Cloud Performance 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
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About the Role
You will design and implement cloud and hybrid cloud architectures for latency-sensitive workloads. You will monitor distributed systems, develop orchestration tooling for cloud resources and network configurations, and build backend systems for collecting and querying performance metrics. You will also automate infrastructure, apply security-first practices, and collaborate across technology teams.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience with Amazon Web Services
- Deep knowledge of AWS networking and compute services including EC2 VPC and Direct Connect
- Knowledge of AWS services and IAM
- Experience with Terraform for cloud infrastructure and compute and networking resources
- Experience with Docker Kubernetes and Cisco devices
- Knowledge of DNS DHCP TCP/IP routing switching HTTP and major routing protocols
- Understanding of Linux systems and the Linux network stack
- Strong Bash scripting and Python programming skills
- Experience with serverless cloud orchestration
- Experience with modern AI coding agents
- Ability to apply security policies and best practices
- Strong problem solving skills
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Experience building data pipelines for structured data
- Experience with Cisco routing and switching hardware
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform
- Experience with a compiled language preferably Go or C++
- Experience with Linux kernel bypass techniques such as DPDK
Responsibilities
- Design and implement cloud and hybrid cloud architectures
- Monitor latency characteristics of distributed hybrid workloads
- Develop orchestration tooling for provisioning cloud resources
- Manage networking configurations and server side processes
- Build backend systems for collecting performance metrics
- Develop tooling to query performance data
- Manage cloud infrastructure with infrastructure as code
- Automate systems with Bash and Python
- Implement systems using security-first practices
- Drive technical work to completion independently
- Collaborate across technology teams