AWS Engineer
Role Title: AWS Engineer (Systems and Infrastructure Team)
Department: Technology
Location: Bangalore
About Caxton Associates:
Caxton Associates, founded in 1983, is a global trading and investment firm with offices in New York, London, Singapore, Monaco and Dubai. Our primary business is to manage client and proprietary capital through global macro hedge fund strategies. As part of our continued growth, we are establishing a new office in Bangalore, India. This office will play a critical role in supporting our trading, research, and operations globally.
About the role:
We are seeking an AWS Engineer for our Bangalore office. The AWS Engineer will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing our global cloud infrastructure, with a focus on automation, security, and performance optimization. The role involves supporting existing AWS environments, assisting in cloud migrations, and collaborating with multiple teams across Caxton.
The successful candidate will play a key role in the Systems and Infrastructure team, contributing to the operational efficiency, reliability, and security of our AWS infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- Designing robust, scalable, and secure cloud-based solutions using AWS services.
- Manage, monitor, and optimize AWS infrastructure across multiple global environments.
- Select the appropriate AWS services to meet the firm’s requirements and business goals.
- Deploy and maintain EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and related AWS services.
- Support hybrid integrations between AWS and on-premises systems.
- Implement and manage security policies and IAM roles to ensure infrastructure security.
- Collaborate with software development teams on CI/CD pipelines and cloud tools.
- Assist with incident response and performance troubleshooting.
- Staying updated with the latest AWS features and services, cloud computing technologies, and best practices.
- Work closely with teams across the firm to ensure cloud solutions align with company policies, technical requirements, and business objectives.
Experience:
- 5+ years of experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, and CloudWatch.
- Knowledge of networking, IAM, VPC, and security best practices.
- Proven ability to design and implement AWS solutions based on business requirements and best practices.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation, and infrastructure as code (IaC), using tools like GitLab and Terraform.
- Knowledge of AWS database services (RDS) and storage solutions (S3, EBS, EFS).
- Familiarity with monitoring tools (e.g. CloudWatch).
- Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Powershell) and understanding of programming concepts to automate cloud operations and deployments.
- Ability to optimize applications and services for performance and cost efficiency in AWS.
- Strong analytical capability and excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- AWS Associate-level certification (SysOps or Solutions Architect) preferred.
- A commitment to continuous learning and staying updated with the latest technologies and AWS services.
- Displays and operates at the highest degree of ethics and integrity.