This Company is a leading global alternative investment manager with a strong track record across macro, fixed income, foreign exchange, and digital asset strategies. Managing significant assets on behalf of institutional investors worldwide, the firm serves a diverse client base that includes pension funds, endowments, insurance companies, government entities, private banks, and fund-of-funds. With a global footprint spanning major financial centers across North America, Europe, and Asia, the organization is recognized for its investment performance, operational excellence, and robust risk management practices.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to help design and build a best-in-class cloud infrastructure environment within a high-performance investment organization. The successful candidate will leverage deep technical expertise while helping shape the future direction of the firm's cloud platform in a fast-paced, collaborative setting.

• Deep understanding of AWS cloud services, including networking, storage, load balancing, containers, messaging, serverless technologies, and observability solutions.
• Deploy, manage, and scale production Kubernetes (EKS) environments.
• Administer and support Linux-based systems (RHEL and Debian-based distributions).
• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
• Enhance and maintain configuration management frameworks using Ansible.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues in mission-critical environments.
• Partner with development teams, business stakeholders, and other internal groups to translate requirements into scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Apply engineering best practices while balancing quality, reliability, and speed of delivery.

• Demonstrated success delivering projects from design through production deployment.
• Experience collaborating with engineers, business stakeholders, and senior leadership.
• Strong production support and incident response experience in high-pressure environments.
• Experience managing and operating cloud-native infrastructure at scale.

• Building highly available platforms supporting financial services, trading systems, or large-scale internet-facing applications.
• Working within hybrid cloud and on-premises environments.
• Experience in financial services, hedge funds, asset management, or other regulated industries.

Required:

• Strong expertise across core AWS services.
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing containerized applications in production.
• Understanding of service mesh concepts and modern distributed systems architectures.
• Strong automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and configuration management experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred:

• Experience supporting both cloud and physical infrastructure, including servers, networking hardware, and storage systems.
• Familiarity with modern and emerging AWS services.
• Security-focused mindset with a pragmatic approach to risk management.

• New York City (4 days onsite, 1 day remote).