Cloud Security Engineer

📋 Job Overview

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.

Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets.

We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it's how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.

🏢 About DRW

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.

Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets.

We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it's how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.

🎯 The Role

We are seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to work with various business units across the firm to empower our technologists to deliver secure cloud infrastructure and cloud integrated solutions. The position will work with the technology teams to ensure the cloud environments we use and configure are done so in a secure manner. You will also be responsible for defining global standards and guidelines to direct secure cloud development. A successful candidate will be able to establish base guidelines, implement security controls, review architecture and validate this is done in a repeatable and automatable fashion. While ensuring that the overall cloud presence of DRW is as secure as it can be.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Review and audit AWS/GCP/Azure environments spanning across multiple business units and recommend changes to reduce risk and improve security.
• Support development and work with technologists across the firm to unify cloud security efforts.
• Integrate services and access routes in a data intensive hybrid cloud environment.
• Provide architectural recommendations and support to ensure cloud and Kubernetes environments are securely deployed, including controls for role-based access, workload identity, network policies, secrets, container images, admission policies, runtime protection, logging, and monitoring.
• Provide recommendations and create working examples of secure hybrid cloud implementations.
• Helping business units across the firm to securely migrate on-premise designed software to the appropriate cloud technologies.
• Stay abreast of new developments in the areas of cloud technology, security, services, and networking.
• Work with vendors and vendor solutions to evaluate products, produce recommendations for the firm, and educate internal clients.
• Have a strong grasp of technologies that can be leveraged across both cloud and on-premise deployments (user supported authorization, etc).
• Identify and analyze vulnerabilities and work with the various business units on remediation.
• Continuously assess and enhance cloud privilege models to ensure least privilege access to data and services.
• Respond to any security related incidents.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience required.
• Relevant cloud certifications are a plus.
• Strong knowledge of cloud encryption technologies including key management such as (KMS, HSM, etc).
• 5+ years of experience working with Amazon Web Services, with exposure to other cloud vendors such as Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.
• A strong command of infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, and related technologies.
• Proficient with containerization and Kubernetes in Linux environments, including Kubernetes architecture, workloads, networking, managed services, security configuration assessment, vulnerability remediation, and automated guardrails using infrastructure-as-code and policy-as-code.
• Proficient with at least one applicable programming language (Python, Go, Javascript, etc).
• Experience with automation in the cloud, in addition to services used in loosely coupled serverless architectures, such as Lambda, SQS, API Gateway, and DynamoDB.
• Knowledge of cloud security best practices and cloud based controls.
• Familiarity with security considerations, capabilities, and regulatory adherence for services across cloud providers.
• Working knowledge of networking in hybrid cloud environments.
• Must work well in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment and have strong work ethic and initiative.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve production problems while making sensible decisions in times of stress.
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills and documentation/knowledge management skills.

🎁 Benefits

The annual base salary range for this position is $150,000 USD to $200,000 USD depending on the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and relevant skill set. The position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition, DRW offers a comprehensive suite of employee benefits including group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance, 401k (with discretionary employer match), short and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, health savings accounts, and flexible spending accounts.