Software Engineer II; AWS Infrastructure

Position: Software Engineer II (AWS Infrastructure)
Our client is a leading global investment bank.

JOB DESCRIPTION Join a team that is redefining what's possible in cloud infrastructure engineering — where your contributions directly shape the technology powering global fixed income markets. Here, you'll work alongside talented engineers and product owners in a collaborative, growth-oriented environment that values curiosity, inclusion, and technical excellence. This is an exciting opportunity to build your skills in cloud-native infrastructure at scale, contribute to cutting-edge financial technology, and grow across both infrastructure and application development.

If you're passionate about building resilient systems and want your work to have real-world impact, this is the role for you. As a Software Engineer II at our client within the Global Technology team, you will be a key contributor on the infrastructure side of the team, supporting the cloud infrastructure that underpins Portfolio Management capabilities for the Fixed Income business.

You will help build, manage, and support the AWS infrastructure for various portfolio management services — including what-if analysis, order sizing, automated pre-trade compliance checks, and order submission — ensuring these systems are reliable, scalable, and production-ready. You will be part of a cross-functional team of engineers and product owners building the Spectrum Portfolio Management Fixed Income product, working primarily on a large, Terraform-driven estate on AWS, with the opportunity to grow into server-side development in Java (Spring Boot) and Kotlin over time.

Job responsibilities Build and maintain scalable, resilient AWS infrastructure using Terraform as modular, single-purpose stacks, supporting core services such as EKS, RDS (including Oracle), Elasti Cache, S3, EFS, Amazon MSK (managed Kafka), KMS, Secrets Manager, Event Bridge, SNS, Cloud Watch, and Lambda Support Amazon EKS lifecycle operations, including cluster version upgrades, node group and add-on updates, and remediation with minimal disruption to production workloads Monitor and support the health of the AWS estate, including triage, root-cause analysis, remediation, and participation in incident and problem management processes Contribute to the build and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins) that apply infrastructure changes safely and reliably Instrument the estate for observability using tools such as Datadog, Cloud Watch, and Dynatrace, and use telemetry insights to support improvements to infrastructure hygiene Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate design comprehension and coding support (e.g., drafting unit tests and documentation), validating outputs and handling data according to sensitivity and security requirements Contribute to server-side development on the Spectrum Portfolio Management Fixed Income product (Java and/or Kotlin, Spring Boot) as your skills expand Support a team culture of diversity, inclusion, opportunity, and respect Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and expanding applied experience Foundational, hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform — writing, structuring, and maintaining stacks to provision and manage cloud resources Working knowledge of core AWS services including EC2/networking (VPC), IAM, RDS, S3, KMS, Secrets Manager, and Cloud Watch Foundational experience with Amazon EKS and Kubernetes, including deploying workloads and supporting cluster operations Practical experience working with cloud infrastructure on AWS in a production or near-production environment Familiarity with production readiness practices…