
Cloud Engineer II
Earnest
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $120,000 - $150,000 per year
About the role
- Own and improve AWS infrastructure components supporting high-availability production systems, contributing to reliability, performance, and security standards.
- Strengthen reliability and observability by improving SLOs, monitoring, alerting, automation, and reducing MTTR through durable post-incident fixes.
- Build and enhance infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD systems (Terraform, Ansible, modern tooling) to improve scalability, deployment safety, and developer experience.
- Drive operational excellence through automation, cost optimization (FinOps awareness), strong documentation, and active participation in a blameless on-call culture
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience supporting production cloud infrastructure in modern environments
- Strong Linux/UNIX fundamentals and hands-on experience operating systems in production
- Practical experience with AWS and core cloud services in high-availability environments
- Experience building and maintaining infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or similar
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, or comparable systems)
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS) and how they apply in distributed systems
- Experience supporting relational databases in production environments
Benefits
- Health, Dental, & Vision benefits plus savings plans
- Mac computers + work-from-home stipend to set up your home office
- Monthly internet and phone reimbursement
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- 401(k) plan to help you save for retirement plus a company match
- Robust tuition reimbursement program
- $1,000 travel perk on each Earnie-versary to anywhere in the world
- Competitive days of annual PTO
- Competitive parental leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
AWSLinuxUNIXTerraformAnsibleDockerKubernetesTCP/IPDNSTLS
Soft Skills
reliabilityperformancesecurityautomationdocumentationoperational excellencecost optimizationblameless culture