Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer

MX is a fintech company on a mission to empower the world to be financially strong. We build technology that helps banks credit unions and fintechs deliver smarter more intuitive financial experiences to millions of people.

Like many startups weve navigated real growth challenges and weve come out stronger on the other side. Today MX is in a phase of renewed momentum and scale with a solid foundation and a clear vision for whats next. This is a place where thoughtful execution matters innovation is encouraged and individuals have real ownership over their work.

Our culture values curiosity accountability and impact. We give people the space to question assumptions design better solutions and help shape how the company grows. If youre looking to do meaningful work influence outcomes and grow alongside a company thats ready to move fast youll feel at home at MX.

At MX were on a mission to empower the world to be financially strong. We power the financial experiences behind thousands of banks credit unions and fintechs helping millions of people better understand manage and improve their financial lives. Our platform sits at the intersection of financial data cloud-scale infrastructure and trust and it has to work every time at massive scale.

Were entering a pivotal phase of our technology evolution: moving from legacy on-prem infrastructure to a modern cloud-native platform designed for resilience security and developer velocity. Its a chance to build the next generation of MXs platform thoughtfully reliably and with long-term impact in mind.

If you enjoy working on complex systems care deeply about uptime and reliability and want your work to directly power the financial well-being of millions this is where youll do the most meaningful work of your career.

What Youll Do

• Drive Cloud Migration: Drive the end-to-end migration of production workloads from on-premise data centers to GCP.

• Architect for Reliability: Design and implement production-grade Kubernetes environments and GCP architectures that prioritize 99.99% availability.

• Operational Excellence: Improve incident triage and improved recovery timeby implementing cloud-aware diagnostics and automated recovery patterns.

• Empower Developers: Reduce friction in the development lifecycle by optimizing platform response times and ensuring reliable repeatable deployment events.

• Platform Standards Security and Governance: Embed security and compliance controls directly into platform abstractions (policy-as-code identity networking) and partner with security and compliance teams to meet regulatory requirements by design.

• Mentor and Standardize: Build patterns and shared tooling that allow the broader engineering teams to operate confidently in the cloud without external reliance.

12-Month Definition of Success

Within 12 months you will have demonstrably delivered:

1. Cloud Migration Execution

• Successful migration of production workloads to public cloud
• Prevented customer-impacting regressions attributable to platform design
• Clear documented cloud architectures and operational runbooks

2. Reliability & Operations

• Sustained 99.99% availability during and after migration
• Improved incident triage and improved recovery time through cloud-aware diagnostics
• Production-grade Kubernetes operations in cloud

3. Team Uplift

• Platform team operating independently and confidently in cloud
• Shared standards tooling and golden paths adopted across teams
• Reduced reliance on external consultants or reactively addressing infrastructure issues

4. Developer Productivity

• Faster platform response times for developer issues
• More reliable deployments and fewer rollback events
• Clear reduction in developer-reported friction related to infrastructure

Basic Qualifications

• 10 Total years of experience in a developer devops SRE cloud role

• 5 years cloud experience (on-prem to cloud migration experience would be critical)

• 5 years Kubernetes and microservices operations experience at scale

• Exceptional incident triage and debugging skills in high-pressure environments

• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code CI/CD and observability tooling.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in Golang Ruby Java or similar systems programming languages.

• Experience building developer platforms or internal tooling or cloud enablement frameworks.

• Familiarity with Backstage Crossplane Argo Terraform policy-as-code frameworks or similar platform tooling.

• Familiarity with SRE practices SLIs/SLOs chaos engineering and reliability engineering frameworks.

At MX we are a high-performance organization that thrives on trust and results. This role is based in Lehi Utah. We believe in empowering our team members to deliver exceptional outcomes while taking advantage of our incredible office space when it best supports their work. Our Utah office features onsite perks such as company-paid meals a sports simulator gym mothers lounge and meditation room and meaningful interactions with amazing people. We encourage team members to come together in the office to collaborate kick off key projects or strategize cross-functionally fostering connection and innovation.

MX is proudly committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse and inclusive workforce. As an Equal Opportunity Employer we never discriminate based on race religion color national origin gender (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age military or veteran status status as an individual with a disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We particularly welcome applications from veterans and military spouses. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. You may request reasonable accommodations by sending an email to