Top Systems Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Develop and maintain NetSuite customizations, configurations, financial integrations, reports, and data migrations across multiple subsidiaries. Support ERP implementations, testing, troubleshooting, user access, documentation, IPO readiness, and acquisition integrations. The role collaborates with Finance, Technology, implementation partners, and nontechnical stakeholders while supporting systems including NetSuite, Anaplan, FloQast, BigQuery, Airflow, and related financial platforms.

Lead and sustain large-scale HPC systems supporting NOAA/NWS forecasting. Manage scheduler/software stack (PBS Pro/Slurm), optimize performance and throughput, troubleshoot multi-node Linux clusters, develop scripts, and support 24/7 operations with occasional travel and on-call duties.

Leads complex control systems engineering projects across power, microgrid, water/wastewater, industrial automation, and CHP applications. Designs and evaluates DCS, PLC, instrumentation, HMI, and SCADA systems; develops technical documentation; provides client and construction support; participates in commissioning; signs and seals engineering deliverables; and supports proposals, estimating, and business development.

Design and develop balance-of-plant thermal-fluid systems for a first-of-a-kind nuclear power plant, including steam, feedwater, condensate, condenser, heat exchanger, pump, valve, piping, and auxiliary systems. Perform thermal, structural, and fluid analyses; create CAD models and documentation; coordinate with vendors; support manufacturing, testing, commissioning, regulatory submissions, and system integration. Manage bills of materials, configuration control, schedules, budgets, and cross-functional design activities through deployment.

Lead the architecture and implementation of Amplify’s design system, including reusable React components, design tokens, frontend infrastructure, documentation, and contribution workflows. Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to establish standards, accessibility practices, governance, and adoption across products. Mentor engineers, guide technical decisions, improve development workflows, and explore AI-assisted development practices.

Build and operate Node.js and TypeScript backend services using durable workflows and AI-assisted development. Define service patterns, orchestrate migrations, maintain MCP and AI workflow tooling, and improve observability through metrics, alerts, dashboards, and tracing. Handle production incidents, contribute targeted frontend changes in React and Angular, and collaborate on architecture and code reviews in a fully remote environment.

Leads systems engineering for complex spaceflight electronics, including requirements development, systems analysis, technical baseline management, verification, validation, and design reviews. Collaborates across mechanical, electrical, software, and firmware disciplines; supports program execution, customer interactions, new product development, and proposals. Requires advanced technical judgment and experience delivering aerospace hardware from concept through qualification, production, and customer delivery.

Build and own studio-wide systems that improve software quality, testing, performance, developer velocity, and infrastructure reliability. Responsibilities include functional test automation, load and chaos testing, regression analysis, device compatibility labs, build and GPU clusters, CI infrastructure, disaster recovery exercises, developer tooling, quality metrics, and technical leadership across distributed engineering teams.

Administer Red Hat and Windows servers across on-premises and AWS environments; manage performance, capacity, patching, PKI certificates, vulnerability scans, and SCAP/STIG compliance. Support audits, application vulnerability remediation, security operations, and technical issues for development, database, customer support, and external partner teams. Maintain approximately 34 servers and assist with infrastructure projects and enterprise tools.

Designs, deploys, configures, supports, and troubleshoots Esri ArcGIS Enterprise environments across on-premises, Azure, and AWS infrastructures. Responsibilities include system design, automation scripting, security, licensing, disaster recovery, backups, documentation, updates, third-party integrations, incident response, and root-cause analysis. Collaborates with geospatial, network, and development teams to support enterprise GIS systems for internal and external clients.

Leads reliability and maintainability activities across unmanned aircraft product lifecycles. Develops R&M architectures, reliability predictions, FMEA/FMECA, fault trees, reliability block diagrams, FRACAS processes, test plans, and reliability growth programs. Conducts failure investigations, corrective actions, maintenance analyses, and R&M risk mitigation. Presents analyses and compliance status to customers during milestone and design reviews, while ensuring adherence to defense reliability standards.

Lead architecture and hands-on development for cloud data optimization products and Stratusphere’s data platform. Diagnose and improve database, query, storage, networking, and workload performance across AWS, Azure, relational, analytical, search, and lakehouse systems. Build production services, integrations, testing, observability, and infrastructure automation while safely overseeing AI-assisted development. Partner with product teams, forward-deployed engineers, and customers to validate optimizations, document tradeoffs, and convert repeatable solutions into scalable platform capabilities.

Designs, builds, governs, secures, and optimizes Magna’s Azure and hybrid cloud environment. Partners with development and infrastructure teams on IaaS, PaaS, container, serverless, identity, networking, and connectivity architectures. Owns cloud governance, stability, cost management, monitoring, documentation, change management, and platform updates. Supports Microsoft 365 adoption, resolves cross-team issues, communicates service performance, and develops IT staff.

Owns engineering, administration, scaling, and reliability for Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Entra ID, and Azure Virtual Desktop environments. Serves as the Tier 3/4 escalation authority for cloud, identity, messaging, virtualization, and infrastructure issues. Designs Azure infrastructure, manages Zero Trust controls, supports SOC 2 compliance and incident response, aligns outsourced helpdesk operations, and automates tenant administration through PowerShell and Microsoft Graph API.

Owns engineering, administration, scaling, and reliability for Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Azure, and Azure Virtual Desktop environments. Serves as a Tier 3/4 escalation lead, manages identity and Zero Trust controls, supports Exchange Online and virtualization, collaborates on security and SOC 2 compliance, and automates tenant administration using PowerShell and Microsoft Graph API. The role also aligns outsourced helpdesk operations, develops SOPs, and leads complex troubleshooting and incident containment.

Build and operate AWS GovCloud infrastructure for a containerized compliance evidence pipeline. Responsibilities include Terraform-based infrastructure, CI/CD, container deployment, monitoring, incident response, immutable evidence storage, networking, secrets, TLS/PKI, autoscaling, and technical security-control documentation supporting an ATO. The role also manages secure connectivity, release traceability, capacity planning, and operational runbooks in a regulated federal environment.

Own monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis across HPC applications, schedulers, networks, storage, and hardware. Build automated solutions and support research, trading, and enterprise infrastructure. Coordinate vendors, business interfaces, and internal teams on connectivity upgrades, hardware refreshes, exchange upgrades, and infrastructure rollouts. Lead projects end to end while maintaining reliable, high-performance systems.

Designs, deploys, manages, and optimizes Microsoft Azure infrastructure and PaaS services. Responsibilities include Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Bicep, Azure DevOps automation, security and governance, monitoring, troubleshooting, production support, disaster recovery, and resiliency planning. Partners with technical teams on cloud modernization, provides senior-level guidance, and mentors cloud and Microsoft 365 staff.

Provides technical expertise for hydraulic systems and customer applications. Works with OEMs and distributors to evaluate requirements, recommend products, troubleshoot complex mechanical and electrohydraulic issues, support technical sales, and assist with testing, validation, and implementation. Develops customer documentation and training materials while collaborating with engineering, quality, manufacturing, and sales teams. The role requires approximately 20% domestic travel and supports global engineering collaboration.

Build and ship core 0-to-1 systems connecting software, hardware, and finance. Responsibilities include designing abstractions over complex data and legacy systems, owning the full product lifecycle, developing production-grade LLM systems for loan underwriting and compliance, and contributing to engineering and product culture. The role requires strong backend and systems thinking, with comfort in full-stack development and UI design.

Designs, develops, deploys, administers, and sustains MuleSoft Anypoint Platform and/or Informatica integrations in AWS GovCloud. Builds secure REST APIs and Mule applications, manages API gateways and lifecycle governance, implements authentication, monitoring, CI/CD, and data synchronization, and integrates Navy logistics and mission-partner systems. The role also performs testing, documentation, incident triage, performance tuning, RMF/STIG support, stakeholder coordination, and knowledge transfer.

Implements, configures, deploys, and supports software platforms and HL7 interfaces. Troubleshoots operating systems, databases, VPN connectivity, and application integrations; manages customer support tickets, SLAs, documentation, and implementation timelines. Advises customers on technical requirements, collaborates across teams to improve reliability, and participates in an on-call rotation.

Own and evolve Jira, Aha!, and related product and engineering platforms. Configure workflows, permissions, schemas, dashboards, automations, integrations, and reporting while improving governance, data quality, reliability, and adoption. Partner with Product, Engineering, TPM, Finance, and IT teams to translate business needs into scalable systems. Lead implementations, migrations, platform lifecycle management, troubleshooting, documentation, training, and tooling evaluations.

Designs, deploys, administers, and troubleshoots Linux-based infrastructure supporting US Antarctic Program systems. Responsibilities include RHEL administration, virtualization, OpenShift clusters, backups, monitoring, security hardening, automation, DNS, Git, documentation, technical leadership, and 24x7 escalation support. The role may involve temporary Antarctic deployments and requires U.S. citizenship, Public Trust clearance, and NSF physical and dental examinations.

Provide pre-sales technical leadership, solution design, demonstrations, proofs of concept, and deployment support for enterprise wired and wireless networking solutions. Design secure Wi-Fi, switching, routing, cloud-managed, and Zero Trust environments. Support post-sales escalations, channel partners, and customer success while relaying technical feedback to Product Management. Conduct RF planning, deliver technical training, and maintain expertise in enterprise networking trends and competitive products.