Jefferies · 6 hours ago
VP, Cloud Engineer - Equities Technology
520 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10022, US
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$200K/yr - $250K/yr
5+ years expJefferies is a leading global investment banking and capital markets firm that provides a range of financial services. They are seeking a senior-level DevOps / Platform Engineer to build scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment systems, supporting the migration of legacy systems to AWS and enhancing deployment performance for Java development teams.
BankingFinancial ServicesWealth Management
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
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
Preferred
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
Benefits
Medical, dental & vision coverage
401(k)
Life, accident, and disability insurance
Wellness programs
Paid time off packages that include planned time off (e.g., vacation), unplanned time off (e.g., sick leave), and paid holidays
Paid parental leave
Company
Jefferies
Jefferies provides research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Jefferies has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (147)
2024 (122)
2023 (83)
2022 (183)
2021 (169)
2020 (60)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2012-11-12Acquired
Leadership Team
Cameron Lester
Managing Director, Global Co-head of Tech Investment Banking
David Windley
Managing Director
Recent News
2026-01-21
2026-01-18
Company data provided by crunchbase