AWS Cloud Architect

About the position

When you join Atlanticus, you become a member of a fast-growing, mission-focused company that is committed to aid in meeting the financial needs of middle-class Americans. With a culture of collaboration and a one-team mindset, we encourage entrepreneurial thinking to empower our customers toward financial well-being. Atlanticus™ technology enables bank, retail, and healthcare partners to offer more inclusive financial services to everyday Americans through the use of proprietary analytics. We apply the experience gained and infrastructure built from servicing over 20 million customers and over \$40 billion in consumer loans over more than 25 years of operating history to support lenders that originate a range of consumer loan products. These products include retail and healthcare, private label credit and general-purpose credit cards marketed through our omnichannel platform, including retail point-of-sale, healthcare point-of-care, direct mail solicitation, digital marketing, and partnerships with third parties. Additionally, through our Auto Finance subsidiary, Atlanticus serves the individual needs of automotive dealers and automotive non-prime financial organizations with multiple financing and service programs.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and own AWS-based solutions across multiple environments (dev, staging, production)
  • Independently build, deploy, and manage infrastructure using Terraform (IaC)
  • Design and operate containerized platforms on Amazon EKS, including deployments using Helm
  • Define and enforce cloud architecture standards, governance, and best practices
  • Define and manage IAM roles and policies aligned with team responsibilities and least-privilege principles
  • Implement best practices for multi-account AWS environments, including AWS Organizations, SCPs, and account structure
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows (Jenkins, Argo CD, etc.)
  • Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting, and continuously improve system reliability and performance
  • Optimize AWS costs through right-sizing, usage analysis, and architectural improvements
  • Leverage AI/ML and agentic AI tools to automate infrastructure management, incident response, and operational tasks
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure and platform issues independently

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in cloud engineering/architecture with strong hands-on delivery
  • Deep expertise in AWS services (EKS, IAM, EC2, ALB/NLB, RDS, Route 53, etc.)
  • Strong hands-on experience with Terraform (mandatory)
  • Proven experience designing and operating Kubernetes (EKS) platforms
  • Experience with Helm for application deployment and management
  • Strong understanding of AWS security best practices, especially IAM and access control
  • Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitOps, Argo CD, etc.)
  • Solid understanding of networking concepts (subnets, routing, DNS, load balancing, security groups, NACLs)
  • Experience using AI-powered developer tools or agentic AI systems to improve engineering efficiency and automation

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience with Argo CD / GitOps workflows
  • Exposure to monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana)
  • Knowledge of service mesh (Istio, Linkerd) and container security tools
  • Experience managing multi-account AWS environments at scale
  • Familiarity with AI-driven automation frameworks, copilots, or autonomous agents for DevOps
  • AWS Certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, etc.)

Benefits

  • Generous PTO and holiday schedule
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Ongoing training (lunch & learns, financial and health webinars)
  • Team volunteer outings
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