Lead Technologist, Cloud Engineering

MIO Partners • New York, NY

3d

About The Position

MIO Partners’ Enterprise IT team is seeking a Lead Technologist to manage the organization’s AWS cloud environment and work with business and technology stakeholders to design and implement DevOps and platform engineering practices. The role supports a secure, standardized, scalable, resilient, and efficient application and infrastructure footprint. It also contributes across the full system development life cycle, from requirements gathering and application design through coding, testing, delivery, support, and enhancements.

The successful candidate will provide technical leadership while remaining hands-on, developing cloud architectures and practices with attention to security, reliability, performance, and cost. The role partners with developers, QA, AppSecOps, business owners, and other stakeholders to translate requirements into consistent technical solutions, improve deployment processes, and raise development standards. Work allocation is estimated at 25% technology leadership, 25% relationship building and requirements gathering, and 50% hands-on development.

MIO’s applications are primarily built with Python/Django and libraries including Pandas, NumPy, and PL/SQL. The technology environment also includes SQL Server, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, Kafka, Tableau, and third-party APIs and data sources. Applications are hosted in AWS using Docker containers on ECS, Fargate, and EC2. The role follows a Scrum methodology and includes balancing tactical needs with longer-term projects.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles.
• Strong experience with AWS cloud technologies.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline tools such as GitLab Pipelines or Jenkins.
• Understanding of monitoring and observability tools such as ELK, Dynatrace, or Datadog.
• Experience with microservices, serverless architectures, and containerization.
• Proficiency in AWS, including infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Good intuition for gathering end-user requirements and an iterative, collaborative approach to design.
• Strong client relationship management skills and excellent written and verbal communication skills for interacting at all levels.
• Authorization to work in the U.S. without requiring employer-sponsored work authorization now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

• A Bachelor of Science in computer science or a related discipline; strong experience with a less directly related degree will also be considered.
• Formal problem-solving and/or analytical training or experience.
• Experience working with management consultants.
• Experience with financial services firms, such as asset managers, hedge funds, or broker/dealers.

Responsibilities

• Architect and manage cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure, considering security, stability, and cost.
• Design and oversee implementation of CI/CD pipelines and automation strategies.
• Establish infrastructure-as-code practices using CDK, GitLab, and AWS developer tools.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to support platform stability.
• Evaluate cloud technologies and develop best practices suited to MIO’s use cases.
• Ensure application architectures follow cloud best practices for reliability, security, performance, and efficiency.
• Develop and enforce best practices for system security, compliance, and disaster recovery.
• Optimize infrastructure costs while maintaining performance standards.
• Develop reference implementations and contribute hands-on code as needed.
• Work with development teams to improve deployment processes and system reliability.
• Collaborate with business owners and stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions aligned with business goals and technology best practices.
• Maintain documentation for reference architectures, design patterns, and system configurations.
• Improve development capabilities, standards, processes, technology selection, deployment steps, code reviews, and IT tools.
• Synthesize requirements from teams inside and outside IT, propose creative solutions, and guide MIO toward appropriate technical approaches.
• Organize work with end users, business analysts, architects, and developers using a Scrum methodology.
• Partner with development, QA, and AppSecOps teams to promote standardization, consistency, and improved security.
• During the first six months, contribute to improving cloud infrastructure reliability and observability, support the CI/CD migration, make hands-on contributions to projects, build relationships with key partners, and contribute to discussions about the evolution of MIO’s technology and cloud architecture.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Telemedicine services.
• Life, accident, and disability insurance.
• Parental leave and family planning benefits.
• Caregiving resources.
• A generous retirement program.
• Financial guidance.
• Paid time off.
• Some roles are eligible for discretionary bonuses based on factors such as individual and/or organizational performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior