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Cloud Engineer – Quant Trading

£80,000-120,000 Plus Bonus

Quant Capital is urgently looking for a Cloud Engineer to join our high profile client.

This is an environment of Google or a startup where tech is number 1 with a huge budget allocated towards this. The firm is known globally for its attitudes and rigour more importantly, you will be surrounded by smart people deeply interested in teaching what they know, and in learning from you.

My client is a very well known Systematic Maths based Hedge Fund. They run around £50 Billion.

Platform Engineering designs and maintains the firm’s global network, operating systems, security policy and infrastructure, and core network services across datacenters, cloud services, and offices.

The Cloud Engineer will contribute to the design and implementation of these systems, with a primary focus on public cloud, including the integration of cloud with on-premises systems. You’ll work on systems to automate the management of the public cloud infrastructure, advise developers and peer teams on best practices, and interpret and enforce the firm’s security policy.

The ideal Cloud Security Engineer will have:

• A degree form a top institution
• Extensive knowledge of modern cloud environments (Ideally AWS but others considered), including their security properties, constraints, and the tradeoffs between different deployment options, is required, as is a knowledge of operating systems, networking, and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform).
• Proficiency in coding infrastructure products in Python, Go, or a similar language is required.
• Previous experience with the design and maintenance of mid-size cloud deployments (hundreds to thousands of nodes) is essential.
• In-depth knowledge of storage and networking configuration options available from different cloud providers is a prerequisite.

This role suits a candidate who has had responsibility early on in their career, someone who has worked in smaller agile companies with continual change. You must be hands on and have excellent experience of working in a demanding or jack of all trades environment. You will also be a techie motivated by technology. In return you will be rewarded seriously financially we have no limit on basic salary.

My client is based in London