Senior Engineer , Platform, Cloud

Position: Senior Engineer I, Platform, Cloud
Acadian Asset Management is a global, systematic investment manager at the forefront of data-driven investing since 1986. Headquartered in Boston, with locations in Singapore, London, and Sydney, we manage over $232 billion on behalf of leading institutions worldwide—including pension funds, endowments, foundations, and sovereign wealth funds. We harness advanced technology, rich datasets, and multidisciplinary expertise to help clients navigate complex markets and uncover insights that may be overlooked by traditional approaches.

What sets Acadian apart is our people. We foster a collaborative, intellectually curious environment where ideas are tested, diverse perspectives are welcomed, and innovation thrives. We’re united by a shared purpose: delivering effective client outcomes and supporting one another in work that’s both challenging and rewarding. We offer a flexible hybrid work environment, strong benefits, and a casual but focused office culture—all designed to support the meaningful, collaborative work that defines Acadian.

Position Overview:

The Platform team is responsible for building and supporting services that enable our development teams to leverage frameworks, tooling, and services across in-house and vendor PaaS/IaaS offerings. Platform defines the architectural roadmap, best practices, and provides education on these services. This position will work on a cross-functional team that is responsible for implementation and maintenance of our investment infrastructure, focusing on building reusable application templates, patterns of delivery, and operational support of our systems running in AWS and Kubernetes.

You will partner with development teams in the Investment group and peers in Platform to improve how we operate our applications. Platform's goal is to enable our fellow product focused teams to deliver solutions faster through automation and engineering.

Acadian supports a hybrid work environment; employees are on-site in the Boston office 3 days a week.

What You’ll Do:

Pair with your team members to build out services and tools that advance our cloud capabilities using AWS services like EKS, ECS, EC2, Lambda, Bedrock, and Parallel Computing Service (PCS)
Build and extend reusable infrastructure-as-code components — Terraform, CDK8s, Crossplane, etc — so product teams get secure, well-instrumented defaults out of the box Operate and improve our Git Ops delivery model on Kubernetes using ArgoCD, Helm, and Kustomize, and extend the cluster platform with Crossplane and EKS add-onsUse AI-assisted development tooling in your daily work and help build the automation and guardrails that make it safe and repeatable for other teams

Support the infrastructure behind our AI and quantitative research workloads, including Bedrock-hosted models and HPC compute

Drive automation of the entire software delivery lifecycle in Git Lab CI, including testing and policy checks for infrastructure code Ensure observability and availability of the investment systems using Open Telemetry, New Relic, and Cloud Watch, and help define meaningful service-level objectives

Build security in by default — secrets managed through Vault and Secrets Manager, least-privilege IAM, and container and dependency scanning in the pipeline

Help keep cloud spend efficient through right-sizing, autoscaling, and cost visibility

Review, comment, and approve pull/merge requests

Proactively improve and modernize our tech stack

Troubleshoot and resolve operational issues

Contribute to runbooks, documentation, and team knowledge sharing

Rotate through an on-call schedule with your team members to provide after-hours support when needed

We're Looking for Teammates With:

BS in Computer Science or related field preferred with at…