Cloud platform Engineer

YOUR ROLE 

As a Cloud & Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in modernizing and standardizing CFM Portfolios’ technical platform. Based in Paris, you will work alongside experienced engineers to strengthen our CI/CD practices, drive our containerization migration, and support the transition of our Research and production platforms to AWS. 

You are first and foremost a Cloud and DevOps expert with a genuine platform engineering culture. You bring solid development skills and a deep understanding of system internals and performance constraints. 

Experience in financial markets is not required. 

 KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Cloud Migration: Support Research teams in their transition to AWS, especially for their HPC use-cases. Contribute to the migration of our production applications to the cloud. 

• CI/CD: Audit, redesign and standardize CI/CD pipelines across the Portfolio division. Define standards, implement monitoring, and drive adoption of best practices. 

• Python Stack: Modernize our Python ecosystem - internal packaging, dependency management, quality tooling (linting, typing, testing). Ensure environment consistency across teams. 

• Containerization: Lead the migration of our applications and environments to Docker. Design and maintain a catalogue of reference images. 

• Configuration & Release Management: Implement robust configuration and release management processes, with full traceability and reproducibility across environments. 

YOUR SKILLS 

We know that strong candidates may not meet every requirement listed below. If this role interests you and your experience is close to what we are looking for, we encourage you to apply. 

Education: Master’s degree in computer science and software engineering. 

Experience: 7+ years in Cloud, Platform Engineering or DevOps roles. 

Technical skills 

Cloud — AWS 

• Proficiency with core AWS services: EC2, S3, IAM, ECS, Batch, VPC, Lambda 

• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code practices (Terraform or equivalent) 

CI/CD & DevOps 

• Deep expertise in CI/CD tooling (GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions or equivalent) 

• Solid hands-on experience with Docker (build, optimization, security, registries) 

• Strong Linux and shell scripting skills 

Development & Systems culture 

• Ability to write clean, maintainable Python code 

• Solid understanding of system fundamentals: processes, threads, CPU, RAM, GPU, concurrency, I/O 

• Proficiency in Python packaging and dependency management (pip, uv, conda, mamba…) 

Collaboration and communication 

• Ability to work cross-functionally with developers, quants and researchers 

• Strong communication skills for promoting and sharing best practices 

• Pragmatic, rigorous and autonomous in complex technical environments 

Bonus Points 

• Experience with HPC or distributed computing environments 

• Experience in quantitative finance or a similarly demanding technical environment