Senior Cloud Engineer

A leading systematic investment manager is seeking to hire a distinguished Cloud Engineer in London. This role will be working directly with the Lead Cloud Engineer in designing, building and supporting their business-wide, hybrid cloud infrastructure.

The role is focused on developing infrastructure-as-a-service solutions. You will join a highly-customized environment where proprietary tools and technology run. You will be expected to help build the pioneering tools to keep our systems best-in-class. You will help enable our technology evolution while maintaining control and keeping us trading.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, optimize, and support AWS EC2, VPC and S3 infrastructure, along with our IAM and AWS organizational configuration;
• Troubleshoot OS (Linux/Unix), storage, and network issues;
• Evaluate and compare both hardware, software, and cloud solutions as potential options;
• Manage capacity planning for both on premises and cloud infrastructure;
• Develop and deploy Python and/or PowerShell automation for job scheduling, monitoring, and configuration management.

Technical requirements:

• 5+ years building E2E cloud solutions
• Must have strong AWS experience (exposure to other platforms as well is plus)
• Strong understanding of Python
• Strong exposure to building serverless APIs
• Experience in configuration management
• Solid understanding of Linux systems
• Good knowledge of containerisation (Docker)