Senior Cloud Engineer

About Us:Founded 20 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the DV Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 600 people operating throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016, DV Trading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users. Now, DV group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and a bourgeoning investment adviser.Overview: DV Trading is seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to lead the design, buildout, and operation of firm-wide cloud infrastructure supporting all trading desks and research platforms. This role owns core shared cloud capabilities across the firm while also providing specialized infrastructure support to the crypto desk. It requires deep expertise in cloud networking, distributed systems, and infrastructure placement, with strong engineering judgment in environments where latency, operational risk, and security posture directly impact PnL. Job Responsibilities:Firm-Wide Cloud PlatformOwn the architecture and operation of cloud infrastructure supporting latency-sensitive trading systems across all desks.Design VPC and network topologies with explicit routing, isolation, and traffic control; partner with the network team to build a robust, highly available, and latency-optimized global network, including Direct Connect to DV office locations and hybrid connectivity across cloud providers (Cloud Interconnect, VPN, Transit Gateway). Define compute placement strategies, including cluster placement groups and locality-aware scheduling.Build and maintain shared platform capabilities that enable engineering teams across the firm to self-serve reliably and safely.Own FinOps visibility and cost optimization frameworks across all trading and research workloads. Serve as the primary escalation point for cloud infrastructure incidents firm-wide, owning issues from detection through resolution. Define firm-wide observability sPlease mention the word **IMPRESSIVENESS** and tag RMTYyLjIyMC4yMzQuMjY= when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMTYyLjIyMC4yMzQuMjY=). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.