Earnest empowers people with the financial capital they need to live better lives.

We're an accomplished team of technology, finance, and design geeks who believe consumer lending can be radically improved and are doing something about it. We are disrupting the trillion dollar student loan industry by redefining what it means to be creditworthy. We created a company that combines data science, streamlined design, and technology to:

• Build products that simplify the lending process
• Personalize loans to suit the needs of our customers
• Engage with our customers through more human experiences

Our culture is one that values transparency and blameless problem solving. Earnest has a strong track record of employee growth and career progression. Earnies are empathetic, product-focused, proactive, and curious.

As the Senior Cloud Engineer, you will report to the Head of Infrastructure. You will collaboratively build upon our cutting-edge infrastructure platform, directly affecting how we scale, secure, and monitor our systems throughout the organization. You will work on our Infrastructure team made up of experienced Cloud Engineers with diverse backgrounds. Initiatives you will be a part of include: 

• AWS support, operation, scale, and architect to ensure high availability of all systems
• Automating and streamlining standard infrastructure operations.
• Database support with AWS Relational Database Service, Postgres, and Redshift
• Ansible Support and improvements to automation
• Microservice Deployment Process creation, operation, and upgrades
• Use of modern project management software such as JIRA to organize projects and track progress.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience working in a production environment
• Background in Linux/UNIX (Debian/Ubuntu, AWS Linux)
• Information Security best practices, particularly in the context of AWS
• Experience with Amazon Web Services, preferably with multiple AWS offerings
• Experience with configuration management & automation (Ansible, Cloudformation, Terraform, etc.)
• Monitoring and Metrics gathering (Splunk, Prometheus, CloudWatch, Nagios)
• Experience working with Kubernetes / OpenShift or a different container orchestration system

Earnest Perks & Benefits:

• Health, Dental, & Vision benefits plus savings plans
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• 401(k) plan to help you save for retirement plus a company match
• Tuition reimbursement program
• $1000 flight on each Earnie-versary to anywhere in the world and 25 days of annual PTO

Earnest provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for the position in a manner consistent with the Fair Chance Ordinance.