Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - Multi-Cloud & FinOps

drweng; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 149,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

DRW, a leading diversified trading firm headquartered in Chicago, seeks a Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure across AWS, Azure, GCP, AliCloud and Snowflake. You will own reliability, security and performance, partnering with engineering, security and business teams to enable scalable cloud solutions.

You will design foundations, implement automation, manage costs with FinOps and provide on-call support.

Qualifications

• 5+ years configuring and running production cloud environments in multi-cloud/hybrid setups with strong AWS and exposure to Azure, GCP, AliCloud or Snowflake.
• IaC and automation experience using Terraform, Python, APIs/SDKs, CI/CD and Git.
• Solid cloud networking knowledge: VPCs, routing, DNS, firewalls, load balancing, private connectivity.
• Understanding of IAM, encryption, secret management, and least-privilege security.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex production issues under pressure and drive durable fixes.
• Knowledge of cloud cost models, FinOps, and cost optimization strategies.
• Strong communication and documentation, quick learner, and collaboration across teams.
• Track record of delivering secure, scalable cloud solutions with ownership of production outcomes.
• Willingness to participate in 24/7 on-call rotation; trading/financial services experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Platform Management: Manage cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP, AliCloud, Snowflake and related on-prem dependencies.
• Cloud Foundations: Design account structures, identity federation, policy guardrails, logging, tagging and shared services.
• Operational Excellence: Serve as escalation point for complex production cloud issues with root-cause analysis.
• Automation & Standards: Build automation, reference architectures and documentation for safe deployments.
• Integration & Collaboration: Enable resilient cloud connectivity between providers and on-prem systems.
• Observability & Monitoring: Implement metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and capacity dashboards.
• Stakeholder Support: Advise teams on reliability, performance, security and cost-optimized choices.
• Cost Management: Partner with Finance for cloud cost visibility, forecasting and FinOps goals.
• Continuous Improvement: Evaluate new cloud services to improve reliability and developer experience.
• On-call: Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation to support production environments.

Skills

AWS

Multi-cloud

Terraform

Python

CI/CD

Git

Networking

Security basics

FinOps

Observability

Tools

Snowflake

AliCloud

Job description

DRW, a leading diversified trading firm headquartered in Chicago, seeks a Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure across AWS, Azure, GCP, AliCloud and Snowflake. You will own reliability, security and performance, partnering with engineering, security and business teams to enable scalable cloud solutions.

You will design foundations, implement automation, manage costs with FinOps and provide on-call support.