Cloud Performance Engineer

DRW; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

DRW in London is seeking a Cloud Performance Engineer to design high-performance cloud architectures for trading workloads. You will join the Cloud Performance Team, collaborating with cloud engineers, software developers, and network engineers to optimize end-to-end performance.

The role emphasizes automation, IaC with Terraform, and experience with AWS services. A strong Linux background and scripting in Bash and Python are beneficial.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience with AWS, including EC2, VPC and Direct Connect, IAM concepts.
• Experience using Terraform to manage cloud infra and compute/network resources (Docker, Kubernetes, Cisco devices).
• Solid Linux fundamentals and the Linux network stack.
• Automation via Bash scripting and Python, with serverless orchestration experience.
• Experience with AI coding agents balancing prototyping with code quality.
• Security-first mindset, following firm-wide security policies.
• Strong problem-solving and ability to drive work to completion.
• Strong cross-team communication.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement latency-sensitive cloud and hybrid cloud architectures.
• Build and maintain systems to monitor latency of distributed workloads.
• Develop orchestration tooling for provisioning cloud resources and networking configurations.
• Create backend systems to collect performance metrics and queries.

Skills

AWS

Networking

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux

Python

Bash

Go

C++

AI coding agents

Tools

Cisco devices

Job description

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.

Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets.

We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it's not just what we do that matters-it's how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.

We are seeking a Cloud Performance Engineer to work with technology teams acrossthe firm to build high-performance cloud solutions for trading workloads. You will join the Cloud Performance Team, working alongside cloud engineers, software developers, Linux- and network engineers to optimize performance end to end.

The ideal candidate draws on experience in cloud technology, systems engineering, networking and automation.

What you will do in this role:

• Design and implement cloud and hybrid cloud architectures for latency-sensitivetrading workloads.
• Build and maintain systems that continuously monitor the latency characteristics ofdistributed hybrid workloads.
• Work on orchestration tooling for provisioning cloud resources as well as networkingconfigurations and server-side processes
• Build backend systems for collecting performance metrics and tooling to query it

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), with deepknowledge of networking and compute services (EC2, VPC, Direct Connect). Goodoverview of the AWS service landscape and core concepts such as IAM
• Experience in using IaC tools such as Terraform to manage both cloud infrastructureand a broad set of compute and networking resources (docker, K8s, Cisco devices)
• Experience in network fundamentals (DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, routing, switching, HTTP)and major routing protocols
• Solid understanding of Linux systems and the Linux network stack
• Strong background in automation via Bash scripting and Python programming, ideallyin conjunction with orchestration through serverless cloud services.
• Demonstratable experience working with modern AI coding agents, balancing rapidprototyping with critical review to ensure simplicity and quality of deliverables
• Able to implement systems with a security-first mindset, adhering to firm-wide securitypolicies, and best practice implementations.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to independently drive work tocompletion
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building data pipelines for centralizing structured data
• Experience working with Cisco routing and switching hardware
• Experience working with Google Cloud Platform
• Experience programming in a compiled languages (preferably Go or C++)
• Experience with Linux kernel bypass techniques such as DPDK.

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