Cloud Engineer – AWS Specialist

Requirements

• 4+ years experience as a Cloud Architect or Engineer with a strong focus on AWS technologies.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS services, including EKS, EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch and others.
• Experience in designing highly available, resilient, and secure cloud solutions for research or finance environments.
• Strong understanding of cloud security practices, encryption, and governance.
• Familiarity with DevOps principles and automation tools (e.g.: Terraform).
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.) and serverless architecture.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex cloud infrastructures.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across diverse technical and research teams.

What you'll be doing

• Design and implement custom AWS architectures to enhance the quantitative research and modelling processes of the desk.
• Collaborate with quantitative researchers, developers, and data scientists to understand their needs and translate them into scalable, flexible, and secure cloud solutions.
• Ensure the optimal performance, availability, and reliability of cloud infrastructure to support high-performance quantitative research and large-scale data analysis.
• Automate infrastructure deployment, management, and monitoring to streamline research operations and enable rapid prototyping.
• Continuously review and optimize cloud systems to ensure scalability, cost efficiency, and alignment with research and trading objectives.
• Stay up to date on AWS services, tools, and drive best practices within the AWS Specialists team.

Nice to haves

• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, etc.) are a plus.

Perks and benefits

• QRT is an equal opportunity employer welcoming diversity as essential to success.
• Initiatives and programs offered to enable employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance.