Cloud Engineer

DRW· Chicago, IL

Posted November 8, 2026

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Experience
5+ years
Pay
$175K – $250K per year
Education
Not specified
Location
Chicago, IL
Work mode
On-site
Job type
Full-time

About this role

DRW is a diversified proprietary trading firm running a multi-cloud and hybrid environment. This engineer designs and operates that infrastructure and acts as the escalation point for complex production issues.

What you will do

  • Manage AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud and Snowflake platforms
  • Design cloud foundations like accounts, identity and policy guardrails
  • Own root cause analysis for complex production issues
  • Build automation, standards and reference architectures
  • Engineer connectivity between clouds and on-premises
  • Improve observability and alerting
  • Advise teams on cloud architecture choices
  • Work with Finance on cloud cost and FinOps

What the employer expects

  • 5+ years running production cloud in multi-cloud and hybrid settings
  • Strong AWS experience
  • Terraform, Python, APIs, CI/CD and Git
  • Strong cloud networking knowledge
  • Cloud security fundamentals including IAM and key management
  • Cloud observability and troubleshooting skills
  • Willing to join a 24/7 on-call rotation

Benefits

  • Group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance
  • 401k with discretionary employer match
  • Short and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance
  • Health savings and flexible spending accounts
  • Annual discretionary bonus

Skills

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Terraform
  • Python
  • CI/CD
  • Git
  • Cloud networking
  • IAM
  • FinOps

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