AWS Cloud Infrastructure and Compute Architect

QRT is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating across all liquid asset classes. We are a data- and technology-driven organization applying scientific methods to investing. Our collaborative culture and focus on innovation enable us to solve complex challenges and deliver high-quality returns for our investors.
The AWS Cloud Engineering Team provides a scalable, performant and best practice platform for QRT’s application and core teams to utilize in deploying cloud native services. This team is critical in ensuring that applications are built on a strong AWS foundation from the perspective of governance, security and connectivity.

Your future role at QRT:

We are hiring an experienced cloud architect, who has a deep knowledge in AWS infrastructure and compute services along with broad knowledge across the expansive suite of AWS services. The role will require close collaboration across QRT business and technology groups to provide cloud architecture advisory, design and implementation support on new and existing platforms, which lowers the burden of knowledge on development teams and accelerates the time to market of new applications, features and solutions.

You will enable the QRT Business Teams to scale through:

• Accelerating the time it takes to design and implement new business applications and features whilst assuring sound architectural fundamentals are in place:
  • Creation of re-usable and implementable architecture patterns and best practices, which advance the initial design and development phase of a project.
  • Identifying and solving common challenges which impact application and technology teams
• Fostering collaboration across QRT’s application and technology teams
• Guiding adoption and delivery within QRT business groups to translate business requirements into technical designs and support development teams in creating supportable solutions within the cloud
• Providing time-bound support to teams within QRT to create cloud architecture and deployment plans and help standardize cloud offerings delivery
• Interfacing with cloud providers to identify new services that can be beneficial and providing feedback to them on service changes and improvements that would benefit QRT

Your Present Skill Set:

• Extensive knowledge of infrastructure and compute solutions and their implementation in AWS, with demonstrable experience in designing and implementing well architected cloud solutions which support cloud hosted business applications.
• Knowledge of AWS core Infrastructure services (networking, security operations)
• Experience with AWS compute services and technologies, including (ECS, EKS, Kubernetes, EC2, Lambda):
• Ability to translate functional and non-functional requirements into well-rounded, secure, scalable solutions which meet the needs of the customer
• A demonstrable background in working at scale across a large cloud technology landscape, identifying, advising and defining best practice solutions for deploying and managing cloud native workloads.
• Good knowledge of one of more coding languages, such as Python.
• Experience in using an Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform.

QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we offer initiatives and programs to enable employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance.