Mid-Level Cloud Engineer

Mid-Level Cloud Engineer

Company: Global Enterprise Services, LLC
Location: Chicago and surrounding Cook County communities, Illinois
Work Arrangement: Availability for onsite assessments, meetings, and implementation activities, with travel to Springfield and other Illinois locations as required.
Salary Range: $85,000–$140,000 annually. Salary within the range will reflect the candidate’s experience, technical depth, qualifications, and ability to fulfill the role’s responsibilities.

Position Summary

Global Enterprise Services, LLC is seeking a Mid-Level Cloud Engineer to support cloud infrastructure assessment, implementation, administration, and troubleshooting for enterprise IT initiatives in Illinois.

Responsibilities may include technical discovery, cloud configuration, workload migration, automation, monitoring, and operational support. The ideal candidate has experience supporting Illinois Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT) environments or agencies or customers of comparable size and complexity.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in site surveys and technical discovery to document infrastructure, workloads, connectivity, and application dependencies.
• Configure and maintain cloud resources according to approved designs and organizational standards.
• Support cloud networking, compute, storage, identity, backup, and monitoring services.
• Assist with workload migrations, testing, deployment, and transition to operations.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code and scripts for repeatable provisioning and administration.
• Implement access controls, security configurations, patching, and remediation under established procedures.
• Monitor performance, availability, capacity, and resource consumption; recommend improvements.
• Troubleshoot cloud infrastructure and connectivity issues, escalating complex problems as needed.
• Maintain configuration documentation, diagrams, procedures, and operational runbooks.
• Collaborate with architects, senior engineers, security teams, vendors, and customer personnel.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Three or more years of relevant IT experience, including at least two years implementing or administering cloud infrastructure.
• Practical experience with at least one major cloud platform: Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
• Working knowledge of virtual machines, storage, virtual networks, DNS, firewalls, load balancing, and identity and access management.
• Experience administering Windows or Linux environments.
• Experience using infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Bicep, or CloudFormation.
• Ability to use scripting tools such as PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
• Familiarity with cloud monitoring, backup, recovery, and security practices.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Illinois DoIT environments or agencies or customers of comparable size and complexity.
• Experience supporting public-sector technology initiatives.
• Experience integrating cloud services with on-premises infrastructure.
• Familiarity with version control and deployment pipelines.
• Relevant cloud administrator or engineer certification.

Background Screening

Must successfully complete applicable customer-required background checks, which may include fingerprint-based screening, and meet requirements for access to customer facilities, systems, and data.

Representative Deliverables

Deliverables will vary by assignment and may include:

• Configured cloud resources and deployment documentation.
• Infrastructure as code modules and automation scripts.
• Migration and testing records.
• Monitoring configurations and operational runbooks.
• Infrastructure inventories and updated technical diagrams.