Cloud Engineer at PDT Partners

New York, NYFull-timeTechnologyPosted 3 months ago

About the Role

We’re looking for a Cloud Engineer, with a passion for public cloud, automation, and configuration management to join our world-class team.  PDTers are creative, energetic, friendly, entrepreneurial, and collaborative. If you could walk around our office, you’d see that we’re a focused, intent, and nimble company with none of the attitude and bureaucracy of a stereotypical Wall Street trading firm. Our engineers love to work on challenging and complicated problems, and in return, they have a chance to make a direct impact on our bottom line. For the right talent, there is fantastic growth potential.   Quality cloud infrastructure is crucial to PDT’s growth and success, and as a  member of our Core Engineering team, you’ll architect and build our next generation cloud platform, ensuring all our PDT engineering teams have access to the cloud on top of a performant, consistent, well-monitored, and secure cloud platform.  In addition to building the cloud platform, you’ll collaborate closely with engineering teams, helping their applications work well with the cloud.   This is a hybrid position and will require the person to work from our New York City office at minimum 3 days a week Why join us?  PDT Partners has a 30+ year track record and a reputation for excellence. Our goal is to be the best quantitative investment manager in the world—measured by the quality of our products, not their size. PDT’s very high employee-retention rate speaks for itself. Our people are intellectually extraordinary and our community is close-knit, down-to-earth, and diverse.  Responsibilities:   <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">Manage and improve our current-generation cloud platform, leveraging scripting and automation tools  </li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">Design and architect PDT’s next-generation public cloud platform  </li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1">Partner with engineering teams to understand their requirements and facilitate on-boarding of their applications onto PDT’s cloud platform  </li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1">Use DevOps and infrastructure as code methodologies to realize the cloud platform  </li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1">Work with on-prem systems engineers to seamlessly bridge on-prem Linux, storage, and network infrastructure with the cloud  </li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1">Coordinate changes to core public cloud infrastructure  </li> </ul> Below is a list of skills and experiences we think are relevant. Even if you don’t think you’re a perfect match, we still encourage you to apply because we are committed to developing our people <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1">2+ years of programming experience, including 2+ years of work with highly relevant public cloud technology. Systems engineering with a Linux focused is a plus. </li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1">Significant experience with cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS), including automation, configuration management, and CI/CD </li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1">Well-developed Python and bash programming skills  </li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1">Strong technical curiosity and passion for technology </li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1">Excellent planning skills  </li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1">Ownership mentality  </li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1">A customer-focused outlook  </li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1">Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field from a strong academic program.</li> </ul> The salary range for this role is between $195,000 and $225,000. This range is not inclusive of any potential bonus amounts.  Factors that may impact the agreed upon salary within the range for a particular candidate include years of experience, level of education obtained, skill set, and other external factors.  PRIVACY STATEMENT: For information on ways PDT may collect, use, and process your personal information, please see <a href="https://pdtpartners.com/legal-notices">PDT’s privacy notices</a>.

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