Ashford Benjamin Ltd. Hiring! Full Time INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORT ENGINEER in Hong Kong - Ricebowl

Our client, a top-tier systematic investment manager with a significant global footprint, is strengthening its core Cloud Operations team. This group is the engine room for a massive-scale AWS environment that supports groundbreaking quantitative research and live trading systems. We are looking for a pragmatic, automation-focused engineer who thrives on ensuring complex systems are resilient, efficient, and secure.

The Role in a Nutshell:

As an Infrastructure Support Engineer, you will be the go-to expert for the health and performance of our client’s cloud landscape. You won’t just respond to incidents; you’ll build the tools and automation to prevent them. This is a high-impact position that blends deep technical support with strategic engineering, offering direct visibility into how robust infrastructure drives business success.

Ensure the reliability, security, and cost-efficiency of a large-scale AWS environment, utilizing core services like EC2, S3, VPC, and IAM.

Troubleshoot and resolve sophisticated technical issues across the entire cloud stack, demonstrating an ability to diagnose problems with minimal context.

Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and Cloud Formation to enable reproducible and scalable cloud deployments.

Implement and manage comprehensive monitoring and alerting solutions to maintain system visibility and proactively address potential problems.

Collaborate directly with software development and quant teams to support their cloud-native applications and optimize resource utilization.

Administer and support a mixed environment of Linux and Windows systems within the cloud ecosystem.

Your Present Skillset:

You have substantial, hands-on experience supporting and troubleshooting mission-critical environments on AWS.

You are proficient in scripting with Python or Bash and have practical experience with infrastructure-as-code tools, particularly Terraform.

You possess strong foundational knowledge of both Linux and Windows operating systems.

You are a natural problem-solver with a systematic approach to diagnostics and a passion for automation.

You have excellent communication skills, allowing you to effectively collaborate with technical teams and clearly document solutions.

Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and configuration management tools (Ansible) is highly desirable.