The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

Engineering - Cloud Architecture and Engineering - Systems Engineer - Associate - Seattle

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc$100K — $130K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-8 years of relevant experience in cloud, infrastructure, or platform engineering, focusing on architecture and design.
  • Hands-on familiarity with AWS core services including EC2, ECS, and VPC.
  • Solid understanding of Linux-based systems and their interaction with infrastructure.
  • Strong grasp of cloud networking, storage, and security fundamentals.
  • Experience in defining or reviewing system designs in a multi-team environment.
  • Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code concepts and tooling, focusing on standards and reuse.
  • Strong communication skills for conveying complex architectural topics.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to system design discussions and implementations.
  • Understand customer workloads and infrastructure components.
  • Build and operate secure, reliable, and highly available AWS-based systems.
  • Define and evolve cloud architecture patterns and design standards for AWS.
  • Act as a trusted architectural advisor to guide workload design decisions.
  • Shape hybrid and cloud networking architectures using AWS services.
  • Contribute to architectural documentation and best practices for cloud adoption across the firm.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge cloud technologies.
  • Exposure to complex architectural challenges and solutions.
  • Focus on innovation and enhancing operational efficiency.
  • Possibility for professional growth in a fast-paced global firm.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Foundational Infrastructure

As part of Foundation Engineering at Goldman Sachs, the Foundational Infrastructure Cloud Architecture and Engineering team is responsible for designing new cloud patterns and solutions to transform our key infrastructure platforms to be cloud native enabling the use of public cloud services across the firm. You will be working as part of multi-disciplinary team responsible for researching, architecting and building a cutting-edge platform that enable Goldman Sachs teams to deploy and manage services in public cloud safely and securely. We are at an early stage of modernizing our platforms around cloud native principles, and you will be directly contributing to cloud patterns that programmatically enforce safety, security and compliance of services and enables engineers to innovate faster. You will also assist early adopters in their use of these new solutions to ensure their efficacy and efficiency and get feedback that will drive further automation and enhancements.

The organization is seeking highly collaborative, creative, and intellectually curious engineers who are passionate about developing and implementing cutting-edge cloud computing solutions. The ideal candidate will thrive in a DevOps culture and contribute to customer-centric product development. They will work closely with cross-functional teams, and will be creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced global environment.

Responsibilities And Qualifications:

As part of our global Cloud team, you will work as a Systems Engineering contributing to the design, development, testing, and lifecycle management of cloud infrastructure components. You are expected to:
  • Contribute to system design discussions and implementations
  • Understand customer workloads and infrastructure components
  • Build and operate secure, reliable, and highly available AWS-based systems
  • Develop hands-on experience with production cloud operating models


How You Will Fill Your Potential:
  • Define and evolve cloud architecture patterns, reference architectures, and design standards for AWS compute, storage, and networking
  • Act as a trusted architectural advisor to application and platform teams, guiding workload design decisions and cloud adoption strategies
  • Partner with engineering, security, and risk stakeholders to ensure cloud architectures meet firm-wide reliability, security, and compliance requirements
  • Review proposed cloud designs and provide architectural guidance on scalability, availability, connectivity, and operational resilience
  • Shape hybrid and cloud networking architectures using AWS services such as VPC, Transit Gateway, and Direct Connect, with a focus on consistency and reuse
  • Provide architectural guidance for migrating workloads from on-premises environments to AWS using standardized patterns and approved blueprints
  • Influence infrastructure automation by defining infrastructure-as-code standards, conventions, and reusable constructs (e.g., AWS CDK, CloudFormation)
  • Identify systemic architectural risks and gaps and recommend improvements to platform patterns, controls, and governance
  • Contribute to architectural documentation, design guidelines, and best practices to drive consistent cloud adoption across the firm
  • Collaborate with globally distributed engineering teams in a fast-paced, multi-initiative environment, influencing outcomes through design rather than direct production ownership


Basic Qualifications:
  • 3-8 years of relevant experience in cloud, infrastructure, or platform engineering, with a strong emphasis on architecture and design
  • Hands-on familiarity with AWS core services and concepts, including EC2, ECS, VPC, IAM, and foundational networking constructs
  • Solid understanding of Linux-based systems and how applications interact with underlying infrastructure
  • Strong grasp of cloud networking, storage, and security fundamentals, including routing, isolation, and shared services models
  • Experience defining or reviewing system and infrastructure designs in a multi-team or enterprise environment
  • Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code concepts and tooling, with an emphasis on standards and reuse rather than day-to-day operations
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex architectural topics to diverse technical audiences
  • Comfortable operating in agile and DevOps-oriented organizations as an architectural partner rather than a primary operator


Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience with hybrid cloud or on-premises-to-AWS migration architectures
  • Experience working with stateful, distributed, or highly available systems in AWS
  • Coding Skills: Demonstrated hands-on experience in scripting and coding, particularly with languages such as Python

About The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. provides investment banking, securities, and investment management services, as well as financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. Its Investment Banking segment offers financial advisory services, including advisory assignments concerning mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense, risk management, and restructurings and spin-offs; and underwriting services comprising public offerings and private placements of a range of securities, loans, and other financial instruments, and derivative transactions. The company’s Institutional Client Services segment provides client execution services, such as fixed income, currency, and commodities client execution related to making markets in interest rate products, credit products, mortgages, currencies, and commodities; and equities related to making markets in equity products, as well as executes and clears institutional client transactions on stock, options, and futures exchanges. This segment also engages in the securities services business providing financing, securities lending, and other brokerage services to institutional clients, including hedge funds, mutual funds, pension funds, and foundations. Its Investing and Lending segment originates longer-term loans; and invests in debt securities, loans, public and private equity securities, real estate, consolidated investment entities, distressed assets, currencies, commodities, and power generation facilities. The company’s investment management segment provides investment products and services, as well as offers wealth advisory services, including portfolio management and financial counseling, and brokerage and other transaction services.

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Join the prestigious team at The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., a global leader in finance and investments, and propel your career to new heights. Our firm is renowned for its commitment to excellence, innovation, and leadership in the financial sector.

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Learn more about The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc
Size
45,100 employees
Market Cap
$115.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
$9.4 billion
Founded
1869
5 Year Trend
+11.3%
Revenue
$53.4 billion
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