Job Description

Systematic Asset Manager. 6 months. Primarily remote with monthly on-site.

A systematic asset manager is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to migrate their quantitative research compute environment from on-premise infrastructure to AWS — covering architecture design, distributed compute build-out, and full handoff to the permanent team. The primary deliverables are a distributed compute layer (Ray or AWS Batch), a research data lake (S3 + Athena), and a self-service compute platform for quant researchers.

This role requires cloud infrastructure experience gained within financial services or a quantitative research environment — hedge fund, asset manager, or investment bank. Understanding how quant researchers work, what they need from compute infrastructure, and the compliance and data security requirements of an investment firm is essential. Candidates from generic cloud engineering or enterprise IT backgrounds without financial services exposure are unlikely to be the right fit.

What they need:

→ 4+ years cloud infrastructure engineering on AWS, with experience migrating research or data-intensive financial workloads to cloud environments

→ Direct experience working within a financial services or quantitative research environment — understanding research workflows, data sensitivity, and compliance requirements

→ Distributed compute frameworks: Ray, Dask, or AWS Batch for backtesting or simulation workloads

→ Data lake architecture: S3, Athena, Glue, or Snowflake

→ Infrastructure-as-code: Terraform or CDK

→ FinOps experience — spot instance management, cost optimisation

→ Security and compliance: IAM policy design, encryption at rest and in transit in a regulated environment

Duration: 6 months.