Cloud Engineer
DRW - Chicago, IL
Hiring: Cloud Engineer Company: DRW Location: Chicago, IL Job Posted Time: 2026-09-11 11:41:25 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Azure, CI/CD, DNS, Encryption, Equities, Fixed Income, GCP, Git, IAM, Infrastructure as Code, Load Balancing, Python, Root Cause Analysis, Snowflake, Terraform About the job Experience: •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. Required Skills: •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. Compensation: •$175,000 - $250,000 / year •We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!