Enterprise Cloud & Data Management Engineer

Introduction

UIC is among the nation’s preeminent urban public research universities, a Carnegie RU/VH research institution, and the largest university in Chicago. UIC serves over 34,000 students, comprising one of the most diverse student bodies in the nation and is designated as a Minority Serving Institution (MSI), an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPSI) and a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI).

Proactively maintains UI Health's Enterprise computing environment which includes on premises and cloud computing systems and footprint to ensure high availability of mission critical applications. This involves working with premises and cloud design, database design, Enterprise storage design, Enterprise backup design.

• Participate in planning, developing and implementing Linux and Windows environments needed for Enterprise solutions and tools
• Participate in planning, developing and implementing cloud strategy
• Maintain cloud code repositories for the creation, modification and management of cloud resources
• Collaborate with security administrators to secure cloud infrastructure
• Participate in planning long term cloud infrastructure strategy
• Maintain change management processes
• Understand, design, and deploy cloud services based on application needs
• Participate in planning, developing and implementing database architecture and footprint
• Participate in planning, developing, implementing, and supporting enterprise storage
• Participate in planning, developing and implementing Enterprise backup environment
• Work with team members to implement cost control strategies
• Understand cloud networking
• Able to troubleshoot code, network, and systems for both cloud and on premises deployments
• Work with other teams to migrate on premise workloads to cloud services
• Responsible for maintaining cloud infrastructure availability
• On call operational support and coverage
• Help maintain onsite systems
• Create proper documentation and run book of all system builds and processes.
• Manage problems and problem escalations in accordance with ITIL standards.
• Monitors system performance, recommends and implements adjustments to improve efficiency
• Maintain awareness of emerging products and trends and be an educational resource to other team members
• Create proper documentation and run book of all system builds and processes.

• Bachelor Degree within Computer Science or closely related field of study
• Minimum 1 years of professional IT experience within Database Design and Administration which includes Demonstrated experience in the design, creation and implementation of databases, including data models, logical and physical databases, data dictionaries and schemas, validation checks and data security.
• Demonstrated experience building, configuring and maintaining enterprise cloud computing envrionments and windows and linux environments.

• Minimum of 2 years progressively more responsible IT experience in design implementation, maintenance, monitoring, performance analysis, trouble shooting, problem resolution, and user assistance required of cloud computing environments, Linux and Windows environments, SQL databases, Enterprise Storage, and Enterprise Backup.