Platform Engineer, C/FICCO

<p><strong>DRW</strong> 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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. <strong>DRW</strong> is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.</p> <p><strong><u>About the Role</u></strong></p> <p>We're looking for a&nbsp;Platform Engineer&nbsp;to join our Platform Infrastructure team supporting Cumberland and FICCO's trading operations. In this role, you'll be the&nbsp;driving force behind how we deploy, observe, and scale our systems - making deployments faster, system health more visible, and infrastructure more self-service.</p> <p>Your&nbsp;focus will be on automating deployment patterns, building observability that&nbsp;actually surfaces signal over noise, and evolving our platforms to meet the demands of&nbsp;mission-critical trading.</p> <p>This role will be for our Chicago office.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>What You'll Do:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li>Converge and improve application deployment patterns across containerized and non-containerized workloads</li> <li>Build self-service infrastructure provisioning using Terraform/Terragrunt and Ansible</li> <li>Drive CI/CD excellence and advocate for modern software delivery practices</li> <li>Enhance monitoring and alerting to enable proactive capacity management and early failure detection - without the noise</li> <li>Research and implement technologies that improve container orchestration, workload management, and system visibility</li> <li>Learn and support in-house tools for infrastructure management and deployment workflows</li> <li>Participate in on-call rotation to resolve trade-critical issues and identify opportunities for automation</li> <li>Maintain system security through regular patching, reporting, and compliance with security standards</li> <li>Challenge the status quo and advocate for mea