Infrastructure Lead - Highly Prestigious Hedge Fund - New York

Mondrian Alpha; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Highly competitive compensation

Performance-based bonuses

Clear progression into broader technology leadership roles

Job summary

A prestigious hedge fund located in New York is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Lead to oversee and evolve its core technology estate. In this hands-on leadership role, you will drive infrastructure modernization initiatives, ensuring operational excellence across on-prem and cloud platforms. You’ll collaborate closely with security and engineering teams, impacting business-critical systems. This position offers competitive compensation and is a significant step into broader technology leadership roles.

Qualifications

• Experience driving infrastructure modernization initiatives.
• Ability to improve automation and reliability standards.
• Familiarity with both on-prem and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and evolve the firm’s infrastructure strategy.
• Ensure resilience, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with security and engineering teams.

Skills

Production experience in highly available environments

Understanding of infrastructure strategy

Strong technical depth

Team oversight

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering

Tools

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

My client, a highly prestigious hedge fund, is seeking an Infrastructure Lead to oversee and evolve its core technology estate.

Embedded within a high-performance engineering environment, you will take ownership of the firm’s infrastructure strategy, ensuring resilience, scalability, and operational excellence across both on-prem and cloud platforms. This is a hands‑on leadership role, combining technical depth with team oversight and long‑term architectural direction.

You will be responsible for driving infrastructure modernization initiatives, improving automation and reliability standards, and partnering closely with security, platform, and application engineering teams. The role requires strong production experience in highly available environments where uptime, performance, and risk management are critical.

This is an opportunity to shape infrastructure strategy within a performance‑driven organization, with direct visibility to senior stakeholders and meaningful impact on business‑critical systems.

To secure the most relevant hire, my client is prepared to offer highly competitive compensation, performance‑based bonuses, and clear progression into broader technology leadership roles.

Apply now via the link below or send your resume directly to [e-mail].