Senior Cloud Engineer

Kunai builds full-stack technology solutions for banks, credit and payment networks, infrastructure providers, and their customers. Together, we are changing the world’s relationship with financial services. At Kunai, we help our clients modernize, capitalize on emerging trends, and evolve their business for the coming decades by remaining tech-agnostic and human-centered.

As part of our Cloud Engineering team, you'll thrive at the intersection of innovation and technology, working alongside industry leaders to craft impactful solutions to complex challenges. Collaborating with top global banks, your team will reimagine and modernize their cloud infrastructure, driving enterprise-wide transformation.

In this role, you will:

Discover & Assess

• Dive into client environments to explore application workloads, infrastructure dependencies, and security controls.

• Help identify gaps and recommend cloud adoption strategies.

• Assist in delivering insightful reports with actionable recommendations.

Plan & Migrate

• Aid in the design and implement migration strategies to reduce risks and unlock automation opportunities.

• Enable smooth migrations for various workloads, including containerized applications and data analytics.

• Utilize deployment models like blue-green strategies for continuous availability.

Build & Automate

• Develop scalable and secure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.

• Automate pipelines with security and compliance as a default.

• Craft innovative solutions tailored to complex client challenges.

Orchestrate & Containerize

• Build robust container strategies to streamline development-to-production workflows.

• Automate container orchestration and standardize processes.

Optimize & Innovate

• Ensure cloud environments run efficiently with automated performance and cost optimization.

• Implement high-availability configurations and dynamic scaling strategies.

Security

• Embed automated security frameworks and access controls into cloud operations.

• Guarantee compliance with all deployment requirements through automated validation.

Qualifications:

• 5 + yrs of cloud migration experience GCP and AWS

• Working experience in Python

• AWS CDK, AWS Aurora

• GCP BigQuery, GCP Cloud Spanner

• Terraform (IaC), Cloud Code

• DevOps expertise (CI/CD, Jenkins, Harness)

• Kubernetes expertise

Salary Range: $120,000 - $205,000 annuallyThis range reflects the base salary that we reasonably expect to pay for Senior Software Engineers. Actual compensation may vary depending on relevant factors including experience, skills and location.

Our success over the past 20 years is rooted in our exceptional team, which thrives in a culture of collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning.

We are proud to offer our employees a range of benefits, including competitive compensation, professional development opportunities, and flexible work arrangements, all designed to help them thrive. As we continue to expand, we remain committed to cultivating an environment where people feel valued, have a voice, and are given the tools to grow—both personally and professionally—while pushing the boundaries of innovation in the fintech industry.

Minimum Degree Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree, in lieu of a degree, demonstrating in addition to the minimum years of experience required for the role, three years of specialized training and/or progressively responsible work experience in technology for each missing year of college is required