will work in the office Mondays through Wednesdays with the flexibility to work remotely Thursdays and Fridays.

Valitana is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affi­... employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.