AWS DevOps Engineer - Hedge Fund, up to £120K - Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited : Job Details

The Company

Join our client's dynamic Platforms team, where they deliver cutting-edge technology solutions in collaboration with Quant Dev teams. Their mission is to support portfolio managers and trading teams with top-notch technology and data-analysis consultancy.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance key platform features for the Front Office, utilised by multiple teams.
• Contribute to a modern, automated, cloud-native continuous delivery stack.
• Work closely with quant development teams to define requirements for strategic internal products.
• Continuously improve the security, reliability, and cost-efficiency of our platform and infrastructure.
• Automate processes wherever feasible.
• Advocate for best practices across Cloud and DevOps toolchains.
• Quickly grasp new technologies and solve complex problems.
• Enhance the developer experience for internal platforms.
• Address specific needs of trading teams, implementing reusable patterns where applicable.

Requirements

• Minimum of 4 years as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or SRE.
• Proficiency with standard CI/CD technologies.
• Understanding of various deployment units, including servers, containers, and serverless.
• 4+ years of experience with cloud platforms, ideally AWS, also open to Azure and GCP.
• Strong skills in automation scripting.
• Proficiency in Linux.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Serverless Framework, or AWS SAM.
• Experience with GitHub Actions, Argo CD.
• Knowledge of Python, Packer, PostgreSQL.
• Basic understanding of distributed computing and accelerators (e.g., ray, dask, jax).

Interested parties, please submit your application with an updated CV. For more details, reach out to Brian Law at for a confidential discussion.

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