Cloud Engineer Specialist

Build the market that brings the future into focus

Rothera is building a world-changing prediction market in partnership with some of the financial industry's leading global brokerage and trading firms.

By empowering traders to take positions on the events that shape our world, Rothera’s platform harnesses the scale and power of financial markets to produce timely, unique, and effective information discovery for leaders and decision makers to ask and answer their most important questions.

Rothera operates at the frontier, generating market-driven forecasts that turn intuition into insight.

About the Role

The Cloud Engineer Specialist serves as a key technical contributor, building and evolving Rothera's cloud infrastructure. This role is central to implementing a resilient cloud environment essential for powering our high-stakes trading business. You will work closely with the Lead Cloud Engineer to execute on architectural goals, collaborating across Product, Engineering, Security, and Risk to enable high-performance applications. You are a hands-on builder who ensures our systems are scalable, secure, and highly observable.

What You’ll Do

1. Build and Manage
• Implement and Maintain: Execute the development of a secure, scalable cloud platform. Deploy cloud services (compute, storage, networking, database) following established best practices for governance and security.
• IaC Execution: Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), focusing on modularity and the use of version-controlled repositories.
• CI/CD Optimization: Maintain and optimize robust CI/CD pipelines that allow development teams to deploy frequently and safely.
• Cost Efficiency: Monitor usage reports to help right-size compute instances and identify opportunities for architectural tuning to manage cloud spend.
• Technical Support: Serve as a core technical resource for troubleshooting infrastructure-related blockers for the wider engineering team.
2. Monitor 
• Observability: Configure integrated observability layers (metrics, logs, and tracing) to ensure visibility into service-level health.
• Incident Response: Implement and refine automated alerts; participate in the triage of performance issues and infrastructure failures through deep monitoring analysis.
• Capacity Reporting: Track and report on monthly performance, resource availability, and capacity metrics to ensure the platform scales ahead of demand.
3. Security & Compliance 
• Identity & Access: Implement least-privilege IAM models and manage Permission Boundaries and dynamic IAM roles.
• DevSecOps: Integrate security tooling (CSPM, vulnerability scanning) into CI/CD workflows to catch misconfigurations before they reach production.
• Secrets Management: Maintain integrations for dynamic, short-lived credentials and ensure the automation of SSL/TLS certificate rotations.
• Compliance Support: Assist in gathering evidence and implementing controls for regulated environments (SOC2, FINRA).

What You’ll Bring

• A Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, such as Computer Science or Software Engineering, is preferred.
• 3+ years of professional experience managing cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
• Experience working in highly regulated environments with strict audit and compliance requirements (SOC2, FINRA) is a plus.
• Solid experience with Terraform and automating workflows using at least one general-purpose language (Java, JavaScript, or C#).
• Proficient in Kubernetes and Docker; comfortable with GitOps workflows and managing containerized deployments.
• Experience improving monitoring stacks using Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to explain technical infrastructure concepts to peers in Engineering and Product.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Benefits & Compensation

This position has a base salary of $125,000-$150,000 per year. 

Rothera is dedicated to advancing the careers and personal wellbeing of our team members. We are continuously exploring ways to support our employees holistically, including a 401(k) plan with employer match, health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and eligible dependents, paid time off, and much more.

Why you should join the mission

If you want a critical role in a path-breaking company, you belong here. 

Rothera values initiative from individuals of all backgrounds. We are proud to be an inclusive workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

This is a full-time, in-person hybrid position. This position is not available for visa sponsorship now or in the future. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. on a permanent, indefinite basis.