Cloud Security Engineer

About the role

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.

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.

What you’ll be doing:

- 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.