Cloud Engineer

Company: Uturndata
Location: Chicago
Posted on: April 19, 2025

Job Description:

Uturn Data Solutions is a technology services firm helping businesses achieve digital transformation through the use of cloud technologies. Recognized by Crain's as one of Chicago's fastest growing companies in 2024 (#9) and 2023 (#11), we are market leaders in leveraging the power of AWS to accelerate innovation, increase operational efficiency and help our clients future proof their businesses.As one of the top AWS partners in the Midwest we specialize in AWS Migration, designing and implementing cloud native architectures, building analytics platforms and enabling automation through DevOps. An Advanced Tier AWS Consulting Partner and AWS Well Architected Partner, Uturn is headquartered in Chicago with offices in the River North neighborhood.Uturn Data Solutions is looking for a Cloud Engineer with excellent interpersonal skills who has proven experience using DevOps methodologies to implement solutions in AWS. The Cloud Engineer, based in Chicago, will be supporting senior technical resources on client engagements to help lead the way for cloud adoption.If you are looking for the right opportunity to advance your career and want to work with a group of highly skilled, committed and energetic professionals to solve big challenges using cloud technology, this role is for you.We are looking for sharp, disciplined, and self-motivated individuals who have a passion for utilizing cloud solutions to solve real world business challenges for our customers. In collaboration with other leaders in the firm, you will focus on designing, building, migrating and optimizing solutions leveraging AWS services.What You'll Do

• Leverage common Infrastructure as Code tools to define AWS environments and workloads
• Utilize Configuration Management and Continuous Deployment tools to orchestrate delivery of applications to stateless and stateful stacks and resources
• Migrate operations of bare metal and VM hosted applications to containers and serverless.
• Migrate operations of non scalable and/or non highly available platforms to a high availability and scalable architecture (web applications, databases, storage, etc).
• Migrate on-premise data and applications to AWS
• Implement process automations for application and platform operations and delivery.
• Implement optimized AWS architectures that account for cost, availability, and scalability needsEducation
  • Bachelor's Degree strongly preferred
  • Certifications related to cloud provider strongly preferred (or attained in first 90 days)ExperienceBusiness Skills
    • 2-3 years of experience with a major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
    • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (CloudFormation, Terraform, ARM Templates)
    • Scripting experience on Linux or Windows (Bash, Python, PowerShell) including use of the AWS SDK or CLI
    • Experience managing common security controls (IAM, Least Privilege, Firewall, Patching, Antivirus, etc.)
    • Experience with traditional VM, container (Docker, Kubernetes), or serverless based architectures
    • Understanding of enterprise, network, system and application-level architecture
    • Experience utilizing common source control systems (git, VSTS, SVN) and project structure/organization
    • 2-3 years system engineering/administration experience on Linux or Windows
    • Experience with CI practices with a common tool (Jenkins, Travis, CircleCI, Bamboo)
    • Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of staff and managementGreat benefits and perks including flexible hours, excellent medical, Dental/Vision, LTD/STD/AD&D/Life coverage, on-going training, 401k, River North location or home office, transit reimbursement, and on-going technical training!
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