Senior Systems​/Cloud Engineer

Who May Apply:Open to all qualified applicants

Date Posted:10/1/2026

Closing Date:10/15/2026

Position Salary Range:$78,759 - $129,894 / annually

The Office of Attorney General Keith Ellison has a clear mission: we help Minnesotans afford their lives and live with dignity, safety, and respect. We are a dynamic group of dedicated professionals who choose public service as a calling, and we are actively and intentionally committed to supporting an internal culture that affirms that calling. The Office is one of Minnesota’s largest public law offices and as of 2026, has been recognized as a Top Workplace Minnesota six years in a row and Top Workplace USA five years in a row.

• Design, engineer, configure, and administer the AGO's cloud and on premises infrastructure, including Azure, AWS, Windows Server, virtualization platforms (VMware/Hyper V), storage systems, and identity services.
• Implement and maintain governance, security baselines, monitoring, logging, alerting, and access policies across infrastructure to ensure compliant, reliable, and secure operations.
• Lead modernization and architecture improvements by planning and executing cloud migrations, resiliency enhancements, lifecycle management, and platform upgrades.
• Manage and optimize backup, replication, and disaster recovery configurations using Azure and Veeam to ensure recoverability of critical AGO systems.
• Serve as a senior technical escalation point for high complexity incidents involving servers, cloud services, identity platforms, storage, virtualization, and backups; conduct root cause analysis and lead remediation efforts.
• Develop automation solutions using Power Shell, CLI, Infrastructure as Code principles, and cloud APIs to improve consistency, reduce manual effort, and enhance operational reliability.
• Monitor infrastructure performance by building dashboards, establishing baselines, identifying early degradation, and implementing proactive performance tuning or corrective actions.
• Maintain and enhance directory services, identity integrations (Entra , Conditional Access, MFA), certificates, and related security components supporting AGO's hybrid environment.
• Coordinate closely with security, application, and networking teams to ensure that infrastructure changes, cloud configurations, and system updates align with AGO and statewide security standards.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, platform updates, and industry best practices, and apply relevant advancements to AGO infrastructure to support ongoing modernization and efficiency.
• Plan and execute high impact infrastructure changes or migrations that require senior level judgment, careful risk assessment, and cross team communication.

• Provide technical leadership by contributing to architectural discussions, mentoring IT staff, and communicating complex concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

This position is eligible for a hybrid work environment (combination of required in-office work and optional telework) after successful completion of onboarding and training.

• Degree in information technology, information systems, or closely related field AND four or more years of directly related work experience
• OR six or more years of directly related work experience
• Experience administering and supporting Azure and/or AWS cloud environments, including identity and access management, compute, networking, storage (Azure Files, Azure Blob, SharePoint), governance, billing, and monitoring.
• Professional experience administering and troubleshooting Windows Server, virtualization platforms (VMware/Hyper‑V), storage technologies, certificates, and enterprise backup solutions (e.g., Veeam, Comm…