Cloud Engineering Manager (Fintech)

Location: Hybrid, with three days per week onsite in the San Francisco FiDi or Culver City office.

Salary: $181,000–$265,000 USD per year for the Los Angeles, CA range.

Company

hirify.global is building an AI platform for wealth professionals and transforming the wealth management industry for financial advisors.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, hire, and develop cloud, DevOps, and database reliability engineers across local and offshore locations.
• Own the cloud engineering roadmap, including the EKS platform, disaster recovery, Postgres upgrades, and edge gateway consolidation.
• Drive software supply chain security and SDLC improvements through SBOMs, signed provenance, hardened images, and policy-as-code.
• Own cloud on-call operations, incident response, SLAs, runbooks, blameless post-mortems, and follow-up actions.
• Improve developer experience through ephemeral environments, faster pipelines, self-service infrastructure, and DORA metrics.
• Manage cloud and observability costs and represent Cloud Engineering in audits and regulatory reviews.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE, including 2+ years managing engineers in a B2B financial services, fintech, or SaaS organization.
• Deep production-scale AWS expertise across networking, IAM, compute, storage, and cost management.
• Strong Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code experience with EKS, Terraform, Helm, GitOps, and ArgoCD.
• Experience owning CI/CD with GitLab pipelines, artifact and secrets management, Vault, and release safety.
• Production on-call and incident response experience, with observability expertise using OpenTelemetry, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Track record of hiring, developing, and retaining engineers, including remote and offshore team members.

Nice to have

• AI-assisted engineering workflow experience, including Claude best practices.
• Experience with regulated environments, SOC 1/SOC 2, FINRA or SEC examinations, and evidence automation.
• Experience with Kong, Envoy, Gateway API, Postgres operations, Teleport, Vault, Karpenter, or policy engines.
• Experience running disaster recovery exercises and knowledge of brokerage platforms or financial services.

Culture & Benefits

• Values include kindness, brilliance, and grit, with an emphasis on respectful debate, ownership, growth, and resilience.
• Premium healthcare, dental, and vision insurance plans.
• 401(k) savings plan with a 4% match and immediate vesting.
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave after one year of employment.
• Professional development support, including an employee mobility program and annual learning and development budget.
• One-month work-from-anywhere policy, except for a few countries.