VP, Cloud Engineer - Equities Technology

DevOps / Platform Engineer – Equities Technology

The DevOps / Platform Engineering role requires an experienced senior-level engineer with a proven track record of building scalable, high‑performance cloud infrastructure and deployment systems.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate a passion for modern DevOps practices and be familiar with recent trends in cloud, containers, and automation. We're looking for someone who works well within a team but is fully capable of independently delivering solutions of significant scope and complexity. Excellent analytical skills and the ability to work quickly and effectively under time pressure are expected.

 

Equities Technology DevOps / Platform Engineer responsible for:

• Supporting a major initiative to migrate a legacy on‑prem equities system to AWS
• Designing, building, and maintaining cloud infrastructure, including compute, networking, IAM, and data services
• Developing CI/CD pipelines to support automated build, test, and deployment workflows
• Containerizing applications and managing Kubernetes (EKS) clusters and Docker image pipelines
• Implementing ETL infrastructure and data movement workflows to support the cloud migration
• Building foundational systems for future BI tooling on top of cloud‑based databases
• Implementing and maintaining observability tooling (monitoring, logging, alerting) to ensure system reliability
• Partnering closely with Java development teams to enhance deployment performance and cloud readiness
• Day‑to‑day support and troubleshooting of platform infrastructure and deployment pipelines

 

Skills and experience required:

• 5 or more years of DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE experience in high‑intensity production environments
• Strong expertise with AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, CloudWatch, etc.)
• Deep experience with Kubernetes (EKS) and Docker
• Strong CI/CD pipeline experience (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.)
• Experience building or supporting ETL pipelines, data orchestration, or cloud data movement workflows
• Hands‑on experience with observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch)
• Strong proficiency with automation and Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform or CloudFormation)
• Comfort working alongside teams developing in Java
• Linux/Unix OS experience

 

Strong pluses:

• Prior experience migrating on‑prem systems to AWS
• Experience supporting BI / analytics tooling or large‑scale reporting platforms
• Strong networking fundamentals and familiarity with messaging technologies (e.g., Kafka)
• Experience with in‑memory datastores (Redis, Memcached)
• Financial services experience, particularly in equities, trading, or market data systems
• Working experience on Snowflake Platform

 

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range of $200,000 - $250,000. 

Jefferies is a leading global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm that provides advisory, sales and trading, research, and wealth and asset management services. With more than 40 offices around the world, we offer insights and expertise to investors, companies, and governments.

At Jefferies, we are committed to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.

Jefferies is committed to creating and sustaining a workforce that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds to apply. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, pregnancy, age, medical condition, physical or mental disability, marital status, domestic partner status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.