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title: 'Cloud Engineer at Winton'
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# Cloud Engineer at Winton

- **Company:** Winton
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2024-12-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/winton/jobs/4495461101

## Job description

## About Winton

Winton is a research-based investment management company with a specialist focus on statistical and mathematical inference in financial markets. The firm researches and trades quantitative investment strategies, which are implemented systematically via thousands of securities, spanning the world's major liquid asset classes. Founded in 1997 by David Harding, Winton today manages assets for some of the world’s largest institutional investors.

We employ ambitious professionals who want to work collaboratively at the leading edge of investment management.

We are seeking an ambitious, enthusiastic, and highly motivated Cloud Engineer to join our technology team. This is an exciting opportunity to be a key player in the expansion of our cloud environment, contributing to the development of our execution systems, quantitative research platform, data ingestion pipelines, and post-trade applications. This hands-on role offers a unique chance to work with the latest cloud technologies and provides a high degree of autonomy and ownership in delivering impactful solutions to the business. If you are passionate about cloud technologies and eager to take on a challenging role with a high degree of autonomy and ownership, we would love to hear from you.

Our Technology

Operating in a cloud-first environment, we deploy containerised workloads to AWS through managed Kubernetes and scale on-demand to satisfy burstable workloads. Other managed services we use in AWS include EMR, RDS, MSK and bespoke EC2 solutions. All infrastructure is managed through Terraform, our source code is in GitHub and automation through GH actions.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Design, implement, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure to support various business divisions.
- Collaborate with researchers and other stakeholders to understand their requirements and deliver tailored solutions, with a keen eye on cost efficiency
- Ensure the security, reliability, and performance of cloud-based systems.
- Automate deployment, monitoring, and maintenance processes to enhance operational efficiency.
- Stay up to date with the latest cloud technologies and best practices

What we are looking for:

- 2+ years of experience in a similar role, with hands-on experience in AWS and Kubernetes.
- Strong belief in the ‘Infrastructure as code’ mind-set and a solid understanding of Terraform.
- Experience with CNCF technologies such as Argo CD, Kyverno and Prometheus.
- Proficient with Grafana to monitor and alert on critical systems
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

What Would Be Useful:

- AWS Certified Solutions Architect, CNCF certificate(s) or similar
- Knowledge of the Go Programming and understanding of Kubernetes operators
- Natural curiosity and enthusiastic about using AI-assisted development tools and integrating them into daily workflow
- Experience of automation through GitHub Actions or similar

## Equal Opportunity Workplace

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.

## About Winton

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Winton is a quantitative investment management firm that designs and trades systematic investment strategies across global liquid asset classes to generate absolute returns for institutional clients.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped, not venture-backed)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 1997
- **Founders**: Sir David Harding

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Quantitative Investment Management / Hedge Funds / Systematic Trading
- **Target customers**: Institutional investors (pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, financial advisers) seeking absolute returns and portfolio diversification.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To generate returns for clients across a range of market environments through original research, rigorous statistical analysis, and deep experience of markets.

## Products & Services
- **Flagship Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund**: A diversified systematic strategy across trading frequencies, asset classes (equities, commodities, FX, fixed income), and instruments (exchange-traded and OTC).
- **Trend-Following CTA Strategies**: A pioneer in trend following since 1997, offered as standalone or within multi-strategy programmes.
- **Systematic Alternatives Platform**: Scalable investment platform offering tailored solutions for institutional investors, including offshore, onshore, and single-investor fund formats.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private firm)
- **Key Metric**: $18 billion in assets under management [winton.com](https://www.winton.com/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Serves the world’s largest institutional investors and financial advisers globally. Offices across four continents (London, Abu Dhabi, and others).
- **Growth Signals**: Expansion into new investment strategies (e.g., MENA Equities Quantitative Researcher role). High employee retention (8 years average tenure). 43% of employees are Winton shareholders [winton.com](https://www.winton.com/working-at-winton).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Pioneer in systematic investing**: Founded in 1997, Winton is a long-established leader in trend-following and quantitative strategies, with a 25+ year track record.
- **Original research edge**: A consistent focus on R&D and methodological rigour is the core of their investment philosophy, differentiating them from peers.
- **Integrated, centralised platform**: Centralised data, execution, and operations infrastructure enables efficient strategy rollout across asset classes and trading frequencies, removing friction for researchers and portfolio managers.
- **High-performance, collaborative culture**: Emphasis on intellectual integrity, evidence-based decision-making, and cross-divisional collaboration (investment management, technology, business management).

## Strategic Focus
- **Multi-strategy expansion**: Actively hiring quantitative researchers and portfolio managers with expertise in new strategies (e.g., MENA equities, commodities) to expand beyond their core trend-following roots.
- **Technology and infrastructure investment**: Continually integrating the latest technologies (hybrid-cloud, containerised processes) to scale proprietary and open-source applications for data, execution, and post-trade activities.
- **Global reach**: Deepening presence across four continents and five time zones to support local client relationships and investment activities.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Collaborative, intellectually rigorous, and detail-oriented. The firm values “careful and considered decision-making” and open, supportive learning. Teams work across the stack and with business users directly, removing the need for product managers.
- **Work environment**: In-person focused office environment designed to maximise collaboration and creativity. Hybrid-cloud tech stack.
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive benefits programme for employees and families; compensation scheme that rewards excellence; 43% of employees are shareholders.
- **Engineering culture**: Technology teams are responsible for the core infrastructure of investment strategies. They host regular Tech Talks, sponsor conference attendance, and support upskilling through training and courses. Developers work closely with business users, fostering strong long-term relationships.
- **Tenure and stability**: Average employee tenure of 8 years, indicating strong retention and a stable, supportive environment [winton.com](https://www.winton.com/working-at-winton).
- **Recruitment process**: Transparent and supportive—application, phone interview, technical assessment/case study, video/onsite interviews, then offer. The process is designed to let candidates showcase abilities rather than pass arbitrary tests.

## Sources
1. [winton.com](https://www.winton.com/)
2. [winton.com - Working at Winton](https://www.winton.com/working-at-winton)
3. [winton.com - About / What We Do](https://www.winton.com/about)
4. [winton.com - Career Opportunities](https://www.winton.com/opportunities)
5. [winton.com - Leadership](https://www.winton.com/leadership)

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