Cloud Engineer

About ABN AMRO Clearing USA LLC

ABN AMRO Clearing USA LLC (AAC-USA) is a subsidiary of ABN AMRO Clearing Bank N.V. We are a global clearing firm that provides an integrated suite of financial services to professional trading participants in the global financial market.

The core service offering consists of clearing, execution, stock borrowing and lending, settlement. AAC-USA has a Global Reach through direct and indirect clearing memberships to over 90 of the world’s leading exchanges. Our international network provides comprehensive market access to exchange-listed instruments such as stocks, futures, and options. ABN AMRO Clearing USA LLC-Member FINRA, NFA, FIA and SIPC.

The AWS Cloud Platform Engineer is part of the Public Cloud Platform team. This is a global team that works on establishing the right landing ground for new workloads on AWS to build upon.

The team consists of 6 other AWS Cloud Platform Engineers that work on making a safe, compliant and consumable platform. You work together with other engineers and colleagues to help support the move from on-premise way of working to the AWS Cloud Dev Ops way of working while expanding the functionality of AWS platform.

We’re looking for an AWS Cloud Platform Engineer with advanced Python software engineering skills—someone who thrives on challenges and is eager to join a global team shaping the future of cloud technology. In this role, you’ll help design and evolve a secure, automated, and scalable AWS platform that enables teams worldwide to innovate faster and smarter as well as support local software engineers with migration of the their workloads to AWS cloud.

This position is based in our Chicago office and requires a min of 3 days per week onsite in office.

• Design and evolve AWS landing zones that serve as the secure, automated foundation for global workloads.
• Collaborate with a world-class team of AWS engineers to deliver a safe, scalable, and developer-friendly cloud platform.
• Build powerful automations using Everything as Code and Infrastructure as Code components to reduce ticket-ops operations and accelerate innovation using your software engineering practices.
• Drive the cloud-first transformation by guiding teams from on-premise to AWS and Dev Ops practices.
• Continuously innovate—expand platform capabilities and introduce cutting-edge solutions to meet business needs.
• Implement governance frameworks for automated compliance checks against internal risk standards.
• Standardize infrastructure components to ensure consistency and reliability across workloads.
• Develop automated testing strategies to guarantee quality and resilience.
• Scale the AWS platform globally, expanding into new regions to support business growth.
• Lead migration efforts from on-premises to AWS cloud in line with strategic roadmaps.
• Collaborate with developers to translate software requirements into robust cloud solutions.
• Act as the local ambassador for the department—communicating effectively with stakeholders and representing the team.

• 5+ years Deep knowledge and experience of AWS with a deep understanding of building complex cloud infrastructure using AWS CDK. Hands‑on experience with wide variety of AWS services (networking, governance, integration, compute) is required.
• 5+ years Strong software development skills in Python (Python development experience). Clean code is not a mystery to you. We are AWS CDK‑first company. Having experience in Terraform is appreciated, but strong software development skills are required.
• 2+ AWS Serverless services (Step functions, Lambda, SNS)
• Good understanding of IT networking
• Professional experience using CICD pipelines (Jenkins, AWS Code Build and Code Pipeline)
• Professional experience with automated software testing
• Proficiency in GIT
• Good understanding of observability tooling (eg: Splunk)
• Computer science, or equivalent experience
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to operate independently, part of larger team language
• Experience with stakeholder interaction/education

• Financial services industry experience
• Experience working on global teams

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