Cloud Engineer

About the role

The Developer Services team at Millennium architects, engineers, and enhances developer toolchains and workflows for the firm. We collaborate closely with developers, quants, researchers, and front-office trading teams to ensure our platform provides a best-in-class development experience.

What You'll Do

• Design cloud-native architecture solutions grounded in the pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, and Cost Optimization
• Build CI/CD pipelines for reliable deployments
• Establish infrastructure-as-code practices that make our systems reproducible and auditable
• Work closely with software engineers to ensure our cloud platforms are secure, scalable, and operationally excellent
• Use AI and other automation to increase teams’ visibility into their cloud costs and migration onto strategic infrastructure
• Help teams understand risks and plan for proper business continuity
• Beyond immediate delivery, you'll help define platform infrastructure best practices that scale across the firm's broader cloud-native footprint

What You Bring

• Strong AWS expertise - VPC architecture, IAM, EC2, S3, ECS/EKS, networking, and data lake architectures
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including designing container architectures for multi-tenant workloads
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills, with Python and/or Bash for tooling and automation
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, plus GitOps workflows and CI/CD platforms (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• Proficiency with Observability tooling similar to Datadog/Prometheus/Grafana
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, with 3+ years (or a Master's degree with 2 years) in a cloud/infrastructure/DevOps engineering role
• Technical leadership - ability to drive architectural decisions and mentor others, with strong communication and problem-solving skills
• A desire to deliver cutting edge infrastructure in a fast-moving environment, with a commitment to staying current on cloud-native infrastructure, container security, and workload deployment

Pay

Salary Range: Millennium offers a total compensation package which includes a base salary, discretionary performance bonus, and comprehensive benefits. The estimated base salary range for this position is $175,000 to $250,000, which is specific to New York and may change in the future. When finalizing an offer, we take into consideration an individual's experience level and the qualifications they bring to the role to formulate a competitive total compensation package.