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About the Role
This role offers the opportunity to take ownership of projects and drive efficiency improvements. You will collaborate with Trading, Development, Infrastructure, and Operations teams to design and implement cloud solutions, automate infrastructure as code, enhance cloud governance and security, and monitor hybrid-cloud environments.
Responsibilities
- Ensure cloud services are leveraged to their full potential (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and best practices are followed.
- Help manage public cloud growth and continuously improve Akuna’s hybrid-cloud operating model.
- Evaluate proposed solution architectures and provide recommendations.
- Provision, configure, upgrade, and monitor technologies such as Kubernetes (EKS and on-premise), Spark, Kafka, and other large-scale distributed databases.
- Automate infrastructure management and development pipelines with tools like Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins and GitLab.
- Explore new technologies in the cloud-native/container ecosystem.
- Work with Infrastructure and Development teams to monitor systems, clusters and cloud deployments to detect errors and monitor performance.
- Adhere to the engineering mindset of creating and maintaining performant and reliable production systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, SRE, DevOps, or related infrastructure roles.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification preferred.
- Deep experience deploying, operating, and scaling Kubernetes in production, including on-premise clusters and Amazon EKS.
- Strong expertise designing and managing cloud infrastructure on AWS; experience with GCP is a plus.
- Advanced proficiency with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), including reusable module development, state management, and platform automation.
- Experience building and operating highly available, scalable, and secure cloud-native platforms.
- Strong knowledge of observability, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational troubleshooting.
- Proven experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices.
- Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills in distributed production environments.
- Proficiency in automation and scripting with Python, Bash, or similar languages.
- Experience with cloud-native data services, including Amazon RDS, Aurora, Redshift, and DynamoDB.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives, influence architectural decisions, and mentor engineers.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience partnering across engineering, operations, and business teams.
- The ability to react quickly and accurately to rapidly changing market conditions, including the ability to quickly and accurately respond and/or solve math and coding problems are essential functions of the role.
Skills
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- Kubernetes
- EKS
- Spark
- Kafka
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Jenkins
- GitLab
- Python
- Bash
- Amazon RDS
- Aurora
- Redshift
- DynamoDB
Location
- Chicago
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
About the Company
- Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm focused on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data-driven solutions, and automation.
- We specialize in providing liquidity as an options market maker by offering competitive buy and sell quotes.
- We design and implement our own low latency technologies, trading strategies, and mathematical models.
- Founded in Sydney, Akuna opened its first office in Chicago in 2011.
- We now operate from additional offices in Sydney, Shanghai, London, and Singapore.
Equal Opportunity
- In addition to technical skillsets, Akuna values the unique perspectives people can bring to the table to collaboratively solve complex problems and drive Akuna forward. We want everyone to feel empowered to apply. We welcome your application and encourage you to take the first steps toward your future with us!