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Altruist is transforming wealth management by building an AI platform for financial advisors. The company partners with advisors nationwide to help them grow, optimize resources, and deliver superior client outcomes.
As Cloud Engineering Manager, you will lead the Cloud Infrastructure & Platform team responsible for building Infrastructure as a Service across all product teams at Altruist. This is a hands-on leadership role combining strategic oversight with technical depth.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of cloud, DevOps, and database reliability engineers across local and offshore locations, managing 1:1s, growth paths, performance, and hiring decisions.
- Own delivery of the Cloud Engineering roadmap: governed EKS platform for Broker-Dealer and Clearing systems, pilot-light disaster recovery (RTO ≤ 60 min / RPO ≤ 15 min), Postgres upgrades, and edge gateway consolidation.
- Drive software supply chain security and SDLC hygiene through SBOMs, signed provenance, hardened golden images, and policy-as-code admission control in partnership with Security Engineering.
- Own the cloud on-call rotation and incident response process, including SLAs, runbooks, blameless post-mortems, and action item follow-through.
- Improve developer experience through ephemeral environments, faster pipelines, and self-service infrastructure, measured by DORA metrics.
- Manage cloud and observability spend with cost-per-service visibility, making trade-offs explicit to Finance and engineering leadership.
- Represent Cloud Engineering in audits and regulatory reviews with automated evidence.
- Mentor engineers on secure infrastructure practices ensuring systems are performant and resilient.
Required qualifications: 6+ years in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE, including 2+ years managing engineers at a B2B financial services, fintech, or SaaS organization. Deep AWS expertise across networking, IAM, compute, storage, and cost management at production scale. Strong Kubernetes (EKS) and Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform, Helm, and GitOps (ArgoCD). Practiced CI/CD ownership with GitLab pipelines, artifact and secrets management (Vault), and release safety. Operational credibility with production on-call rotation experience and ability to serve as senior escalation point. Observability fluency with OpenTelemetry, SLOs, and error budgets. Track record of hiring, developing, and retaining engineers including remote and offshore team members.
