Lead Cloud Engineer

About us:

Started by a former school district network admin in 2003, the business has grown almost entirely through referrals. Founded in 2003, we now have 33 employees.

About the role:

We have an immediate opening for a Lead Cloud Engineer in Chicago. The operations team manages landing zones, networking and identity for every application team in the company. Hybrid. You will need to be in Chicago at least two days per week.

What you'll work on:

• Design VPCs and VNets, subnets, routing, VPN and Direct Connect or ExpressRoute links
• Analyze monthly cloud bills and recommend Savings Plans, reservations or rightsizing
• Manage IAM roles, policies and Azure RBAC with least-privilege access
• Apply security controls and fix findings from AWS Security Hub, Defender for Cloud or Wiz

You might be a good fit if you:

• 7+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation
• Understanding of identity integration with Entra ID (Azure AD) or Okta
• Ability to explain cloud costs and tradeoffs to non-technical managers
• Scripting in Python, PowerShell or Bash
• Windows and Linux server administration experience

Preferred qualifications:

• Hybrid cloud with VMware or Azure Arc
• FinOps practices and tools like CloudHealth or Vantage
• GCP experience

What we offer:

Salary range: $205,000 - $240,000 a year

• Three weeks of PTO to start
• Employee assistance program
• 401(k) with company match
• Vision insurance

This position requires a background check.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Canalwater Computer Services LLC.