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- Compensation
- $200,000 – $250,000 USD
- City
- New York City
- Country
- United States
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VP, DevOps Engineering Lead (AWS)
Job Description
The DevOps / Platform Engineering role requires an experienced senior-level engineer with a proven track record of building scalable, highperformance cloud infrastructure and deployment systems.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate a passion for modern DevOps practices and be familiar with recent trends in cloud, containers, and automation. We're looking for someone who works well within a team but is fully capable of independently delivering solutions of significant scope and complexity. Excellent analytical skills and the ability to work quickly and effectively under time pressure are expected.
Equities Technology DevOps / Platform Engineer responsible for:
- Supporting a major initiative to migrate a legacy onprem 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 cloudbased 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
- Daytoday support and troubleshooting of platform infrastructure and deployment pipelines
Skills and experience required:
- 5 or more years of DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE experience in highintensity 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
- Handson experience with observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch)
- Strong proficiency with automation and InfrastructureasCode (Terraform or CloudFormation)
- Comfort working alongside teams developing in Java
- Linux/Unix OS experience
Strong pluses:
- Prior experience migrating onprem systems to AWS
- Experience supporting BI / analytics tooling or largescale reporting platforms
- Strong networking fundamentals and familiarity with messaging technologies (e.g., Kafka)
- Experience with inmemory datastores (Redis, Memcached)
- Financial services experience, particularly in equities, trading, or market data systems
- Working experience on Snowflake Platform
Primary Location Full Time Salary Range of $200,000 - $250,000.
About Us
Jefferies is a leading global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm that provides advisory, sales and trading, research, and wealth and asset management services. With more than 40 offices around the world, we offer insights and expertise to investors, companies, and governments.
At Jefferies, we are committed to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.
Jefferies is committed to creating and sustaining a workforce that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds to apply. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, pregnancy, age, medical condition, physical or mental disability, marital status, domestic partner status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.
The salary offered will take into consideration an individuals experience level and qualifications. In addition to salary, Jefferies Financial Group is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible, full-time employees or part-time employees, who are scheduled to work at least 30 hours or more per week, including an annual discretionary incentive and retention bonus, competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Jefferies also offers paid time off packages that include planned time off (e.g., vacation), unplanned time off (e.g., sick leave), and paid holidays, and for full-time employees, paid parental leave.
Job Info
- Job Identification 4273
- Job Category Information Technology
- Posting Date 05/08/2026, 07:50 PM
- Job Schedule Full time
- Locations 520 Madison Ave, New York, NY, 10022, US
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