We’re looking for a Cloud Engineer, with a passion for public cloud, automation, and configuration management to join our world-class team. 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.
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
Why join us?
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.
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
Below is a list of skills and experiences we think are relevant. Even if you don’t think you’re a perfect match, we still encourage you to apply because we are committed to developing our people
- 2+ years of programming experience, including 2+ years of work with highly relevant public cloud technology. Systems engineering with a Linux focused 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.
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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What We Do
PDT, which stands for Process Driven Trading, was founded by Peter Muller in 1993 as a proprietary trading group within Morgan Stanley. In 2013, after establishing a 19-year track record finding inefficiencies in financial markets, the group spun out of Morgan Stanley to become an independent investment management firm, PDT Partners.
Today we are a leader in the field of quantitative finance, known for our rigorous scientific, systematic, and model-driven approach to investing, with multiple billions in assets under management.
Peter Muller, Founder and CEO, and a small group of managing partners lead around 200 scientists, engineers, and professionals in New York and London.
