Cloud Engineer

As a Cloud Engineer at DRW, you design, build, and operate the company's cloud and hybrid infrastructure across a diverse multi-cloud environment. You take ownership and accountability for the reliability, security, and performance of what you deliver, partnering closely with engineering, security, networking, operations, and business teams to enable appropriate use of public cloud, private infrastructure, and hybrid architectures.

What you'll do

• Manage and evolve cloud platforms including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Alibaba Cloud (AliCloud), and Snowflake, along with associated hybrid and on-premises dependencies required to operate them reliably
• Design and maintain cloud foundations, including account/subscription/project organization, identity integration (federation, workload identity), policy guardrails, logging, tagging, and shared services
• Serve as the escalation point for complex production and cloud/hybrid-infrastructure issues, owning root cause analysis and holding yourself accountable for durable fixes
• Build and maintain automation, standards, reference architectures, and documentation that strengthen deployment consistency and enable teams to consume cloud services safely
• Engineer and support resilient cloud connectivity, including transit architectures and connectivity between cloud providers and on-premises environments
• Implement and improve observability across cloud services, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and capacity dashboards
• Advise application and infrastructure teams on cloud, hybrid, and on-premises architecture choices based on reliability, performance, security, and cost
• Partner with Finance and Purchasing on cloud cost visibility, forecasting, and commitments, holding yourself accountable for the team's FinOps and efficiency goals
• Research, evaluate, and implement new cloud services and capabilities that improve reliability, developer experience, security, or efficiency
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation supporting production cloud environments

What you bring

• 5+ years of experience engineering and administering production cloud environments in multi-cloud and hybrid settings, with strong AWS experience and exposure to one or more of Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud (AliCloud), and Snowflake
• Integration experience with on-premises infrastructure
• Experience with infrastructure as code and automation, including Terraform, Python, APIs/SDKs, CI/CD, and Git
• Strong knowledge of cloud networking, including VPCs, routing, DNS, firewalls, load balancing, private connectivity, and interconnect providers
• Working knowledge of cloud security fundamentals, including IAM, encryption/key management, secrets management, and least-privilege design
• Experience with cloud observability, monitoring, and alerting, and a proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex production problems while making sound decisions under pressure
• Understanding of cloud cost models and practical approaches to cost allocation, optimization, capacity planning, and FinOps
• Excellent communication and documentation skills, with the ability to learn quickly, take initiative, and adapt to changing technologies and business needs
• A proven track record of delivering secure, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions, with strong ownership and accountability for production outcomes

Nice to have

• Previous experience in financial services or trading environments

What we offer

• Annual base salary of $175,000 to $250,000 depending on experience, qualifications, and relevant skill set
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance
• 401k with discretionary employer match
• Short and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance
• Health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts

About DRW

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over three decades of experience, headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia. The company trades a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets, and has expanded into real estate, venture capital, and cryptoassets.