Cloud Engineer

About the position

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.

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

Requirements

• 2-6 years of programming experience, including 2+ years of work with highly relevant public cloud technology
• 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

Nice-to-haves

• Systems engineering with a Linux focus