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Obra Capital · 2 hours ago

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Obra Capital is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to serve as part of an IT-Solutions team supporting their AWS cloud environment. The role involves ensuring appropriate architecture, infrastructure enablement, automation, and observability while continuously improving team tools, processes, and procedures.

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Responsibilities

Lead and mentor a team to deliver high-quality cloud solutions
Recognizes, identifies, triages and resolves platform issues; escalates to the appropriate resource where required
Performs system and component level configuration, testing, and documentation for platform projects
Assists in development of project efforts providing estimates for development and documentation
Identifies and recommends methods for improved automation, scalability, better monitoring, and process transparency across all stakeholders
Ensure existing standards and methodologies are in place and works together with the development team to identify and implement enhanced standards and methodologies for development practices
Provides feedback to the platform team regarding bug fixes, enhancement requests and other issues
Recommend strategies, procedures, and new technologies for implementation
Develop and maintain reusable Terraform or AWS CDK modules for common infrastructure patterns
Automate provisioning of AWS resources including:
Networking components
Compute environments (EKS/ECS/EC2/Lambda)
IAM roles and policies
Ensure all infrastructure is provisioned through code and aligned with platform standards
Help implement and enhance the AWS landing zone including account baselines and guardrails
Support automation for:
Account setup and configuration
Logging and monitoring integration
Environment bootstrapping for application teams
Partner with Security to embed guardrails and policies into automation
Design and maintain cloud infrastructure pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar
Enable application teams to deploy infrastructure safely and consistently
Improve developer experience through self-service patterns and documentation
Implement standards for tagging, cost allocation, and resource naming
Embed security and compliance controls into infrastructure automation
Ensure environments are built according to approved architecture patterns
Work with consulting partners to transition platform automation into internal ownership
Ensure infrastructure modules and pipelines are documented and maintainable
Coordinate with the MSP to align automation with operational support models
Help automate integration with logging, monitoring, and alerting platforms
Support platform-level reliability patterns such as multi-AZ deployments

Qualification

AWSTerraformCI/CD pipelinesAWS CDKCloudFormationNetworkingIAMData securityAutomation mindsetIntellectual curiosityCollaborationDocumentation

Required

Bachelor's degree in information management, computer sciences or technically related area
4+ years of experience in cloud engineering or platform engineering roles
Strong hands-on experience with AWS
Experience building infrastructure using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation
Experience designing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployments
Understanding of AWS networking, IAM, and core cloud architecture patterns
Experience working in environments with MSPs or external partners
Strong understanding of data security, access control, and governance in regulated environments
Experience working with system integrators or external partners during large platform initiatives

Preferred

Experience in insurance, annuities, or financial services
Experience in regulated industries such as insurance or financial services
Experience implementing AWS landing zones or multi-account environments
Familiarity with container platforms (EKS, ECS) and serverless architectures
Understanding of cloud security best practices and policy-as-code
AWS certifications (Associate or Professional level) a plus

Company

Obra Capital

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Obra Capital is a financial company that provides credit, insurance, consulting, wealth, and asset management services.

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
unknown
Key Investors
Aquarian HoldingsRedBird Capital Partners
2024-08-22Private Equity
2024-08-22Debt Financing
2023-10-16Secondary Market

Leadership Team

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Blair Wallace
Chief Executive Officer
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