Verition Fund Management LLC (“Verition”) is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008.  Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Global Credit, Global Convertible, Volatility & Capital Structure Arbitrage, Event-Driven Investing, Equity Long/Short & Capital Markets Trading, and Global Quantitative Trading.  We are looking for an experienced cloud engineer to work with our engineering team to develop, implement, optimize, and maintain cloud-based solutions. You will be responsible for deploying and debugging cloud stacks, educating teams on new cloud initiatives, and ensuring the security of the cloud infrastructure.

To be successful as a cloud engineer, you should be able to identify the most optimal cloud-based solutions and maintain cloud infrastructure in accordance with best practices and company security policies. A top-notch cloud engineer should have excellent troubleshooting skills, stay current with industry trends, and be a team player.  The right individual will proactively engage directly with traders and support cloud initiatives across the firm. 

Responsibilities:

• Managing cloud environments in accordance with best practices and company security guidelines.
• Deploying and debugging cloud initiatives as needed in accordance with best practices throughout the development lifecycle.
• Educating teams on the implementation of new cloud-based technologies and initiatives, providing associated training as required.
• Collaborating with engineering and development teams to evaluate and architect optimal cloud solutions.
• Regularly reviewing existing systems, making recommendations for improvements, and modifying them in collaboration with the system owners.
• Designing, developing and deploying modular cloud-based systems.
• Ensuring efficient functioning of data storage and processing functions in accordance with company security policies and best practices in cloud security.
• Identifying, analyzing, and resolving infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
• Interacting with traders and technology staff, providing cloud support, and making recommendations based on the firm’s needs.

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's or Technical degree in computer science or a related field
• 7+ years of experience working with AWS and a proven track record of building complex infrastructure on Linux (especially RHEL/CentOS)
• Sound experience in a scripting language (Bash, Python, Golang, etc.)
• Expert level knowledge with AWS design, architecture and services (VPC, EC2, IAM, S3 etc.) – professional and specialty level certifications are a plus
• Well-rounded knowledge of Cybersecurity, networking and related tools
• Sound experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, especially Ansible and Terraform
• Sound knowledge of server infrastructure, virtualization, and cloud computing
• Experience with architecting and maintaining high-availability production systems
• Experience in cloud-based software installation, configuration and patching
• Knowledge of system monitoring in a cloud environment including cloud-specific products and tools
• Experience with monitoring architecture and implementing monitoring agents, dashboards, escalations and alerts
• Strong interpersonal skills and excellent analytical skills