Cloud Engineer - AWS Specialist
On-site · London, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Design and implement custom AWS architectures to enhance the quantitative research and modelling processes of the desk. Collaborate with quantitative researchers, developers, and data scientists to translate needs into scalable, flexible, and secure cloud solutions. Ensure optimal performance, availability, and reliability of cloud infrastructure to support high-performance quantitative research and large-scale data analysis. Automate infrastructure deployment, management, and monitoring to streamline research operations and enable rapid prototyping. Continuously review and optimize cloud systems for scalability, cost efficiency, and alignment with research and trading objectives. Stay up to date on AWS services, tools, and drive best practices within the AWS Specialists team.
Required Qualifications
- 4+ years experience as a Cloud Architect or Engineer with a strong focus on AWS technologies.
- In-depth knowledge of AWS services, including EKS, EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch and others.
- Experience in designing highly available, resilient, and secure cloud solutions for research or finance environments.
- Strong understanding of cloud security practices, encryption, and governance.
- Familiarity with DevOps principles and automation tools (e.g.: Terraform).
- Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.) and serverless architecture.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex cloud infrastructures.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across diverse technical and research teams.
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, etc.) are a plus.
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