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, 2024, the firm managed approximately US$117 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 position will work on a cross-functional team that is responsible for implementation and maintenance of our investment infrastructure, focusing on building reusable application templates, patterns of delivery, and operational support of our systems running in AWS and Kubernetes. You will partner with development teams in the Investment group and peers in Platform to guide how we operate our applications. 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
- Drive automation of the entire software delivery lifecycle
- Proactively improve and modernize our tech stack
- Ensure observability and availability of the investment systems
- Troubleshoot and resolve operational issues
- Mentor junior members of the team
- Rotate through an on-call schedule with your team members to provide afterhours support when needed
We’re Looking for Teammates With:
- BS in Computer Science or related field preferred with at least 5 years of prior experience (Financial services exposure is a plus)
- Proven record of building scalable and durable services in AWS
- Knowledge of observability platforms such as OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, New Relic, Prometheus
- Knowledge of migration strategies for legacy workloads to AWS
- Knowledge of common patterns and software architecture
- Familiarity with scripting in Bash/POSIX Shell
- Experience developing services/libraries across multiple languages (Python, TypeScript, Go, and C# are relevant to our current stack)
- Experience with Terraform, Helm, and Kustomize (CDK experience is a plus)
- Demonstrated expertise with Linux and Kubernetes
- Structured approach to troubleshooting
- Practical experience with networking and storage
Why Work Here:
Acadian is a quantitative investment firm where ideas are empowered by technology. Our team is made up of a diverse mix of professionals who thrive in a culture that fosters ingenuity through collaboration and transparency. We offer a casual office environment, top-notch benefits, and excellent professional and personal development opportunities.
To apply for this position or view Acadian’s open roles, please visit the Careers section of our website at: http://www.acadian-asset.com/careers/Job-opportunities. We will contact only selected candidates. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at [email protected].
Acadian Asset Management LLC is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants. No employee or applicant shall be discriminated against on the basis of gender, race, creed, color, sex, age, national origin, marital status, pregnancy or parenthood, veteran status, citizenship status, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
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What We Do
Acadian Asset Management is a global, systematic investment manager. Founded in 1986, Acadian is head-quartered in Boston, with affiliates in London, Singapore, and Sydney. We find our edge in the convergence of talented people, rich data, and powerful tools – all underpinned by a collegial culture with an ardent appetite for continuous research and healthy debate.
Building on the idea that markets are inefficient, we were among the first firms in the world to apply data and technology to the systematic evaluation of global investments. With over 35 years of data-driven insights, we manage equity and credit strategies intended to deliver active returns and alternative strategies designed to deliver absolute, uncorrelated results. Our sustainable investing capabilities provide a platform for both client-specific solutions and a cutting-edge approach to engagement.
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