Junior AWS Platform Engineer - Quant Hedge Fund (London / Hybrid)
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 Adam@winston-fox.co.uk for more information.