Senior Cloud Engineer

StoneX Group • Chicago, IL

124d • $90,000 - $140,000

About The Position

As a Senior Cloud Engineer at StoneX, you will play a critical role in designing, building, and maintaining scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure. You will contribute to the evolution of our cloud platforms—primarily Azure—while exploring and integrating new technologies to meet strategic business goals. This role demands deep technical expertise in cloud architecture, infrastructure-as-code, automation, and cloud-native services, along with strong collaboration across security, development, product, and operations teams. You will be a technical leader and hands-on contributor who influences best practices and helps drive the maturity and innovation of our cloud capabilities, ensuring our infrastructure is resilient, cost-effective, and aligned with engineering and business needs.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in cloud engineering (preferable Azure), infrastructure, or platform operations.
• A history of being self-motivated and capable of solving problems with minimal oversight.
• Deep knowledge across compute storage, database, and containerization services within Azure.
• Experience in cost optimization and FinOps practices, including managing commitment-based discounts.
• Expertise in building infrastructure using Terraform or other modern infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• Solid understanding of enterprise cloud governance, access control, policy enforcement, and regulatory compliance.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to drive cross-functional initiatives in a complex platform environment.
• A focus on reliability, automation, and measurable service outcomes.

Nice To Haves

• Obsessed with process/team/individual improvement.
• Desire to drive a culture of excellence and results.
• Awareness of on-prem technologies that co-exist in a hybrid cloud environment.
• Experience evaluating and implementing alternative cloud solutions in a multi-provider environment.
• History of leading large-scale platform upgrades, service migrations, or modernization efforts.
• Demonstrated ability to scale infrastructure to meet growing business demand while managing cost and complexity.
• Experience working in an enterprise setting with layered architectural governance and security oversight.
• A people-first collaboration style that supports personal and team growth and development.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure solutions in Azure and other public cloud platforms as required.
• Lead the adoption and implementation of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) to enable reproducible, scalable, and auditable infrastructure provisioning.
• Collaborate with platform and DevOps teams to integrate automation, containerization, observability, and developer experience tools.
• Evaluate and recommend cloud services and technologies aligned with architectural principles and business requirements.
• Ensure infrastructure stability, performance, security, and cost optimization through proactive monitoring, patching, and incident management.
• Partner with security, compliance, and architecture teams to enforce governance policies and implement controls across environments.
• Serve as a technical advisor and mentor to other cloud engineers, contributing to knowledge sharing, training, and technical reviews.
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response and root cause analysis for infrastructure-related issues.

Benefits

• Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits dependent on the position.
• Incentive compensation plan eligibility based on business performance and management recommendations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees