We are looking for a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with deep AWS expertise to design, build, and scale a trading firm’s cloud environment. This role is critical in ensuring their infrastructure is secure, highly available, and performant to support real-time, high-throughput systems.
The ideal candidate has experience architecting AWS solutions from the ground up, preferably in fast-moving environments like tech startups or high-growth companies. You should be comfortable working with modern cloud-native tooling, automation, and infrastructure-as-code to drive reliability and efficiency.
Key Responsibilities:
• Design, deploy, and optimize AWS infrastructure (EC2, EKS, RDS, VPC, IAM, Lambda, etc.) using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Build and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant systems that handle high transaction volumes with low latency.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting (CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, etc.) to ensure system reliability.
• Automate deployment, scaling, and recovery processes to minimize manual intervention.
• Strengthen security posture through proper IAM policies, network controls, and compliance best practices.
• Optimize database performance (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar) and manage backups/DR strategies.
• Troubleshoot production issues, participate in on-call rotation, and drive incident resolution.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to align infrastructure with application needs.
Must-Have Qualifications:
– 5+ years of hands-on AWS experience – You’ve architected and implemented AWS environments (not just maintained them).
– Strong IaC skills – Terraform (preferred) or CloudFormation.
– Containerization & orchestration – Docker, Kubernetes (EKS).
– Observability & monitoring – CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.
– Networking & security – VPC, security groups, IAM, least-privilege access.
– Scripting/automation – Bash, Python, or similar.
– Production incident management – On-call experience, troubleshooting under pressure.
Nice-to-Have (Bonus Skills):
– Experience in startups or fast-scaling tech companies – You’ve built AWS infra from scratch or optimized for rapid growth.
– AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, etc.).
– CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD).
– High-performance systems – Low-latency, high-throughput environments (fintech, trading, gaming, etc.).
– Multi-region/global AWS deployments.
Get in touch with Bianca Lo – bianca.lo@ashford-benjamin.com
To apply for this job email your details to bianca.lo@ashford-benjamin.com