DRW

Cloud Engineer

DRW$175K — $250K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in engineering and administering multi-cloud production environments, especially AWS.
  • Familiarity with Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud, and Snowflake.
  • Experience in infrastructure as code using Terraform, Python, APIs, CI/CD, and Git.
  • Strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals.
  • Solid grasp of cloud security principles such as IAM and encryption management.
  • Proficiency in cloud observability and troubleshooting under pressure.
  • Excellent communication, documentation skills, and adaptability.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and evolve complex cloud platforms across multiple clouds.
  • Design and maintain foundational cloud architecture and policies.
  • Serve as an escalation point for production issues and conduct root cause analysis.
  • Develop automation and documentation to enhance deployment consistency.
  • Engineer resilient cloud connectivity solutions between providers and on-premises.
  • Implement observability practices across services for better monitoring.
  • Advise teams on architecture decisions focusing on reliability and cost efficiency.
  • Collaborate with Finance for cloud cost management and optimization.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401k plan with discretionary employer matching contributions.
  • Short and long-term disability coverage.
  • Life and AD&D insurance.
  • Health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts.
Full Job Description
We are seeking a Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate DRW's cloud and hybrid infrastructure across a diverse multi-cloud environment, taking ownership and accountability for the reliability, security, and performance of what you deliver. This role helps ensure our cloud infrastructure is secure, highly available, and optimized to support our continued success and growth. You will partner 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: • Platform Management: Manage and evolve cloud platforms, including but not limited to AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Alibaba Cloud (AliCloud), and Snowflake, along with the associated hybrid and on-premises dependencies required to operate them reliably. • Cloud Foundations: Design and maintain cloud foundations, including account/subscription/project organization, identity integration (federation, workload identity), policy guardrails, logging, tagging, and shared services. • Operational Excellence: Serve as the escalation point for complex production and cloud/hybrid-infrastructure issues, owning root cause analysis and holding yourself accountable for durable fixes, engaging cloud provider and partner support teams as needed. • Automation & Standards: Build and maintain automation, standards, reference architectures, and documentation that strengthen deployment consistency and enable teams to consume cloud services safely and consistently. • Integration & Collaboration: Engineer and support resilient cloud connectivity, including transit architectures and connectivity between cloud providers and on-premises environments. • Observability & Monitoring: Implement and improve observability across cloud services, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and capacity dashboards. • Stakeholder Support: Advise application and infrastructure teams on cloud, hybrid, and on-premises architecture choices based on reliability, performance, security, and cost. • Cost Management: Partner with Finance and Purchasing on cloud cost visibility, forecasting, and commitments, holding yourself accountable for the team's FinOps and efficiency goals. • Continuous Improvement: Research, evaluate, and implement new cloud services and capabilities that improve reliability, developer experience, security, or efficiency. What We're Looking For: • 5+ years of experience engineering and administering production cloud environments in multi-cloud and hybrid settings, with strong AWS experience, exposure to one or more of Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud (AliCloud), and Snowflake; and integration 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 while working effectively across technical teams and cloud providers. • A proven track record of delivering secure, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions, with strong ownership and accountability for production outcomes. • Willingness to participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation supporting production cloud environments. • Previous experience in financial services or trading environments is a plus. The annual base salary range for this position is $175,000 to $250,000 depending on the candidate's experience, qualifications, and relevant skill set. The position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition, DRW offers a comprehensive suite of employee benefits including 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 financial trading firm that specializes in derivatives trading. The company was founded in 1992 by Don Wilson and has since grown to have offices in Chicago, London, Montreal, New York, and Singapore. DRW trades a variety of financial instruments, including futures, options, and cryptocurrencies. The company is known for its quantitative trading strategies and has developed a number of proprietary trading systems. DRW is also involved in venture capital and has invested in a number of technology startups.
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Size
1,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1992

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