Cloud Engineer
DRW is a Chicago-based diversified trading firm that uses technology, quantitative research, and risk management to provide liquidity across traditional and digital-asset markets.
About DRW
Founded by Don Wilson in 1992, DRW trades for its own account across global markets and operates strategies in cryptoassets, venture capital, real estate, carbon markets, and public-equity investments. Its crypto business, Cumberland, has provided institutional crypto-asset liquidity since 2014.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design, build, and operate cloud and hybrid infrastructure. You will manage cloud platforms, automate infrastructure, improve observability and connectivity, troubleshoot production issues, advise stakeholders, and support cloud cost management.
Requirements
- 5+ years engineering and administering production cloud environments
- Strong AWS experience and exposure to Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud, or Snowflake
- Experience with infrastructure as code and automation
- Knowledge of cloud networking
- Knowledge of cloud security fundamentals
- Experience with observability, monitoring, alerting, and production troubleshooting
- Understanding of cloud cost models, optimization, capacity planning, and FinOps
- Communication and documentation skills
- Experience delivering secure, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions
- Willingness to participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation
Responsibilities
- Manage and evolve cloud platforms and hybrid infrastructure
- Design and maintain cloud foundations, identity integration, policy guardrails, logging, tagging, and shared services
- Resolve complex production and cloud-infrastructure issues
- Build automation, standards, reference architectures, and documentation
- Engineer resilient cloud and on-premises connectivity
- Implement observability, monitoring, alerting, and capacity dashboards
- Advise teams on cloud, hybrid, and on-premises architecture choices
- Support cloud cost visibility, forecasting, commitments, and FinOps goals
- Evaluate and implement cloud services and capabilities
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Group medical insurance
- Pharmacy insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401k with discretionary employer match
- Short-term disability insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- Life and AD&D insurance
- Health savings accounts
- Flexible spending accounts
