Cloud Engineer

About PDT Partners

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.

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.

Role Overview

We’re looking for a Cloud Engineer, with a passion for public cloud, automation, and configuration management to join our world-class team. 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.

Responsibilities

• Manage and improve our current-generation cloud platform, leveraging scripting and automation tools
• Design and architect PDT’s next-generation public cloud platform
• Partner with engineering teams to understand their requirements and facilitate on-boarding of their applications onto PDT’s cloud platform
• Use DevOps and infrastructure as code methodologies to realize the cloud platform
• Work with on-prem systems engineers to seamlessly bridge on-prem Linux, storage, and network infrastructure with the cloud
• Coordinate changes to core public cloud infrastructure

Qualifications

• 2+ years of programming experience, including 2+ years of work with highly relevant public cloud technology. Systems engineering with a Linux focus is a plus.
• Significant experience with cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS), including automation, configuration management, and CI/CD
• Well-developed Python and bash programming skills
• Strong technical curiosity and passion for technology
• Excellent planning skills
• Ownership mentality
• A customer-focused outlook
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field from a strong academic program.

We encourage you to apply even if you don’t think you’re a perfect match, as we are committed to developing our people.

Compensation

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.

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