Acadian Asset Management LLC is a Boston-headquartered investment management firm with wholly owned affiliates located in Singapore, London, and Sydney. As of December 31, 2023, the firm managed approximately US$103 billion on behalf of major pension funds, endowments, foundations, governments and other investors based in the U.S. and abroad.

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 is a contributing role within the Platform team responsible for cloud architecture, automation, and delivery. You will join a cross-functional team of engineers and help define the architectural direction of the firm, build services, and provide mentorship not only within your team, but also across the organization. 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 tooling that advance our cloud capabilities using AWS services like EKS, ECS, EC2, Lambda, and ParallelCluster
• Work closely with our partners at AWS to leverage architecture and support services
• Review, comment, and approve pull/merge requests
• Remain committed to automation of the entire software delivery lifecycle
• Contribute to the principles that guide technology decisions for Acadian; work to help define cloud strategy
• Analyze the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement
• Consult on infrastructure projects to fit systems or infrastructure to the technical architecture and the needs of the end user community
• 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; at least 7 years of prior experience, financial services exposure is a plus
• Proven record of building scalable and durable services in AWS
• Knowledge of migration strategies for legacy workloads to AWS
• Expert knowledge of common patterns and software architecture
• Experience developing services/libraries across multiple languages. Experience with Python, TypeScript, Go, or C# is relevant to our current stack
• Experience with IaC and k8s configuration management tools like Terraform, helm, and kustomize. CDK experience a plus
• Demonstrated expertise with Linux and Docker; Familiarity with scripting in POSIX sh
• Structured approach to troubleshooting; Practical experience with networking
• Self-motivated with critical attention to detail and a focus on customer service