About the role
About Caxton Associates: Caxton Associates, founded in 1983, is a global trading and investment firm with offices in London, New York, Singapore, Monaco, Dubai and Bengaluru. Caxton Associates’ primary business is to manage client and proprietary capital through a suite of products designed to fit the specific needs of investors. Employing a multi-portfolio manager framework, Caxton excels in discretionary global macro investing, leveraging its diversified expertise across asset classes and markets.
About this role: We are seeking a Senior AWS Engineer for our Bangalore office. The Senior 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.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, and CloudWatch and university degree in related domain. - 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. - Excellent communication skills. - Familiarity with AI tools like Codex, Claude etc. - Displays and operates at the highest degree of ethics and integrity.
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