Junior AWS Platform Engineer - Quant Hedge Fund (London / Hybrid)
3 days ago
City of London
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. 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 and Scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell…) as well as commercial Linux and Docker 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 our 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., • Good working knowledge of Linux and docker., • Strong scripting abilities. 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 for more information.