Senior Cloud Platform Engineer — Architecture Foundry

CME Group; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 146,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity program

401(k) plan and pension

Education reimbursement

Paid time off

Mental health benefit

Job summary

CME Group is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to join the Central Hub within our Architecture Foundry. You will design enterprise-grade IaC templates, automation pipelines, and guardrails to enable secure, scalable cloud workloads on GCP.

Collaborate with Enterprise Architects and AI Solutions Specialist to craft platform blueprints, optimize workloads, and deliver push-button deployment patterns that accelerate product delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical discipline.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain enterprise-grade Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) templates (Terraform, KCC, Helm Charts) for Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Develop and enforce Policy-as-Code frameworks, DevSecOps pipelines, and CSPM guardrails to ensure pattern conformance and security auditing.
• Optimize GKE workloads, autoscaling, and resource allocation to prevent stockouts and improve efficiency.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects and AI Solutions Specialist to host AI agents and LLM workflows in secure cloud environments.

Job description

Are you a forward-thinking platform engineer who loves designing resilient, self-healing cloud infrastructure? Do you want to build the automated pipelines and secure \"Paved Paths\" that enable development teams to deploy cutting-edge software instantly? CME Group is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to join the Central Hub within our Architecture Foundry. Sitting inside our innovative, cross-functional \"Architecture-as-a-Product\" pod, you will partner directly with Enterprise Architects and an AI Solutions Specialist to build next-generation platform blueprints, automated deployment patterns, and highly optimized workload models on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). In this role, you will be the operational foundation of our applied architecture initiative. Rather than acting as a traditional administrative gatekeeper, you will champion \"Architecture by Enablement.\" You will build highly automated, scalable cloud environments, implement robust Policy-as-Code guardrails, and engineer the underlying platform building blocks that empower delivery teams across CME Group to ship secure, resilient applications with push-button simplicity.

What You’ll Do

• Build Paved Path solutions: Design, build, and maintain enterprise-grade Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), configuration templates (principally using Terraform, Kubernetes Config Connector [KCC], and Helm Charts), and for Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Automation & Guardrails: Develop and enforce Policy-as-Code (PoC) frameworks, DevSecOps pipelines, and Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) guardrails to ensure pattern conformance, detect drift, and automate security auditing and compliance.
• Optimize GKE & Cloud Workloads: Implement advanced container orchestration strategies utilizing Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), addressing workload optimization, autoscaling, and compute resource allocation to prevent stockout issues.
• Partner for Applied AI: Securely provision and connect the cloud environments, API gateways, and GKE infrastructure necessary to host next-generation AI agents and large language model (LLM) workflows.
• Workload Performance & FinOps Resilience by Design: Integrate highly resilient configurations (such as active/active multi-region topologies, automated failover, and robust disaster recovery) directly into standard platform templates.
• FinOps-Driven Optimization: Build and embed cost optimization models within foundational templates to guide forecasting, monitor, scale, and lower resource spend across various cloud-native workloads.
• Promote \"You Build It, You Run It\" (YBIYRI): Deliver highly visible telemetry, logging, and self-healing tools inside application templates to foster a strong operational ownership culture across engineering teams.

What You’ll Bring

• Professional Background: 8+ years of experience with a proven track record of designing modular, enterprise-wide platform architectures.
• Financial Services Context: Experience operating within a highly regulated, tier-one financial services environment or a SIFMU-compliant organization is highly preferred.
• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP): Deep hands-on experience managing GCP environments, focusing on core network security, GKE, IAM, Vertex AI infrastructure, and hybrid connectivity.
• IaC & Tooling: Exceptional proficiency with Terraform, KCC, Helm, and modern CI/CD automation tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo).
• Kubernetes Orchestration: Advanced knowledge of GKE / Kubernetes networking, storage, secrets management, and custom resource definitions (CRDs).
• System Programming / Scripting: Strong coding skills in Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages to write automation tooling and custom pipeline steps.
• GCP Credentials: GCP Professional Cloud Architect, GCP Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, or GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer.
• Kubernetes & IaC Credentials: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), or HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate.

What You’ll Get

Become a cornerstone of a high-visibility function where your contributions directly shape the core technology foundations of financial markets, tackling technical challenges at an unmatched scale. A supportive environment fostering career progression, continuous learning, and an inclusive culture. Broad exposure to CME's diverse products, asset classes, and cross-functional teams. A competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

• A competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
• Explore our full range of benefits
• CME Group is committed to offering a competitive total rewards package for our employees that recognizes their contributions to the business and reflects our long-term investment in their future.
• The pay range for this role is $145,700-$242,900.
• Actual salary offered will be dependent on a wide array of factors including but not limited to: relevant experience, skills, education and comparison to internal employees (where relevant).
• Our compensation program also includes an annual target bonus opportunity for all employees, as well as the opportunity to become an owner in the company through our broad-based equity program.
• Through our benefits program, we strive to offer flexibility, value and choice. From comprehensive health coverage, to a retirement package that includes both a 401(k) and an active pension plan, to highly competitive education reimbursement provisions, paid time off and a mental health benefit, CME Group offers a holistic benefits package for our team and their dependents.

CME Group

CME Group: Where Futures are Made CME Group is the world’s leading derivatives marketplace. But who we are goes deeper than that. Here, you can impact markets worldwide. Transform industries. And build a career by shaping tomorrow. We invest in your success and you own it – all while working alongside a team of leading experts who inspire you in ways big and small. Problem solvers, difference makers, trailblazers. Those are our people. And we’re looking for more. At CME Group, we embrace our employees' unique experiences and skills to ensure that everyone’s perspectives are acknowledged and valued.

As an equal-opportunity employer, we consider all potential employees without regard to any protected characteristic.

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As the world’s leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group is where the world comes to manage risk. We enable clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes foreign exchange energy agricultural products and metals. We meet uncertainty and volatility with confidence and clarity, across the trading lifecycle and around the world.

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