AWS Cloud Engineer (Contract)

London - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

We tackle the most complex problems in quantitative finance by bringing scientific clarity to financial complexity.

From our London HQ we unite world-class researchers and engineers in an environment that values deep exploration and methodical execution because the best ideas take time to evolve. Together were building a world-class platform to amplify our teams most powerful ideas.

As part of our engineering team youll shape the platforms and tools that drive high-impact research designing systems that scale accelerate discovery and support innovation across the firm.

Take the next step in your career.

The role

In this role youll provide expertise in designing and operating cloud-native applications on AWS enabling engineering teams to successfully build test and deploy their workloads. Youll establish patterns and best practices across container/serverless workflows and observability while developing automation for AWS platform management including governance enforcement and operational tooling.

This is a highly collaborative role partnering with application engineers platform teams architecture and security to streamline effective cloud adoption application delivery and automated platform operations.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

Provide AWS application lifecycle expertise guiding teams on patterns and best practices for EKS ECS and Lambda workloads including establishing observability strategies across end-to-end delivery and operational phases
Supporting integrationsbetween AWS and internal tooling (source control build systems artifact repositories security scanningandmonitoring platforms)
Identifyingand reducing friction points in build test and deployment workflows to improve developer experience
Collaborating with platform and security teams to embed governance and operational best practices into pipelines
Creating andmaintainingtechnical documentation and reusable patterns
Advising on performance reliability and cost efficiency optimisation

Who are we looking for

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

Deepexpertisein Terraform beyond deploying infrastructure including designing modular reusable patterns and implementing testing strategies
StrongPythonengineering skills building robustautomationand tooling
Proficiencywith CI/CD tooling ideally Jenkins
Proven experience implementing container workflows withDockerandECR including image build automation and security scanning integration
Experience configuringCloudWatchfor logs metrics and alarms to enable observability across delivery and operational processes
Experience working closely with application teams to improve deployment reliability and developer experience
Ability to produce clear documentation andestablishrepeatable engineering patterns
Strong communicationskills comfortable collaborating across engineering platform architecture and security teams

Please note that contract applications for London based roles at G-Research are handled by one of our third party recruitment partners so your application will be managed through them.

G-Research is committed to cultivating and preserving an inclusive work environment. We are an ideas-driven business and we place great value on diversity of experience and opinions.

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