Latency-Driven 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 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.