Junior AWS Platform Engineer with 1-3 years of experience sought to join a leading Quant Hedge Fund, famed for their friendly and supportive culture.
A high number of candidates may make applications for this position, so make sure to send your CV and application through as soon as possible.
The firm are looking for an AWS-focused Platform Engineer to assist with their ongoing Cloud adoption and to collaborate directly with Quant Research and QD/Software teams, providing expertise and guidance in infrastructure usage. The opportunity would suit someone with a combination of strong development and operational skills across AWS, Terraform, Python, CI/CD, as well as commercial Linux, Docker and Kubernetes experience.
Responsibilities:
Your key tasks will be to facilitate the wider adoption of AWS technologies and modern infrastructure patterns within the wider business. Example projects include:
- Supporting and developing firmwide usage of Infrastructure-as-Code utilities, with a particular focus on enabling teams to manage their own application stacks.
- Enhancing CI/CD capabilities (CI, testing, deployments).
- Working with the other teams to enable and support their usage of AWS technologies, with a particular focus on the Research and Development areas.
- Help drive migration away from legacy infrastructure.
Technologies:
- AWS: Compute (EC2, ECS & EKS)
- Storage (S3, EBS, EFS & FSX)
- Security (IAM & SAML, Config, CloudTrail)
- Automation (EventBridge, Lambda)
- Logging & Monitoring (OpenSearch, CloudWatch, AMP, AMG)
- Managed Services (MWAA, MSK, Kinesis)
- Terraform & Terraform Cloud
- Scripting and automation (Bash, Python & PowerShell)
- Additional Hashicorp tools (Vault & Packer)
- CI/CD solutions (Jenkins, TeamCity, Argo)
Your experience :
- 1-3 years in a similar role (previous finance experience is not necessary).
- Solid knowledge of AWS technologies, particularly Container, Serverless, Automation and Security.
- Hands on experience designing and building testing & deployment pipelines - especially Jenkins, TeamCity and/or ArgoCD.
- Good working knowledge of Linux and Docker.
- Kubernetes experience preferred - especially Amazon EKS.
- Strong scripting abilities - especially witih Python.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a well-established Quant Hedge Fund with an excellent friendly culture and work/life balance (three days per week onsite). Please apply or contact .uk for more information. xwzovoh
Remote working/work at home options are available for this role.