At a Glance
- Tasks: Build and enhance a global AWS network for a leading hedge fund.
- Company: Join a tech-driven hedge fund with a collaborative culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy free meals, generous pension, bonuses, and private health.
- Other info: Dynamic workplace with excellent career growth and direct access to leadership.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a fast-paced trading environment with cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: 3+ years in cloud engineering, strong AWS and networking skills required.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
A leading systematic hedge fund is seeking an AWS Network Engineer to join its Cloud Engineering function, responsible for building and evolving the core AWS networking platform underpinning a large-scale global trading environment. This team plays a critical role in enabling cloud-native development across the business, ensuring applications are deployed onto a secure, scalable, and highly performant AWS foundation. The environment is heavily automation-driven, with strong emphasis on infrastructure-as-code, observability, governance, and engineering best practice. You’ll join a highly technical, collaborative team operating within a fast-paced trading environment, with significant opportunity to contribute to the evolution of the firm’s global cloud network architecture.
The Role
- Develop, manage, and enhance a complex global AWS network architecture supporting business-critical platforms
- Build and maintain scalable cloud connectivity solutions across a high-performance trading environment
- Utilise Infrastructure-as-Code practices to drive consistency, scalability, and operational efficiency
- Contribute to automated deployment pipelines and change management processes across the AWS estate
- Explore, evaluate, and onboard new AWS networking technologies and services as part of continuous platform improvement
- Improve network governance, monitoring, and observability capabilities across the cloud environment
- Ensure traffic flows and connectivity are observable and operationally effective
- Troubleshoot complex networking issues across AWS and third-party tooling
- Work closely with Security, Infrastructure, and End User teams to support ongoing platform growth and stability
Requirements
- 3+ years’ experience within a cloud engineering or cloud networking role, with strong AWS focus
- Strong networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, DHCP, HTTP, and IPv4 subnetting
- Hands‑on experience with core AWS networking services including VPC, Transit Gateway, Route53, PrivateLink, and Direct Connect
- Strong Infrastructure-as-Code and automation capability using tools such as Terraform and Python
- Proven ability to troubleshoot networking and connectivity issues across complex AWS environments
- Strong communication and collaboration skills within cross‑functional engineering teams
- Cloud WAN, Route53 Profiles, or AWS Lattice IPAM tooling such as AWS VPC IPAM or Infoblox
- AWS load balancing technologies including ALB, NLB, GWLB, and API Gateway
- Security tooling including WAF, Shield, and firewalls
- Logging and observability tooling including Flow Logs, CloudWatch, and OpenSearch
- IPv6 networking architectures within AWS environments
Company Highlights
- Technology‑led culture – drives both trading and internal engineering investment
- c.2,000 employees – large enough for scale, small enough for meaningful individual impact
- Brand‑new London HQ – core engineering and trading hub with free on‑site gym
- Flat structure – direct access to senior engineers and C‑level leadership
- Excellent Glassdoor ratings consistently quoting a strong work‑life balance
- Strong Benefits: Free breakfast & lunch, 13% pension, year‑one guaranteed bonus, allowance of work abroad days, private health, and more
AWS Network Engineer in London employer: Stanford Black Limited
Join a leading systematic trading firm in London, where you'll thrive in a technology-led culture that fosters innovation and collaboration. With a flat organisational structure and direct access to senior leadership, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact while working on challenging infrastructure projects. Enjoy exceptional benefits including free meals, a generous pension scheme, and a strong focus on work-life balance, all within a vibrant new HQ equipped with modern amenities.
