DevOps Engineer

DevOps / Cloud Engineer – Systematic Commodities Hedge Fund

Moreton Capital Partners (MCP) is a CFTC regulated systematic, technology-first investment manager trading across commodities, alternative markets, and emerging data-rich asset classes. We combine quantitative modelling, agentic AI, and deep domain expertise to build strategies with durable, uncorrelated alpha.

Technology is central to how we operate. We are building and scaling infrastructure supporting trading, research, data, and internal systems, and are hiring a DevOps Engineer to help support and improve it.

About the Role

We are seeking a hands-on DevOps Engineer to work closely with the engineering team across cloud infrastructure, automation, deployment, monitoring, and production reliability.

Our stack includes AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Docker, Aurora/PostgreSQL, Redis, Datadog, Airflow, and Python.

The role is ideal for someone with strong Linux and AWS fundamentals who enjoys troubleshooting systems, automating repetitive work, and improving how infrastructure is built and operated.

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Build and maintain infrastructure across AWS, including ECS, EC2, S3, VPC, CloudFront, WAF, and ALB
• Manage infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Support Docker-based production and development environments
• Help improve infrastructure reliability, security, and performance

Automation & Deployment

• Build and maintain CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions
• Use Python and shell scripting to automate operational and infrastructure tasks
• Support deployment processes and troubleshoot application and infrastructure issues
• Help improve engineering workflows and reduce manual processes

Monitoring & Data Infrastructure

• Monitor applications and infrastructure using Datadog
• Support Aurora/PostgreSQL, Redis, and Airflow environments
• Help improve logging, monitoring, alerting, and production visibility
• Investigate infrastructure and application issues across Linux, networking, databases, and AWS

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of AWS

• Strong Linux skills

• Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code

• Strong Python scripting skills

• Experience with Docker