Principal Cloud Architect

**About Monet Bank** Monet Bank is pioneering the future of banking and money movement — faster, more efficient, and built for the modern financial ecosystem. At our core, we believe Monet Bank is an essential bridge to the next generation of banking and payments infrastructure. As a profitable, well-capitalized Texas state-chartered bank and FDIC-Insured — backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government — Monet combines the strength and stability of traditional banking with forward-thinking financial technology innovation. If you are motivated by building secure, intentional, and future-ready banking infrastructure, we invite you to explore opportunities with Monet Bank. **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: you won't be one architect among many, you'll *be* our cloud function. If you like the pace of a startup but want the substance of building resilient, compliant infrastructure for a regulated bank, this is that role. **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. **Core Responsibilities** *(Essential duties include, but are not limited to):* **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 to the business. **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, and 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. **AI Platform Administration** As a secondary responsibility, administer Monet's AI platforms (Claude / ChatGPT): user provisioning and access controls, SSO/identity integration, and usage guidelines and security guardrails for responsible, compliant AI use in a regulated environment. This is a smaller, well-scoped part of the role alongside your core cloud work. **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 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 is required. **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 options include:** - Medical, dental and vision coverage - 401K with company match - 10 paid holidays - Accrue up to 17 vacation/sick days per year in your first year o…