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Position: Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer (Full-Time, Permanent)
Level: Mid-Level
Location: Brickell Key, Miami, FL Hybrid (some on-site required; proposed 3 4 days/week, exact cadence depending on need)
Compensation: $ Competitive Salary bonuses benefits
Reports to: Head of IT Operations (located in Europe)
Job Number: 7380
About the Role
An international financial trading company with Brickell Key location is hiring a Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer to own and automate their AWS environment while maintaining strong Linux systems fundamentals. This is not an IT support role with cloud exposure we re looking for a genuinely hands-on infrastructure engineer who thinks in automation first, with the systems depth to troubleshoot anything underneath it.
Because our US-based team operates out of a single Miami office, this role also serves as our local technical point of contact for the occasional issue that requires physical presence a switch, a network drop, a workstation. That is a small part of the job and not its center of gravity.
What You ll Do
- Cloud infrastructure & automation (~70%): Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform and/or Ansible). Own provisioning, scaling, and automation of cloud resources across compute, networking, storage, and IAM.
- Linux & infrastructure operations (~25%): Administer and harden Linux systems, manage configuration and patching, support core infrastructure services, and troubleshoot at the OS and network layer.
- Local IT & networking (~5%): Provide hands-on support for on-site infrastructure needs network switches, cabling, workstation setup when physical intervention is required at the Brickell Key office.
What We re Looking For
- Proven, hands-on AWS experience (compute, VPC/networking, IAM, storage) not certification-only exposure
- Working proficiency with Terraform and/or Ansible in a production environment
- Strong Linux administration background (systems you can actually operate and fix, not just deploy)
- Solid networking fundamentals (routing, switching, DNS, firewalls)
- Broad, self-directed troubleshooting ability across cloud and on-prem layers
- A career progression that shows either: (a) systems/Linux administration and cloud engineering, or (b) cloud/DevOps engineering that has retained real underlying systems knowledge
- Comfortable working on-site regularly in Miami and available for occasional physical infrastructure work
Nice to Have
- Experience in a financial services, trading, or other latency-/uptime-sensitive environment
- Scripting ability (Python, Bash) beyond IaC tooling
- Exposure to monitoring/observability stacks (CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, etc.)
- Security fundamentals IAM policy design, VPC segmentation, encryption at rest/in transit
Work Location & Schedule
This is a hybrid role based in Miami. The successful candidate must live in the South Florida area and be available for regular on-site work at our Brickell Key office, including on short notice when local hardware or network issues require hands-on intervention.
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