- Company Name
- Quant Capital
- Job Title
- Lead Infrastructure Engineer
- Job Description
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**Job Title:** Lead Infrastructure Engineer
**Role Summary:**
Senior technical leader responsible for the design, migration, and operation of a low‑latency trading platform across cloud (AWS) and on‑premises environments. Owns infrastructure strategy, delivery, and scale, leading a small high‑performing DevOps team and partnering with engineering, trading, and risk functions.
**Expectations:**
- Drive end‑to‑end AWS migration and modernization initiatives.
- Build and maintain greenfield trading and research environments.
- Ensure highly available, low‑latency global infrastructure.
- Lead network security, segmentation, and access control strategy.
- Automate provisioning, deployment, and observability using IaC.
- Optimize cost and reliability at scale.
**Key Responsibilities:**
- Architect and evolve hybrid (cloud + on‑prem) infrastructure for trading workloads.
- Own and manage AWS services (VPC, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, CloudFormation, ECS/EKS, S3).
- Maintain Microsoft services, Active Directory, and identity solutions (Entra ID).
- Engineer secure, low‑latency connectivity across firewalls, routing, MPLS, BGP, OSPF, SD‑WAN.
- Implement network security policies, firewalls (Cisco ASA, Fortinet), and segmentation.
- Lead the provisioning and deployment pipeline using IaC tools (CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible).
- Operate CI/CD workflows (GitLab CI or similar).
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize system performance (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana).
- Scale monitoring, capacity, and cost‑optimisation measures.
- Grow and mentor a senior infrastructure/DevOps team.
- Collaborate closely with trading, risk, and engineering stakeholders.
**Required Skills:**
- 8+ years of infrastructure experience, 3+ years in leadership within trading or high‑performance environments.
- Deep AWS architecture expertise (VPC, IAM, EC2/ECS/EKS, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway).
- Hybrid on‑prem/cloud operations proficiency.
- Strong networking foundation (routing, switching, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VLANs, VPNs, SD‑WAN).
- Microsoft services and Windows Server administration, Active Directory/Entra ID.
- Linux administration.
- IaC & automation (CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible).
- CI/CD pipeline management (GitLab CI or equivalent).
- Scripting (Python, Bash).
- Observability and monitoring (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana).
- Knowledge of security tools (firewalls, IDS/IPS).
**Required Education & Certifications:**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or equivalent architectural certification.
- Relevant networking certification (CCNP/CCIE, or equivalent).
- Experience with AD/Entra ID security best practices (optional).