Principal Cloud Architect

Monet Bank is pioneering the future of banking and money movement — faster, more efficient, and built for the modern financial ecosystem. As a profitable, well‑capitalized Texas state‑chartered bank and FDIC‑Insured, Monet combines the strength and stability of traditional banking with forward‑thinking financial technology innovation.

About the Role

We’re a small, fast‑moving bank, and our cloud environment is core to everything we build. As a Senior Cloud Architect, you’ll own our AWS environment end‑to‑end — designing it, running it, securing it, and setting the standards we grow into. This is a hands‑on role with real autonomy and unusually direct impact.

What You’ll Own

• The design, operation, and security of Monet’s entire AWS environment.
• The migration and modernization path for key workloads to the cloud.
• The automation, resilience, and cost standards the rest of the team builds against.
• Administration of Monet’s AI platforms (Claude / ChatGPT): user provisioning, access controls, SSO/identity integration, usage guidelines, and security guardrails.

Core Responsibilities

• Architecture & delivery: Design and operate scalable, secure, cost‑effective AWS architectures across compute, storage, data, and networking; lead cloud migration and modernization with minimal disruption.
• Automation & operations: Drive Infrastructure‑as‑Code and CI/CD so provisioning is consistent, repeatable, and auditable; own monitoring, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and cost optimization; design backup and multi‑region failover strategies; maintain clear architecture documentation and data‑flow diagrams for operations and audit.
• Security & compliance: Define and enforce cloud security standards (network design, encryption, identity & access management) aligned to banking regulations; partner with Security and Risk to keep the architecture compliant by design.
• Collaboration: Work directly across a small, cross‑functional team and help establish engineering standards as the team grows; evaluate emerging technologies and manage key cloud vendor relationships.

Required Qualifications

• 8‑10 years in IT (at least 5 years in cloud architecture or infrastructure roles) with strong, hands‑on cloud experience, including demonstrated AWS delivery.
• Deep AWS expertise across compute, storage, networking, and databases.
• Hands‑on experience with Infrastructure‑as‑Code and CI/CD.
• Strong cloud network and security design: VPC, encryption, and identity and access management.
• Comfortable operating with autonomy in a small, fast‑paced environment and wearing multiple hats.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS certification (Solutions Architect – Professional).
• Edge security/CDN and observability tooling.
• Experience administering or governing enterprise AI platforms (e.g., OpenAI/ChatGPT).
• Financial services or other regulated‑industry experience.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) with company match.
• 10 paid holidays.
• Accrue up to 17 vacation/sick days per year in your first year on a pro‑rata basis.
• Eligibility for annual discretionary bonus.
• No relocation assistance provided.