Infrastructure Engineer | DevOps | AWS | Python | Trading | Finance | New York | IaC | Observability
Role: Infrastructure Engineer
Base Salary: $140,000 - $180,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Location: Midtown Manhattan, NY
A rapidly growing and newly founded arm of a global trading and investment firm is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to join its US business. Following the successful expansion of its international trading operations, the firm is investing heavily in its New York platform and is looking for its first dedicated Infrastructure Engineer to take ownership of a critical infrastructure estate supporting front-office trading activity.
This is a unique opportunity to join a lean, high-performing team where you will work directly with senior technology leadership, quantitative researchers, traders, risk, and compliance professionals, helping to design and scale the infrastructure that underpins a live trading environment.
The Opportunity
As the firm's first dedicated infrastructure hire in the US, you'll play a key role in shaping and automating a modern AWS and hybrid infrastructure environment. This is not a maintenance-focused position. You'll be responsible for building, improving, and scaling systems from the ground up, ensuring security, performance, and reliability across mission-critical trading operations where technology directly impacts business performance.
The successful candidate will thrive in a hands-on environment, enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges, and bring an automation-first mindset.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and support AWS and hybrid cloud infrastructure
- Build and maintain infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code
- Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions
- Manage networking, connectivity, and security across cloud and on-prem environments
- Automate operational processes through scripting and tooling
- Partner closely with trading, quantitative research, risk, and compliance teams
- Drive infrastructure reliability, scalability, and operational excellence
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong background in Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering
- Experience within trading, capital markets, hedge funds, fintech, or broader financial services environments preferred
- Deep AWS expertise across architecture, deployment, and operations
- Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using CloudFormation and Ansible
- CI/CD pipeline experience, ideally with GitLab CI
- Monitoring and observability experience with Grafana, Prometheus, and CloudWatch
- Strong automation and scripting skills using Python and/or Bash
- Excellent networking fundamentals, including:
- VLANs
- VPNs
- Routing & Switching
- Firewall Policies
Experience with:
- Palo Alto Firewalls
- Active Directory
- Hybrid cloud/on-prem infrastructure
- AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, Direct Connect, and Transit Gateway
- Strong preference for engineers who automate rather than manually administer environments
- Exposure to AI-assisted development tools is advantageous
Why Join?
- Opportunity to become the first dedicated Infrastructure Engineer within the US business
- Significant ownership, autonomy, and influence over technical direction
- Direct access to senior leadership and front-office stakeholders
- Build greenfield infrastructure rather than maintain legacy systems
- Join a growing trading platform during a key expansion phase
- Small, collaborative, high-impact engineering environment
Compensation & Benefits
- Base Salary: $140,000 - $180,000
- Annual Bonus: Approximately 20% discretionary bonus
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Medical, Dental & Vision coverage with no deductible
- Midtown Manhattan location
- 5 days onsite, with flexibility available once established in the role
Interview Process
- Introductory call with the CTO
- Technical and business-focused interview with senior trading leadership
- Final onsite interview including:
- Technical infrastructure scenario exercise
- Team meetings and technical discussions
- Opportunity to meet key stakeholders across the business
This is an outstanding opportunity for an Infrastructure Engineer who enjoys building highly reliable, automated platforms in a fast-paced trading environment and wants the chance to make a genuine impact within a growing global business.
