Cloud Engineer


Chicago
Permanent
USD175000 - USD250000
Financial Technology
PR/534407_1740118443
Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer

A global hedge fund is looking to bring on a Cloud Engineer to their team.

Salary: 175,000 - 250,000 base salary with annual discretionary bonus.

Responsibilities:

  • Mentor team members and manage public cloud environments
  • Collaborate with developers and stakeholders for cloud solutions
  • Automate and optimize infrastructure and application deployment
  • Develop self-service cloud capabilities
  • Implement and support cloud applications and systems
  • Promote cloud adoption and provide a platform as a product
  • Participate in on-call rotation and maintenance

Tech Stack:

  • AWS, Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Linux, Windows, Containerd, Podman, OCI, Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos, OpenTelemetry

Technical Fit:

  • 7+ years in large-scale cloud services (AWS preferred)
  • Bachelor's in engineering or related field
  • Expert in infrastructure automation (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform)
  • Strong in AWS products, Kubernetes, cloud-native security, FinOps, automation scripting (Python, Bash), Linux, networking, container technologies, disaster recovery, CI/CD tools

Bonus Points:

  • Cloud architecture and strategy experience
  • Open-source contributions
  • AWS, Kubernetes certifications
  • Experience with Ansible, AI/ML infrastructure, platform engineering

Role must sit in firms Chicago office.

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