Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering Lead - Commodities Trading - New York - up to $250k base + bonus & benefits

About the Role

Cititec has partnered with a global commodities trading firm is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering Lead to design, build and optimise the infrastructure platform supporting its trading, data and AI workloads.

While the organisation operates in a cloud-native environment, high-performance trading and data systems require carefully designed infrastructure to deliver reliability, scalability and performance.

This role sits at the intersection of traditional infrastructure engineering and modern cloud platform development, ensuring the platform can support demanding distributed systems and advanced data workloads.

You will work closely with engineering teams across the business, including data and AI platform teams, to ensure the underlying infrastructure enables high-performance systems at scale.

What You’ll Do

• Design and operate the firm’s cloud infrastructure platform
• Build scalable, high-performance cloud architecture
• Optimise infrastructure supporting trading systems and data platforms
• Design and maintain network architecture across cloud environments
• Implement and manage container platforms (Kubernetes)
• Develop infrastructure automation and platform tooling
• Support infrastructure requirements for data engineering and AI workloads
• Ensure platform reliability, observability and operational resilience
• Troubleshoot performance issues across distributed systems

Experience required

• The ideal candidate combines strong infrastructure fundamentals with modern cloud platform engineering experience.

Infrastructure Fundamentals

• Strong understanding of networking architecture
• Experience with virtualisation and distributed infrastructure
• Expertise in performance troubleshooting and optimisation
• Experience operating high-availability production environments

Cloud and Platform Engineering

• Strong experience with AWS, GCP or Azure
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container platforms
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation
• Understanding of platform reliability and operational best practices