Job Description

Job Category: Associate
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Who We Are
At Goldman Sachs, we connect people, capital and ideas to help solve problems for our clients. We are a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities and investment management services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals.
About the role
We're looking for an Associate Cloud DevOps Engineer to support the design, automation, and operation of our cloud runtime platforms for Marcus Deposits. You'll contribute to infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability, and reliability efforts while learning from senior engineers and collaborating with application teams, Tech Risk, and vendor platforms.
What you will do

• Support the design and operation of AWS infrastructure (EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda/ECS/EKS) using CloudFormation and AWS CDK.
• Assist in CI/CD pipeline development and maintenance (GitLab CI/Jenkins/GitHub Actions/AWS CodePipeline).
• Contribute to observability efforts including metrics, logs, traces, and alerting systems.
• Participate in incident response and post-incident reviews; help reduce MTTR through automation.
• Automate operational tasks using TypeScript and scripting languages; codify ops playbooks.
• Help implement security controls including secrets management, network segmentation, and firewall policies.
• Collaborate on cost optimization strategies and performance tuning.
• Learn and apply best practices across Dev, Runtime, and vendor teams.
• Support Kafka-based eventing and MongoDB-backed services as needed.

Basic qualifications

• 2-4 years' experience in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering with production AWS experience.
• Experience with CloudFormation and AWS CDK; solid Linux fundamentals and shell scripting.
• CI/CD pipeline exposure (GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or CodePipeline).
• Containers and orchestration (Docker, EKS/ECS); understanding of progressive delivery.
• Proficiency in TypeScript for automation.
• Solid understanding of networking and security (VPCs, routing, security groups, firewalls).
• Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally.
• AWS certification preferred (e.g., AWS DevOps Engineer, AWS Solutions Architect).

Preferred qualifications

• GitOps (Argo CD/Flux) and service mesh fundamentals; APM/RUM (Dynatrace/New Relic).
• Operating Kafka and MongoDB in production; experience with microservices & distributed systems.
• Experience in regulated environments (financial services), with audit and control practices.
• PagerDuty administration and on-call program exposure; cost governance/FinOps familiarity.
• Proficiency in Python (or Bash/Go) for automation.
• Familiarity with observability stacks (CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, Splunk/ELK, Datadog) and alerting practices.

Goldman Sachs Engineering Culture
At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don't just make things - we make things possible. Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas. Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action. Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets.
Engineering is at the critical center of our business, and our dynamic environment requires innovative strategic thinking and immediate, real solutions. Want to push the limit of digital possibilities? Start here!
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