Your Role
Are you an experienced cloud architect/developer who can assist in architecting, developing and re-engineering applications that can fully leverage the AWS Cloud? Do you like to work on a variety of game changing projects, at the forefront of application development and cloud technology adoption?
In order for applications to be cloud optimized they need to be architected correctly enabling them to reap the benefits of elasticity, horizontal scalability, automation and high availability. On the AWS platform services such as Amazon EC2, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon Elastic Container Services to name just a few, provide opportunities to design and build cloud ready applications.
We are looking for hands on architects/developers who are passionate about:
- Helping architect scalable, highly available application solutions that leverage AWS services
- Architecting and developing applications to be cloud optimized
- Working as a technical leader alongside the business, development and infrastructure teams.
- Providing deep software development knowledge with respect to cloud architecture, design patterns, and programming
- Advising and implementing AWS best practices
- Working as both an infrastructure and application development specialist
- Agile software development and DevOps
- Implementing DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration and automated deployment
Basic Qualifications
- BS level technical degree or equivalent experience; Computer Science or Engineering background preferred; Master’s Degree desired.
- 7+ years of an application programming and/or hands-on technical application architecture experience
- Extensive experience architecting, designing and programming applications in an AWS Cloud environment
- Experience configuring, deploying, monitoring and supporting Java and Python applications
- Understanding of packaging for python
- Understanding of build and release for java
- Understanding of web technologies (e.g. load balancers, http, ssl)
- Understanding and Experience leveraging GIT as source code control and part of a deployment pipeline
- Hands on programming skills in Java and Python
- Experience building sophisticated and highly automated infrastructure. Prior success in automating a real-world production environment.
- Experience with seamless/automated build pipelines used for release management across all environments.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.
- Experience with configuration management tools preferably Ansible
Preferred Qualifications
- Adept operating in a mixed Linux and Windows environment
- Hands on programming skills in any of the following: C#, C++, and Scala
- Agile software development expertise
- Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins & Bamboo)
- Hands on familiarity with CloudFormation and Terraform
- Understanding of service discovery software (zookeeper, consul) and distributed systems
- Experience with automated testing tools (ie. Selenium, JMeter).
- Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability
We believe that the next innovation to transform our business could come from anyone at AQR. Expect to be recognized not only for your diligence and hard work today, but for your vision for tomorrow. We are mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers and artists, passionate about advancing financial research and pushing the limits of today’s technology.
AQR is an Equal Opportunity Employer. EEO/VET/DISABILITY
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