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.