Cloud Engineer - AWS Specialist
AWS Cloud Engineer | Paris
A globally renowned hedge fund is building the next generation of cloud-native infrastructure to power cutting-edge trading and research platforms and they're looking for a talented cloud engineer to be part of the journey. As a cloud engineer, you will play a pivotal role in engineering, scaling, and operating highly sophisticated AWS environments that drive real-time, high-performance systems. You'll join a collaborative team of elite engineers, where every cloud engineer contributes to building secure, resilient, and ultra-scalable platforms powered by AWS and Kubernetes.
This is an exciting opportunity for a cloud engineer to work on complex distributed systems, designing and optimising infrastructure that supports large-scale compute workloads in a fast-paced, high-impact environment. You'll be solving challenging technical problems while shaping the future of cloud-native platforms within a world-class engineering team.The ideal cloud engineer will bring strong AWS engineering experience alongside deep Kubernetes expertise (essential). This role is perfect for a cloud engineer who is passionate about infrastructure, platform engineering, and pushing the boundaries of modern cloud technologies.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable AWS cloud infrastructure for production workloads
- Architect and manage Kubernetes (EKS) environments for high-performance compute and orchestration
- Implement and optimise cloud-native solutions focused on reliability, scalability, and performance
- Own infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
- Ensure high availability, monitoring, and observability across cloud platforms
- Drive best practices in cloud security, access control, and governance
- Partner with engineering teams to deliver efficient and robust infrastructure solutions
Key Skills
- 4+ years experience as a Cloud Engineer / Platform Engineer / DevOps Engineer
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, RDS)
- Kubernetes expertise - mandatory (design, deployment, scaling, troubleshooting)
- Experience with containerisation (Docker) and orchestration at scale
- Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, and system reliability
- Experience operating production-grade cloud environments
Nice to Have
- Experience in high-performance or low-latency environments
- Exposure to financial services, trading systems, or large-scale compute platforms
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