Braid is a fintech company building modern banking and payment infrastructure to empower Community banks and Credit Unions to compete and thrive. We are a lean, senior team that values ownership, collaboration, and moving fast without breaking things that moves billions of dollars.The Role We are hiring a Senior AWS Platform Engineer to take ownership of our AWS environments. You will be the directly responsible individual for how our infrastructure is built, deployed, monitored, and secured. You will work closely with the engineering team and founders. This is a hands‑on individual‑contributor role. You will spend most of your time writing infrastructure as code, improving our deployment workflow, tightening our security posture, and making production boring in the best possible way.What You Will DoOwn the design, deployment, and ongoing health of our multi‑account AWS environmentEvolve our account strategy — improve environment isolation, security boundaries, and access patterns across accountsWrite and maintain infrastructure as code, and continuously improve how changes are reviewed, tested, and rolled outOwn VPC design, network segmentation, and security group hygiene across the platformOperate containerized services and managed databases in production, including backups, upgrades, and capacity planningTighten the platform's security posture — IAM, network boundaries, secrets management, and compliance controlsBuild and maintain monitoring, alerting, and on‑call runbooks so incidents are caught early and resolved quicklyOwn cloud cost visibility — implement tagging, budgets, and reporting so the team understands what we spend and whyPartner with application engineers to improve developer experience and shorten the path from commit to productionContribute to disaster recovery planning, incident response, and post‑incident reviewsWrite clear technical documentation that your teammates and future hires can actually useRequired QualificationsFive or more years building and operating production AWS environments — this is an AWS‑only shop and we need someone who already knows the platform deeplyHands‑on experience with AWS infrastructure as code (CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform with the AWS provider)Strong networking fundamentals in AWS — VPC design, subnets, security groups, NACLs, Route 53, and routingProduction experience running containerized workloads on ECS or EKSSolid operational experience with Amazon RDS, including backups, upgrades, parameter groups, and performance tuningStrong working knowledge of AWS IAM and the ability to reason about least‑privilege access, SCPs, and permission boundariesExperience owning the full incident lifecycle: detection, triage, mitigation, and blameless post‑mortemsComfortable writing Python, Go, TypeScript, or Bash well enough to build and debug glue code and automationProficiency with AI‑assisted development tools — you use LLMs and coding assistants to move faster and expect to keep up as the tooling evolvesExcellent written communication; you write runbooks and design docs without being askedPreferred QualificationsPrior experience in fintech, banking, payments, or another regulated industryFamiliarity with SOC 2, PCI‑DSS, or similar compliance frameworksExperience with AWS Organizations, SCPs, or multi‑account governance patternsExperience leading an infrastructure modernization or migration without a big‑bang rewriteWorking knowledge of AWS security services and logging / audit toolingExperience with AWS cost management, tagging strategies, or FinOps practicesAWS certifications (Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, or Security Specialty)How You WorkYou're biased toward making production safer, not toward chasing noveltyYou write things down and treat documentation as part of the deliverableYou push back constructively when a request would take the platform in a worse directionYou are comfortable holding context for a complex system and moving it forward a step at a time#J-18808-Ljbffr