Job Title: AWS Cloud Engineer
Location: Chicago, IL - must work onsite
Length: 6-10 months
We are seeking a hands-on Senior Cloud Engineer to support ETF platform modernization, operational resiliency, and cloud transformation initiatives. The engineer will play a critical role in designing and implementing AWS-based architectures, establishing DevOps best practices, automating infrastructure, and supporting the institutionalization of business-critical ETF tools.
The ideal candidate will combine strong AWS architecture expertise with DevOps engineering capabilities and experience building scalable, secure, highly available cloud-native platforms.
Key Responsibilities
AWS Architecture & Cloud Engineering
Design and implement scalable, secure, and resilient AWS architectures.
Lead migration and modernization of applications from legacy platforms to AWS.
Establish cloud architecture standards, patterns, and best practices.
Design networking, security, monitoring, and disaster recovery solutions.
Implement high-availability and fault-tolerant designs supporting critical ETF platforms.
Optimize cloud environments for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
DevOps & Automation
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, or similar tools.
Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and CloudFormation.
Automate environment provisioning, deployments, and configuration management.
Establish DevSecOps practices and integrate security controls into delivery pipelines.
Improve release management processes and deployment reliability.
Platform Modernization
Support modernization of ETF applications and internal business tools.
Assist in converting manually supported solutions into scalable enterprise platforms.
Collaborate with development teams to containerize and modernize applications.
Support Kubernetes/EKS-based deployment strategies where applicable.
Ability to convert/migrate legacy codebases (.net, C# etc.) to modern frameworks and automate CI/CD through pipelines
Operational Excellence
Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability frameworks.
Establish operational runbooks and support procedures.
Reduce operational and trade-processing risks through automation and platform improvements.
Troubleshoot production issues and provide engineering support for critical applications.
Automate cost optimization and cost control mechanism
Collaboration & Leadership
Partner with business, development, architecture, and operations teams.
Provide technical leadership on cloud adoption and engineering best practices.
Mentor team members on AWS, DevOps, and automation capabilities.
Document architecture decisions, standards, and implementation approaches.
Required Skills & Experience
AWS
7+ years of cloud engineering experience with at least 5 years in AWS.
Strong hands-on experience with:
EC2
VPC
IAM
S3
Route 53
RDS/Aurora
Lambda
CloudWatch
ECS/EKS
API Gateway
SNS/SQS
Secrets Manager
KMS
DevOps & Automation
Terraform (Required)
CloudFormation
GitHub Actions / GitLab CI / Jenkins
Docker
Kubernetes / EKS
Linux administration
Python, Bash, or PowerShell scripting
Monitoring & Reliability
CloudWatch
Grafana
Prometheus
ELK/OpenSearch
Application performance and infrastructure monitoring