Top Cloud Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Leads enterprise cloud engineering strategy and AWS architecture for scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-effective platforms. Designs cloud-native infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability, disaster recovery, security controls, and compliance practices. Resolves complex cross-team platform issues, leads incident analysis and audits, guides migration and modernization roadmaps, influences senior stakeholders, documents technical standards, and mentors engineers. The role supports a large-scale migration of mission-critical systems and data from on-premises environments to AWS.

Designs, manages, and maintains multi-cloud platform tooling, CI/CD pipelines, Azure DevOps integrations, infrastructure automation, and deployment monitoring. Partners with infrastructure, development, security, and Agile product teams to improve delivery, implement security controls, troubleshoot deployments, and support application platforms. The role also administers delivery environments, develops automation frameworks, evaluates emerging technologies, and helps demonstrate practical technical solutions.

Designs, deploys, and operates scalable cloud networking infrastructure, including VPCs, VNets, hybrid connectivity, transit topologies, DNS, edge networking, and security controls. Requires strong traditional networking expertise, cloud platform experience, Terraform automation, Kubernetes networking knowledge, troubleshooting skills, and packet-level analysis. Collaborates with cross-functional teams, contributes to design and code reviews, and mentors junior engineers.

Designs, develops, tests, deploys, monitors, and supports enterprise integrations using Oracle Integration Cloud. Connects Oracle Cloud Applications, on-premises Oracle systems, and third-party platforms. Responsibilities include integration architecture, API management, REST and SOAP services, Visual Builder and Process Cloud applications, scripting, security implementation, troubleshooting, documentation, and migration from Oracle SOA Suite. The role also supports integration lifecycle ownership and may involve DevOps, CI/CD, event-driven OCI integrations, and Oracle database connectivity.

Designs and operates internal cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, Azure infrastructure, Kubernetes environments, and infrastructure-as-code using Pulumi. Builds self-service deployment capabilities, secure identity integrations, observability, governance, and FinOps practices. Partners with application, security, IAM, SRE, and developer teams to improve platform reliability, developer experience, delivery speed, and cloud cost management.

Design, secure, and scale GCP cloud infrastructure supporting event-driven services, AI models, and automated releases. Maintain infrastructure as code and CI/CD automation, manage access controls and encryption, remediate penetration-test and vulnerability findings, and own monitoring, dashboards, on-call response, incident management, and performance improvements.

Architect, scale, and secure AWS infrastructure using IaC and automation. Build self-service templates, maintain FedRAMP-ready configurations, support incident response, optimize performance with Datadog, and mentor junior engineers.

Leads the design, automation, deployment, and optimization of secure hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Develops Terraform modules and CI/CD pipelines, executes cloud migrations, implements networking and security best practices, troubleshoots infrastructure, and creates documentation. The role also mentors engineers, guides clients through modernization programs, and supports scalable, resilient, and cost-optimized enterprise environments.

Design, automate, secure, and operate multi-cloud platform environments across Azure and AWS. Build infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, containerized services, observability, security controls, and enterprise data-platform integrations. Troubleshoot incidents, improve resiliency and performance, support governance and analytics services, document architecture and procedures, and provide technical leadership while collaborating with engineering, cybersecurity, data, architecture, and government stakeholders.

Develops and supports Azure, Power Platform, Power BI, and Databricks solutions for enterprise reporting, analytics, and cloud modernization. Responsibilities include migrating legacy systems, designing dashboards and data products, analyzing complex datasets, defining data requirements, troubleshooting performance issues, and collaborating with data engineering, architecture, science, and stakeholder teams in an Agile environment.

Designs and develops Python-based reliability tools and cloud solutions on AWS using Terraform. Builds automation, observability, CI/CD pipelines, and testing frameworks; defines SRE standards, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets; participates in incident response, on-call support, root-cause analysis, and postmortems. Collaborates across Agile teams to improve platform reliability, reduce toil, optimize cloud costs, and advance cloud-native engineering practices.

Design, build, operate, and scale secure, reliable, cost-efficient cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure. Develop infrastructure as code, support Kubernetes and microservice environments, collaborate with engineering teams, participate in on-call and incident response, automate operational toil, reduce technical debt, and improve platform reliability using AI-assisted development tools.

Provide senior-level ownership for AWS cloud platform operations, automation, and reliability. Support infrastructure provisioning, EKS/Kubernetes operations, EC2/AMI lifecycle, observability, incident response, patching, cost optimization, CI/CD automation, documentation, runbooks, and mentoring. Participate in on-call rotation, incident handling, and cross-team collaboration to ensure secure, scalable cloud operations.

Provide customer-facing technical management and support for Nokia telecom cloud network environments. Configure and troubleshoot OpenStack and Kubernetes platforms, especially Nokia Container Services, across telco, distributed, and edge clouds. Support mobile core technologies, networking, monitoring, automation, cybersecurity, escalations, project coordination, and 24/7 emergency on-call operations. Communicate technical issues clearly and coordinate cross-functional resources to resolve customer problems.

Design, operate, and automate hybrid infrastructure across Azure and on-premises hyperconverged environments. Build infrastructure-as-code solutions with Terraform and Ansible, develop reusable platforms, troubleshoot issues across cloud and infrastructure layers, and embed SRE practices. Partner with application, security, and business teams on resilient architecture, document standards and runbooks, support incident response, and reduce reliance on managed-service providers through automation and monitoring.

Designs, implements, and maintains secure, scalable public and private cloud infrastructure. Responsibilities include cloud architecture, performance and cost optimization, troubleshooting, automation, security policy enforcement, disaster recovery, documentation, project leadership, and mentoring junior engineers. Collaborates with development, operations, and security teams to deliver reliable cloud solutions in an enterprise healthcare environment.

Leads enterprise Azure and multi-cloud infrastructure strategy, architecture, modernization, and delivery. Designs infrastructure-as-code solutions with Terraform, automates configuration using Ansible, and builds GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines. Establishes cloud governance, security, networking, resilience, and operational standards; leads complex infrastructure initiatives; directs an MSP engineering team; manages escalations, service quality, and SLAs; and mentors engineering staff.

Participate in AHEAD’s associate development program and complete technical training focused on public cloud solutions. Develop cloud engineering and consulting skills through certifications, shadowing, teamwork, problem-solving, and client project delivery. Candidates must have working knowledge of cloud solutions, be willing to travel more than 50% of the time, and possess existing U.S. work authorization without requiring visa sponsorship.

Designs and supports hybrid cloud networking infrastructure across Azure environments, including hub-and-spoke, Virtual WAN, VPN, ExpressRoute, routing, and DNS. Leads infrastructure automation, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability, governance, and security initiatives. Troubleshoots complex infrastructure issues, develops architecture standards, documents solutions, mentors engineers, conducts code reviews, and partners with technical and business stakeholders. Participates in on-call rotations and occasional after-hours deployments.

Designs, integrates, and maintains scalable cloud-based systems and services. Responsibilities include cloud architecture, systems integration, verification and validation, requirements analysis, monitoring distributed systems and virtual machines, performance optimization, and resolving functionality, configuration, and integration issues.

Develop and operate Airbnb’s large-scale cloud infrastructure platform, including Kubernetes, developer APIs and CLIs, autoscaling, capacity management, and cloud automation. Build secure, reliable, scalable, and highly available distributed systems using public cloud technologies. Optimize existing infrastructure, improve performance and operational efficiency, troubleshoot production systems, and collaborate across engineering teams and open-source communities.

Design, operate, and evolve production GCP infrastructure, including GKE clusters, networking, IAM, shared services, and Terraform automation. Troubleshoot complex Kubernetes, Linux, networking, DNS, and distributed-systems issues; improve observability, security, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency. Lead upgrades, migrations, architecture improvements, technical reviews, and mentorship while partnering with Platform Engineering, SRE, and Security teams.

Owns end-to-end FinOps for a multi-account AWS platform, including forecasting, budgeting, cost attribution, anomaly detection, rightsizing, chargebacks, and financial reporting. The role governs AI/ML costs such as Amazon Bedrock token consumption, implements cost controls, supports federal stakeholders, and ensures compliance with FedRAMP, FISMA, and NIST requirements. It also provides funding threshold notifications and optimization recommendations across cloud and data platforms.

Execute Microsoft 365, Exchange, Google Workspace, and file platform migrations from discovery through deployment, cutover, validation, and handoff. Configure migration tools, troubleshoot identity, permissions, mail flow, and endpoint issues, and document technical outcomes. Coordinate with project managers on scope, schedules, budgets, and risks while supporting clients and operations. The role requires regular monthly travel and off-hours work for upgrades and migrations.

Own Salesforce Marketing Cloud technical development, including data extensions, SQL segmentation, journeys, automations, APIs, integrations, personalization, QA, governance, compliance, reporting, and data quality. Maintain Marketing Cloud Connect and Knak integrations, protect healthcare-related data, manage consent workflows, and ensure accurate data flows across Salesforce and reporting platforms. Partner closely with Lifecycle Marketing and Marketing Analytics teams across multiple brands and business units.