Job Description

We are looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to join a highly technical, fast-paced team at a leading systematic hedge fund. This role is for AWS experts who can integrate a wide range of cloud services, build high-performance infrastructure, and drive automation in a mission-critical financial environment.

 

What You’ll Do:

🔹 Architect and automate infrastructure in AWS, covering VPCs, Transit Gateway, Route 53, IAM, S3, EFS, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS, EKS (Kubernetes), and CloudFront.

🔹 Design and manage CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, or Jenkins), ensuring seamless code deployment.

🔹 Optimize networking and security across AWS, implementing firewalls, security groups, WAF, and IAM policies to maintain high compliance standards.

🔹 Manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS) for containerized workloads, ensuring scalability and security.

🔹 Build infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and automate deployments using Python.

🔹 Own the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for cloud services, from design to production.

🔹 Enhance observability and monitoring with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.

🔹 Work closely with quant researchers, developers, and trading teams to ensure robust infrastructure for high-frequency financial systems.

 

What We’re Looking For:

✅ Deep AWS expertise, covering a wide range of services with strong networking/security fundamentals.

✅ Expertise in Kubernetes (EKS), with experience in managing clusters and designing secure architectures.

✅ Strong Python development skills, particularly in automation, scripting, and API integrations.

✅ Experience designing CI/CD pipelines, automating deployments, and ensuring high availability.

✅ Networking and security knowledge – VPC peering, private link, VPNs, DNS (Route 53), and AWS security best practices.

✅ Experience with distributed systems like Kafka (preferred) or similar event-driven architectures.

✅ Financial services experience is a plus but not required—willingness to work in a high-performance trading environment is key.

 

Why Join?

🌎 Work at the cutting edge of cloud and DevOps within a systematic hedge fund.

💰 Highly competitive compensation package.

🔬 Deeply technical, engineering-driven culture where automation and innovation thrive.

🏦 Opportunity to work on complex financial systems at scale.

🏡 (3 to 4 days a week in office) with a focus on delivery over bureaucracy.

 

If you’re a DevOps leader with exceptional AWS expertise, this is your chance to join a high-impact, fast-moving team at the forefront of systematic trading.