Principal Cloud Engineer

4 days ago


Chicago, Illinois, United States NinjaTrader Full time
Job Description

Empowering Innovation in Trading

NinjaTrader is a leading provider of trading platforms and brokerage services, dedicated to empowering traders to take control of their financial destiny. As a Principal Cloud Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our cloud infrastructure, driving innovation, and ensuring the scalability and reliability of our high-throughput, low-latency trading application.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Cloud Engineer to join our Platform team. In this critical role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and evolving our cloud infrastructure to support our applications, services, and ever-growing scale. Your work will have a profound impact on our business's bottom line, driving down costs while enhancing performance and utilization.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and implement cloud infrastructure to support applications, services, and scale
  • Collaborate with engineering, operations, and security teams to define and implement cloud architecture for moving on-prem applications and services to cloud
  • Enhance monitoring and optimize cloud infrastructure for performance, cost, and security
  • Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines for cloud-based applications
  • Automate cloud operations and infrastructure management tasks using tools such as Terraform
  • Ensure compliance with security policies and industry standards
  • Mentor and guide peers and junior engineers in cloud infrastructure and DevOps best practices

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 10+ years of progressive engineering experience in Site Reliability or adjacent disciplines (Platform, Backend Engineering, etc.)
  • 5+ years of experience in deploying, managing, and supporting modern cloud-based environments and infrastructure like AWS/Azure/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, IaC, etc.
  • Experience supporting a 24/7 cloud-based environment via on-call
  • Exceptional troubleshooting, debugging, and diagnostic skills for cloud and web-based technologies using industry standard observability tooling and frameworks
  • Proven experience in designing, deploying, and managing large-scale cloud infrastructure
  • Strong scripting skills in languages such as Python, Bash, or equivalent
  • Deep understanding of web applications and ability to troubleshoot HTTP/HTTPS, WebSockets, TLS, DNS, TCP/IP, and similar protocols
  • In-depth knowledge of networking, security, and identity management in cloud environments
  • Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work under pressure
  • Excellent communication skills and can articulate a technical problem in a concise manner to non-technical audience

Our Core Benefits

  • Hybrid Schedule with Extra Remote Flexibility
  • Generous PTO
  • 7 Paid Holidays Annually + 5 Conditional Holidays Annually
  • 1 Service Day Annually
  • 401k with 3.5% Company Match
  • Health, Vision, Dental Coverage
  • Life and Disability Insurance Covered 100% by NinjaTrader
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for Transit and Parking
  • Gym Membership

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status.



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