Cloud Engineer (AWS / Kubernetes) Elite Global Quant Fund - J12646

The Company & The Team

Pinpoint Asia is partnering with one of the world’s leading global quantitative and systematic investment managers. Operating across all liquid asset classes globally, our client uses a highly scientific, data-driven approach to investing.

We are currently seeking a highly skilled, hands-on Cloud Engineer to join their specialized Cloud Service & Tools team. This is a pure engineering and execution role—we are looking for a "doer," not an architect. You will be the boots-on-the-ground technologist responsible for deploying, maintaining, and supporting the mission-critical internal tools and distributed infrastructure that power the firm's trading and research globally.

The Role This role requires a practitioner who lives in the command line and thrives in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment. You will be heavily involved in AWS administration, managing Kubernetes clusters, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines to ensure zero-downtime reliability for researchers and quantitative traders.

What You Will Do:

• Container Orchestration: Manage and scale robust Kubernetes environments (EKS) and container technologies (Docker, Podman).
• Infrastructure as Code: Heavily utilize Terraform and Ansible for automated configuration and infrastructure provisioning.
• Pipeline Management: Develop, optimize, and troubleshoot complex CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab CI is heavily utilized).
• AWS Administration: Hands-on configuration and management of core AWS services (VPC security/networking, EC2 scaling, IAM, and storage including S3, EFS, EBS, FSx).
• Observability: Monitor and support distributed production systems using tools like Cloudwatch, Coralogix, or OpenTelemetry.
• OS Management: Deep Linux OS administration, specifically RHEL/Rocky 9.

What You Need to Succeed:

• Proven, highly hands-on experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or SRE, ideally within a robust, demanding environment (e.g., trading, fintech, or massive-scale tech).
• Deep expertise in AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), and Terraform/Ansible.
• Strong experience building and debugging CI/CD pipelines.
• Impeccable spoken and written English. You must be an effective communicator capable of describing complex technical issues to highly demanding, non-infrastructure audiences (quants, researchers, traders).
• A collaborative, egoless mindset—happy to mentor colleagues, eager to learn, and capable of working autonomously amid changing priorities.

Bonus Points If You Have:

• Experience administering specific data/cloud tools: Snowflake, Clickhouse Cloud, or Spacelift.
• Experience managing Gitlab on-premises.
• Scripting/Programming capabilities in Python, C#, or Rust.

Global Talent Welcome: This role can be based in Hong Kong (strongly preferred) or Singapore. Our client is highly open to sponsoring visas and relocating top-tier 1% engineering talent from overseas who are eager to test their skills in a premier quantitative trading environment.

If this outstanding opportunity sounds like your next career move, please submit through "Apply Now" or send your resume in Word format to Sedrick Chan at [email protected] and put Cloud Engineer (AWS / Kubernetes) – Elite Global Quant Fund - J12646 in the subject header.

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Headquartered in Hong Kong, Pinpoint Asia is the go-to Specialist Firm for Technology Recruitment

We are a team of specialist tech recruiters (many of our recruiters come from an IT background) and we serve a wide range of clients, all the way from tech startups (especially FinTech) to some of the top Financial Institutions on Wall Street and several other large scale enterprises in other industries.

Our significant market reputation and status as the leading search firm for many of our clients is a direct result of our strong industry relationships, intimate understanding of the marketplace and proven ability to deliver results.

Our vision isto help companies hire smarter and help job seekers get closer to their career aspirations.

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