Cloud Engineer - AWS Specialist - Selby Jennings

eFinancialCareers
London, United Kingdom
3 days ago
Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
On-site
Seniority
Mid
Education
Degree
Posted
1 Jun 2026 (3 days ago)

AWS Cloud Engineer | Paris

A globally renowned hedge fund is building the next generation of cloud-native infrastructure to power cutting-edge trading and research platforms and they're looking for a talented cloud engineer to be part of the journey. As a cloud engineer, you will play a pivotal role in engineering, scaling, and operating highly sophisticated AWS environments that drive real-time, high-performance systems. You'll join a collaborative team of elite engineers, where every cloud engineer contributes to building secure, resilient, and ultra-scalable platforms powered by AWS and Kubernetes.

This is an exciting opportunity for a cloud engineer to work on complex distributed systems, designing and optimising infrastructure that supports large-scale compute workloads in a fast-paced, high-impact environment. You'll be solving challenging technical problems while shaping the future of cloud-native platforms within a world-class engineering team.The ideal cloud engineer will bring strong AWS engineering experience alongside deep Kubernetes expertise (essential). This role is perfect for a cloud engineer who is passionate about infrastructure, platform engineering, and pushing the boundaries of modern cloud technologies.



Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintainscalable AWS cloud infrastructure for production workloads
  • Architect and manageKubernetes (EKS) environments for high-performance compute and orchestration
  • Implement and optimisecloud-native solutions focused on reliability, scalability, and performance
  • Own infrastructure automation usingInfrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
  • Ensure high availability, monitoring, and observability across cloud platforms
  • Drive best practices incloud security, access control, and governance
  • Partner with engineering teams to deliver efficient and robust infrastructure solutions


Key Skills

  • 4+ years experience as a Cloud Engineer / Platform Engineer / DevOps Engineer
  • Strong hands-on experience withAWS (EKS, EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, RDS)
  • Kubernetes expertise - mandatory (design, deployment, scaling, troubleshooting)
  • Experience withcontainerisation (Docker) and orchestration at scale
  • Proven experience withInfrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
  • Strong understanding ofcloud networking, security, and system reliability
  • Experience operatingproduction-grade cloud environments


Nice to Have

  • Experience inhigh-performance or low-latency environments
  • Exposure tofinancial services, trading systems, or large-scale compute platforms

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