Cloud Engineer​/Fintech​/Migration

Overview

A leading fintech company that operates regulated trading platforms connecting millions of users globally to both traditional and digital financial markets is looking to bring on a Cloud Engineer for an on‑premises to AWS Cloud migration. Their infrastructure powers mission‑critical exchange systems requiring institutional‑grade security, low‑latency performance, and 24/7 reliability. As they expand their cloud‑native architecture, they seek engineers who can bridge traditional infrastructure expertise with modern cloud practices.

Key responsibilities include:

• Migrate and modernize critical infrastructure from on‑premises to AWS and Kubernetes.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, operations, and security teams to architect scalable, observable cloud solutions while maintaining high‑availability standards required in financial services.
• Build infrastructure, write IaC, and migrate workloads (50–60% hands‑on work).
• Collaborate with teams on architecture and participate in on‑call rotation and incident response (10% time).
• Design and implement observability platforms (Cloud Watch, Datadog, Elastic Stack). 20% focus on observability & automation.

• 5+ years of experience in Cloud, Infrastructure, or Dev Ops engineering roles.
• Proven success migrating Linux‑based workloads from on‑premises to AWS or Kubernetes.
• Deep hands‑on knowledge of Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience designing complex cloud solutions in AWS using Cloud Foundation best practices.
• Strong background in networking (VPCs, Transit Gateways, Route 53, load balancing, VPNs).
• IaC implementation and Git Ops workflows.
• Experience with observability platforms (Cloud Watch, Datadog, Elastic Stack, or similar).
• Proficiency with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerization strategies.

• Experience in financial services, exchanges, or other high‑availability, low‑latency environments.
• Prior work managing on‑premises infrastructure (Nutanix, Puppet, Foreman).
• Experience with service mesh solutions (Istio, Linkerd, AWS App Mesh).
• Knowledge of API management via AWS API Gateway and Kong.
• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, Sys Ops Administrator, Dev Ops Engineer).
• Scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go.
• Experience with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, Bamboo) and Bitbucket.
• Startup experience or being part of small, agile teams.

• 50% AWS Cloud Infrastructure (Terraform, EKS, networking)
• 30% Migration & Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• 20% Observability & Automation (Datadog, Cloud Watch, CI/CD)

Chicago, IL – $–$ per year – Full‑time – Mid‑Senior level.

No Sponsorship or Visa Transfer available at this time.