AWS Cloud Engineer

About

Our client, a globally renowned hedge fund, is building the next generation of cloud-native research platforms that power advanced trading and data-driven strategies. You'll join a highly collaborative environment of quantitative researchers, developers, and engineers, where AWS specialists play a critical role in designing and scaling infrastructure for high-performance research and large-scale data analysis. This is a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge cloud architecture in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment.

They are looking for both junior and senior engineers with strong AWS expertise and deep Kubernetes knowledge who can design secure, scalable, and high-performing cloud solutions while partnering closely with research teams. If you're an engineer who loves solving complex infrastructure challenges, building modern cloud platforms, and working at the intersection of data, research, and technology, you're going to love this.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement custom AWS architectures to support quantitative research and modelling
• Collaborate with researchers, developers, and data scientists to build scalable and secure cloud solutions
• Ensure performance, reliability, and availability of cloud infrastructure
• Automate infrastructure deployment, monitoring, and management
• Continuously improve systems for scalability, cost-efficiency, and speed

Key Skills

• 4+ years experience as a Cloud Engineer or Architect (senior/junior hires)
• Strong experience with AWS services (EKS, EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch)
• Kubernetes expertise (mandatory)
• Experience with containerisation (Docker) and serverless architecture
• Knowledge of DevOps and IaC tools (e.g. Terraform)
• Strong understanding of cloud security, encryption, and governance