Junior AWS Platform Engineer - Quant Hedge Fund (London / Hybrid)

Job description

Junior AWS Platform Engineer with 1-3 years of experience sought to join a leading Quant Hedge Fund, famed for their friendly and supportive culture.

The firm are looking for an AWS-focused Platform Engineer to assist with their ongoing Cloud adoption and to collaborate directly with Quant Research and QD/Software teams, providing expertise and guidance in infrastructure usage. The opportunity would suit someone with a combination of strong development and operational skills across AWS, Terraform and Scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell…) as well as commercial Linux and Docker experience.

Responsibilities:

Your key tasks will be to facilitate the wider adoption of AWS technologies and modern infrastructure patterns within the wider business. Example projects include:

• Supporting and developing firmwide usage of Infrastructure-as-Code utilities, with a particular focus on enabling teams to manage their own application stacks.
• Enhancing our CI/CD capabilities (CI, testing, deployments).
• Working with the other teams to enable and support their usage of AWS technologies, with a particular focus on the Research and Development areas.
• Help drive migration away from legacy infrastructure.

Technologies:

• AWS: Compute (EC2, ECS & EKS)

1. Storage (S3, EBS, EFS & FSX)
2. Security (IAM & SAML, Config, CloudTrail)
3. Automation (EventBridge, Lambda)
4. Logging & Monitoring (OpenSearch, CloudWatch, AMP, AMG)
5. Managed Services (MWAA, MSK, Kinesis)

• Terraform & Terraform Cloud
• Scripting and automation (Bash, Python & PowerShell)
• Additional Hashicorp tools (Vault & Packer)
• CI/CD solutions (Jenkins, TeamCity, Argo)

Your experience :

• 1-3 years in a similar role (previous finance experience is not necessary).
• Solid knowledge of AWS technologies, particularly container, serverless, automation and security.
• Hands on experience designing and building testing & deployment pipelines.
• Good working knowledge of Linux and docker.
• Strong scripting abilities.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a well-established Quant Hedge Fund with an excellent friendly culture and work/life balance (three days per week onsite). Please apply or contact Adam@winston-fox.co.uk for more information.

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

London Area

Type of Contract

Full Time Jobs

Published at

06-05-2026

Profession type

ICT

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English