Senior Cloud Engineer

Balyasny Asset Management L.P.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Balyasny Asset Management L.P. is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer in New York to own and evolve our cloud strategy, architecture, and platform reliability. You will mentor engineers, partner with developers, and drive scalable infrastructure across AWS and GCP.

The role emphasizes Kubernetes automation, self-service cloud capabilities, and strong observability with Grafana and Prometheus. You will participate in on-call rotations and stay ahead of cloud and Kubernetes trends to empower our

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience architecting large-scale public cloud services.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise, including cluster creation, security, and deployments.
• Strong DevOps and Platform Engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Mentor Cloud Engineering team members.
• Architect and manage BAM's public cloud environments (AWS, GCP).
• Design and automate Kubernetes offerings and cloud solutions.
• Collaborate with developers and stakeholders to address cloud needs.
• Write infrastructure automation code (Python, Terraform, Go).
• Develop self-service capabilities for cloud services.
• Participate in on-call rotation and maintenance.
• Integrate observability with Grafana and Prometheus.
• Stay current with cloud and Kubernetes trends.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python

Go

DevOps

Mentoring

On-call

Public cloud

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

This exciting hands-on role within our Infrastructure team will provide you with the opportunity to make a lasting impact on the firm’s cloud implementation, strategy, and architecture design. At BAM, you will have the chance to work with some of the smartest and most driven individuals in the industry.

As a Senior Cloud Engineer at BAM, you will:

• Serve as a mentor and guide to Cloud Engineering team members.
• Run internal projects efficiently with self-managing autonomy.
• Play a key role in architecting and managing BAM’s public cloud environments (AWS, GCP).
• Help to design and automate BAM's Kubernetes offerings, especially managed cloud offerings.
• Partner with developers and internal stakeholders to understand requirements and provide recommendations for cloud solutions and strategies to address those needs.
• Work with Infrastructure & Platform teams to provide a consistent end user experience across BAM’s on-premise and cloud environments.
• Write code to automate and optimize deployment of infrastructure and applications (whether it’s Python, Terraform, Go, or something else).
• Develop self-service capabilities that allow stakeholders to access cloud services quickly and efficiently.
• Implement and support applications running on BAM’s cloud and Kubernetes systems, especially as they support our user-facing platforms.
• Integrate our platforms with open-source observability tools like Grafana and Prometheus.
• Use LLMs and autonomous agents as force multipliers for our offerings.
• Stay up to date with the latest trends and offerings within the cloud and Kubernetes computing space, and act as a champion of their adoption across the organization.
• Participate in out-of-hours on-call rotation and maintenance.

To be considered a good fit, you should have:

• Extensive hands-on experience architecting and implementing large-scale, highly available, services on public cloud.
• Practical skills with Kubernetes as a platform, including cluster creation from scratch, cluster management, security, deployment of applications, and experience with managed Kubernetes platforms.
• A familiarity with and commitment to DevOps and Platform Engineering best practices.