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About the Role
This role involves designing and implementing cloud solutions, automating infrastructure as code, improving cloud governance and security, and monitoring hybrid-cloud environments. You will ensure cloud services are leveraged to their full potential and best practices are followed, while helping to manage public cloud growth and continuously improve Akuna’s hybrid-cloud operating model.
Responsibilities
- Ensure cloud services are leveraged to their full potential (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and best practices are being followed
- Help manage our 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
- Full-time
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 with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions and automation.
- We specialise in providing liquidity as an options market maker – meaning we are committed to providing competitive quotes that we are willing to both buy and sell.
- To do this successfully we design and implement our own low latency technologies, trading strategies and mathematical models.
- At Akuna we have a flat structure, where the best idea wins.
- Our Founding Partners, including Andrew Killion, first conceptualized Akuna in their hometown of Sydney.
- They opened the firm’s first office in 2011 in the heart of the derivatives industry and the options capital of the world – Chicago.
- Today, Akuna is proud to operate from additional offices in Sydney, Shanghai, Singapore and London.
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!