Cloud Engineer
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 60290, USA
Listed on 2026-10-15
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IT/Tech
Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Systems Engineer
As a Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for the deployment, integration, and management of private, public, and/or hybrid cloud platform services supporting the development of complex analytical applications at enterprise scale. You'll demonstrate networking and security protocol knowledge to ensure a safe and scalable environment, while protecting accessibility to data assets residing within. You will leverage your expertise in developing infrastructure as code using scripts, templates, blueprints, workflows, CI/CD orchestration tools, and other automation technologies in the spirit of speed and consistency.
Continuous collaboration will be an important aspect of this role as you will work with a variety of architects and peer engineering teams to ensure our cloud solutions meet the organization's needs.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
- Use infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform to provision and support reliable, fault tolerant and scalable cloud-based storage, compute, and networking services
- Build metrics and monitoring solutions to track latency and overall health of the system.
- Work with data governance and data lake teams to implement access controls to data and services
- Work closely with Security and SRE teams
- Follow information security guidelines to secure all cloud-based resources.
- Create and maintain source code repository and gated CI/CD pipelines to build, package and deploy applications
- Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
- Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
- Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer
- Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for Dev Ops operation
- Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
- Experience working on an Azure based infrastructure
- Design and implement high-volume data ingestion and streaming pipelines using Open Source frameworks like Apache Spark, Flink, Nifi, and Kafka on ADO (Azure Dev Ops)
- Excellent understanding of Ruby, Python, Perl, Java, Json Yaml, IaC, Terraform
- Configuration and managing databases such as MySQL, Mongo
- Excellent troubleshooting
- Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services
- Awareness of critical concepts in Dev Ops and Agile principles
- End to end implementation of CICD pipelines from scratch
Bachelor's Degree/equivalent in computer science, engineering, or information systems and/or equivalent formal training or work experience. Three (3) years’ experience in cloud engineering or related field. Experience providing leadership in a general planning or consulting setting. Strong oral and written communication skills. A related advanced degree may offset the related experience requirements.
(Sponsorship for this position level is not available)
Cloud Engineer III:Bachelor's Degree/equivalent in computer science, engineering, or information systems and/or equivalent formal training or work experience. Five (5) years’ experience in cloud engineering or related field. Experience providing leadership in a general planning or consulting setting. Some experience as a leader or a senior member of multi-function project teams. Strong oral and written communication skills. A related advanced degree may offset the related experience requirements.
CloudEngineer Lead:
Bachelor's Degree/equivalent in computer science, engineering, or information systems and/or equivalent formal training or work experience. Seven (7) years’ experience in cloud engineering or related field. Experience providing leadership in a general planning or consulting setting. Experience as a leader or a senior member of multi-function project teams. Strong oral and written communication skills. A related advanced degree may offset the related experience requirements.
Domicile/ Relocation Information
- This position can be located anywhere in the United States. The ability to work remotely within the United States may be available based on business need.
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