Platform Engineer: Self-Service Infra & CI/CD Champion

Cumberland; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group medical insurance

Dental and vision insurance

401k with employer match

Disability and life insurance

Job summary

DRW in Chicago is seeking a Platform Engineer to join our Platform Infrastructure team supporting Cumberland and FICCO's trading operations. You will drive deployment patterns, build self-service infrastructure, and enhance monitoring and observability for mission-critical systems.

This role focuses on automating deployment, improving signal over noise in observability, and evolving platforms to meet demanding trading needs. The position is based in our Chicago office.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting mission-critical, high-performance trading systems.
• Strong Kubernetes experience with deployment/troubleshooting/optimization.
• Proficiency with Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and observability.
• Solid Python skills for automation and tooling.
• Hands-on experience with Ansible and Terraform/Terragrunt.
• Strong Linux systems knowledge.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and software delivery best practices.
• Familiarity with TLS and network protocols (including multicast and WebSockets).
• Familiarity with AWS.

Responsibilities

• Converge and improve application deployment patterns across containerized and non-containerized workloads.
• Build self-service infrastructure provisioning using Terraform/Terragrunt and Ansible.
• Drive CI/CD excellence and advocate for modern software delivery practices.
• Enhance monitoring and alerting to enable proactive capacity management and early failure detection - without the noise.
• Research and implement technologies that improve container orchestration, workload management, and system visibility.
• Learn and support in-house tools for infrastructure management and deployment workflows.
• Participate in on-call rotation to resolve trade-critical issues and identify opportunities for automation.
• Maintain system security through regular patching, reporting, and compliance with security standards.
• Challenge the status quo and advocate for meaningful change.

Skills

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Terragrunt

Linux

CI/CD

AWS

Networking TLS

Tools

Terraform/Terragrunt

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

Kubernetes

Job description

DRW in Chicago is seeking a Platform Engineer to join our Platform Infrastructure team supporting Cumberland and FICCO's trading operations. You will drive deployment patterns, build self-service infrastructure, and enhance monitoring and observability for mission-critical systems.

This role focuses on automating deployment, improving signal over noise in observability, and evolving platforms to meet demanding trading needs. The position is based in our Chicago office.