Cloud Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Simetrik is seeking a Cloud Engineer to join our Product & Technology team. This is a remote position based in Colombia, offering the opportunity to work with a well-funded startup that empowers financial and operational teams to automate reconciliations end-to-end using no-code and generative AI.

🏢 About Simetrik

Founded in 2019, Simetrik is a robust B2B platform that handles two-thirds of Latin America's transactions with clients such as PayU, Mercado Libre, Rappi, PagSeguro, Falabella, Oxxo, Itaú, and Nubank. Our global footprint spans over 35 countries, monitoring 200+ million records daily.

🎯 The Role

Success in this role means maintaining a stable, secure, scalable infrastructure supported by efficient automation. A successful Cloud Engineer at Simetrik is proactive, collaborative, and solves complex technical problems, directly enhancing the product’s reliability and customer experience.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform
• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines
• Collaborate with development to automate testing, builds, and deployments
• Manage and monitor AWS services (ECS, EC2, RDS, Batch, etc.)
• Support technical tools and drive world-class operational processes
• Continuously improve SDLC with a focus on infrastructure and reliability
• Contribute to building a scalable SaaS platform with multidisciplinary teams

📌 Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering or similar roles
• Proven experience with Terraform and AWS services (ECS, ECR, S3, RDS, CloudFront, Batch, EC2)
• Strong knowledge of networking, load balancing, high availability, and security best practices
• Deep expertise with AWS cost management, governance, and the Well-Architected Framework
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Harness, etc.)
• Familiarity with observability tools (Datadog, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Scripting/programming skills in Python, Bash, or similar languages
• Good practices in containerization (Docker)

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with container orchestrators (Kubernetes, ECS Fargate, etc.)
• Familiarity with highly regulated or mission-critical environments
• Contributions to DevOps culture and agile delivery optimization

🎁 Benefits

• Well-funded, ambitious startup with competitive salaries
• Entrepreneurial culture—push limits, create, and collaborate every day
• Open communication with company leadership
• Small, dynamic teams = massive impact
• 100% Remote Work (work from anywhere)
• $500 USD a year for learning investments

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

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