Cloud Engineer– Quant Trading

Overview

In this role you will design and implement the firm’s cloud infrastructure, focusing on public cloud integration with on-prem systems. You’ll automate cloud management, guide development teams on best practices, and ensure alignment with the firm’s security policy. You’ll work within Platform Engineering to scale and secure a global infrastructure in a fast-paced, finance-focused environment. This is a hands-on role with a strong emphasis on technical excellence and meaningful impact in a leading hedge fund setting.

Pay / Benefits

• highly competitive compensation
• London base
• strong budget for tech
• global exposure
• learning culture
• collaborative environment

Responsibilities

• Design and implement cloud infrastructure and its integration with on-prem systems
• Automate management of public cloud resources and deploy scalable deployments
• Advise developers and peer teams on best practices and security compliance
• Interpret and enforce the firm’s security policy across cloud environments
• Maintain and improve OS, networking, and core infrastructure services across datacenters and offices

Key requirements

• Extensive knowledge of modern cloud environments (preferably AWS) and their security properties
• Solid understanding of operating systems, networking, and infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Proficiency in coding infrastructure products in Python or Go
• Experience designing and maintaining mid-size cloud deployments (hundreds to thousands of nodes)
• In-depth knowledge of cloud provider storage and networking options
• Hands-on experience in agile, fast-changing environments
• Hands-on and practical mindset
• Strong collaboration in cross-functional teams
• Adaptable in a jack-of-all-trades environment
• AWS (or other cloud environments)
• Terraform
• Python or Go

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