Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS Specialist

Quberesearchandtechnologies; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect/Engineer focused on AWS to design scalable research platforms and secure, resilient cloud solutions. You will collaborate with researchers and developers to translate requirements into robust cloud architectures, automate deployments, and optimize performance and costs.

The role emphasizes high availability, security governance, and staying current with AWS best practices within a fast-paced research environment.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• 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 translate needs into scalable, flexible cloud solutions.
• Ensure the optimal performance, availability, and reliability of cloud infrastructure for high-performance research and large-scale data analysis.
• Automate infrastructure deployment, management, and monitoring to streamline research operations.
• Continuously review and optimize cloud systems for scalability and cost efficiency.
• Stay up to date on AWS services and drive best practices within the AWS Specialists team.

Skills

AWS

Cloud architecture

DevOps

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud security

Troubleshooting

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology and trading expertise has shaped QRT’s collaborative mindset which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high quality returns for our investors.

Your future role within QRT:

You will be part of a global team comprising Quantitative Traders, Researchers and Developers. Our AWS specialists are essential in building the next generation of research platforms, leveraging technologies like EKS, Lambda, SSM, IAM, Secrets Manager, RDS, DynamoDB, Redis, and CloudWatch.

• 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.

Your present skillset:

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

QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.