BAM is a hedge fund, based in Chicago, with offices around the world. We are looking to add an additional cloud engineer to our team of 2. We're responsible for architecture and implementation of the firm's cloud adoption (mostly AWS), as well as management of the firm's HashiCorp platforms.
Balyasny Asset Management | Cloud Engineer | Chicago, IL | Onsite, Full Time
Balyasny is rapidly transitioning to a cloud-first environment and seeks an experienced cloud engineer with expertise in design, implementation, administration and troubleshooting of public cloud based resources particularly within Amazon Web Services (AWS). The candidate will interact with internal business and technical teams to outline and execute on requirements delivering secure, functional and scalable cloud solutions.
Currently, I am the only cloud engineer at BAM and am looking to expand the team. We will be working across the full AWS stack to provide innovative, scalable solutions to developers as they work on some of the most interesting problems in financial services.
We're looking for someone with a few years of hands on experience with AWS, familiar with infrastructure as code (CloudFormation or Terraform), and who loves automating infrastructure management tasks.
If interested, send me a note at: madorjan -at- bamfunds.com
Balyasny Asset Management | DevOps Engineer | Chicago or NYC | Full-time
Balyasny Asset Management (BAM) seeks to be the "Amazon of Hedge Funds", focusing on a diverse array of investment strategies to provide uncorrelated returns to our investors. We're seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our strategic infrastructure group.
We're looking for someone who is process driven and has a diverse technology background with a particular focus on automation and orchestration technologies. We are also really interested in finding someone who has experience driving change within an organization. This role will be very hands-on keyboard, implementing automation for all of our infrastructure and application platforms, but will also be required to advocate for automation and work with stakeholders across the technology organization.
Some of the tech we're using: AWS, GCP, VMware, Cisco UCS, Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, TeamCity, GitHub
Primary Languages: Python, Java, .NET
If you're interested in hearing more, or applying, shoot me an email (email is in my profile) and I'm happy to provide more information!
I've been working on collecting data for a while that is basically latency between all of the different AWS regions. There have been several times over the course of last year where I had been working with a client on trying to quantify latency between different AWS regions - I found lots of static, or old data, but nothing that was really up to date.
So I made this tool: https://www.cloudping.co. Basically, it collects data every 6 hours between for latency between all of the AWS regions and then I pull the data into the table displayed on the above website. I've made it a tad more complicated than it probably needs to be, but only for my own learning benefits.
Anyways, I'm wondering thoughts/ideas from the greater community. Does this tool seem valuable to anyone besides me? Any ideas for improvements? More technical details are on the GitHub Readme, as well: https://github.com/mda590/cloudping.co
1) Udemy - I get a lot of courses here on random subjects that I find interesting, or don't even know I find interesting until I go through the course catalog. Udemy tends to have a lot of sales (courses for $10-15 each) and the content is generally well put together and informative. I've mostly taken photography courses from here, but they have a wide range of stuff.
2) Linux Academy - I like LA because they tend to have a lot of updated content on some of the newest in cloud and systems management technologies. They also have well put together packages for certifications and things, such as AWS.
3) A Cloud Guru - Always get my AWS courses from here. I always wondered if they would be successful since they were specializing in such a niche area, but with AWS' rapid development and release of new products, I am sure they are having no trouble. The content here is well researched and put together, and the course creators are very engaged with their community.
The main things that are important, I think, for an online course platform are:
1) Quality content - put some effort into knowing what you're talking about. Don't just seem like you're reading out of a textbook, or putting together slides based off of some other source. Provide anecdotal information during the course that goes along with the subject you're talking about, show you know your stuff.
2) Engage with your learners - as someone taking an online course, it's always nice to be able to ask questions about something either that I need more clarification on or want more details about. Provide a platform to ask those questions, and allow the community to chime in and answer. Also be engaged as the course creator.
I'd definitely be interested in this and would absolutely pay for it. I am finding it difficult to really get a grasp on Chef since it seems like it's constantly evolving, and no one has really come out with a good course on it. Learning about Chef in the context of an actual application deployment would be useful, I imagine.
I use Pinboard. Super simple with easy tagging and easy to find stuff. Their "archival account" (not free) does exactly what you're looking for: https://pinboard.in/upgrade/
You may want to have a look at odrive (https://www.odrive.com). Use it to sync a bunch of different storage accounts via this single app. Works alright for what it does, and they have an S3 option.
BAM is a hedge fund, based in Chicago, with offices around the world. We are looking to add an additional cloud engineer to our team of 2. We're responsible for architecture and implementation of the firm's cloud adoption (mostly AWS), as well as management of the firm's HashiCorp platforms.
More information on the role is available here: https://goo.gl/o3PqEn
If interested, my email is in my profile.