The role in a nutshell 
The Cloud Operations Engineer is responsible for building out our operations platform, ensuring efficiency through automation, deploying product updates, identifying production issues and implementing strategic integrations that meet our clients’ needs. The ideal candidate will have good communication skills, a well-rounded understanding of Enterprise Architecture, and an automation background with experience running production environments at scale. The candidate will help develop new architectural patterns for emerging products, contribute to environment standardization, develop new monitoring and security tools, and contribute to maintaining operational BAU.

This is an exciting time for Octaura as we are rapidly growing and are looking for energetic, collaborative and driven thinkers to join us! Please note this role is based out of our NYC office and our current structure is 4 days (Mon-Thurs) in the office, 1 day from home. 


Core responsibilities

• Contribute to operational readiness and platform stability by proactive automation and reactive environment support
• Develop and maintain a platform of integrated systems and tooling to support Agile and DevOps practices across a diverse set of workflows used by multiple development teams
• Evaluate and integrate third-party software and configure connectivity with client infrastructure
• Maintain and enforce compliance with audit controls and external certifications
• Design and implement solutions for managing applications and infrastructure, with goals of increasing the security, reliability, repeatability, and consistency of operational tasks
• Work with software developers to ensure best practices of development, processes, testing, ­operations, production deployment and monitoring
• Work closely with business and technology teams to analyze and resolve issues on the platform
• Provide day-to-day application-level support for production incidents
• Develop and maintain automation application tools, websites, and utilities
• Actively contribute to ongoing process improvement to help streamline the development life cycle

Desired qualifications

• 5+ years of infrastructure engineering experience
• Extensive knowledge of modern cloud environments (preferably AWS)
• Linux sysadmin and debugging experience
• Proficiency in 1 or more scripting languages. Python preferred
• Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-code management. Terraform preferred
• Problem solving and focus on understanding root-cause of issues
• Experience with VMs and containers
• Experience running scalable, multi-region production environments
• Strong communication skills
• Team player
• Sense of humor

Time frame: June – August 2026 

Location: NYC 

Office Requirement: In office - Monday through Friday 

It's time to transform markets 

Existing workflows within syndicated loan and CLO markets are painful for clients: they are outdated, overcomplicated, and time-consuming. It’s time for a change. 

Octaura is reimagining the way these markets trade, with efficiency, transparency, and simplicity at the heart of what we do. We bring trading capabilities, data and analytics together for the first time on a digitized platform–fundamentally transforming the markets and streamlining workflows like never before.  

At Octaura, everyone belongs 

It’s essential that Octaurians are confident in knowing they have the space to use their voice and talents. The world is diverse, and we actively want our team to reflect this. We’re a values-driven company and by engaging, solving, and evolving together, we create a culture that is collaborative, transparent, impactful and innovative. And fun!   

The Opportunity 

Octaura offers exciting summer internship opportunities, especially for those interested in fintech and electronic trading. Jumpstart your career and your entrepreneurial endeavors with a dynamic and innovative company, where you’ll be offered an exciting inside look at how a small business enterprise is run and managed, while learning about the industry and developing applicable and transferable skills to use in their professional career.  

We are seeking motivated and enthusiastic summer interns to join our data engineering team. An internship at Octaura provides an opportunity to acquire hands-on experience while contributing to meaningful projects that support our organization’s goals. You will gain actionable skills and lessons, while getting involved with complex projects throughout the summer. You’ll sit alongside experienced colleagues in our open floorplan, work closely with department heads, get facetime with C-suite leaders, interact with clients, and create industry relationships to grow your network. 

As an intern on the data engineering team you will work directly with our senior data engineers, software engineers and data scientists to build and maintain the infrastructure and data pipelines that touch all parts of our company. In this role you'll assist with developing Python-based data workflows, supporting cloud-based data processing and storage while gaining hands-on experience with the latest in data engineering tools in a collaborative environment. Common technology that you will use includes Python, Spark, Redshift, Apache Airflow, Terraform and many other tools within the AWS Cloud. The ideal candidate has a computer science or related background,  some experience using SQL and Python (or related language) as well as a strong interest in creating the data systems that power a customer-facing trading platform, internal business intelligence and our agentic AI systems in a very fast-paced startup environment. 

The energy in the office is palpable, and employees look forward to coming to work each day. Our flexibility and flat structure will allow you to make life-long connections while diving head-first into the financial and technology industries.  

Perks 

• Fully stocked pantry 

• Weekly happy hour 

• Catered breakfast on Mondays 

• Catered lunch on Fridays 

• Monthly catered lunch to celebrate culture 

• Employee team-building events 

Ideal Candidate 

• Within one year of undergraduate graduation (December 2026 – May 2027) 

• Strong communication and analytical skills 

• (Tech interns) Major in Computer Science, Data Engineering