Senior Cloud Engineer
Baker Tilly26 days ago
Chicago, IL, USA +3 moreSenior
Base Salary
$74k - $148k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate scalable multi-cloud infrastructure and foundational services across AWS, Azure, and other providers.
- Develop and maintain reusable Terraform, Ansible, and Bicep infrastructure-as-code modules and standardized deployment patterns.
- Build Python, PowerShell, and Bash automation to eliminate manual operational work and improve reliability.
- Own cloud-service reliability outcomes, including troubleshooting, incident response, root-cause analysis, runbooks, monitoring, alerting, and preventative remediation.
- Implement security, compliance, resilience, backup, recovery, patching, and vulnerability-management controls and support audit readiness.
- Optimize cloud performance and cost efficiency through tagging standards and cost-allocation practices.
- Translate requirements into technical designs, implementation plans, and roadmaps.
- Mentor engineers through pairing, code reviews, and knowledge sharing while influencing cross-team technical patterns and decisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- At least 5 years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or related roles.
- Hands-on engineering depth in at least two major cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI.
- Strong infrastructure-as-code experience, especially Terraform and/or Ansible, including module development and pattern standardization.
- Strong scripting and automation experience with Python, PowerShell, Bash, or equivalent.
- Experience implementing or significantly improving infrastructure CI/CD practices.
- Experience with incident response, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and preventative remediation.
- Knowledge of multi-cloud design, foundational cloud services, operational excellence, security and compliance patterns, and audit readiness.
- Preferred certifications include AWS Solutions Architect – Professional, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional, with two or more preferred.
- Preferred experience includes container orchestration, Azure Policy, AWS Organizations controls, GCP organization policies, centralized logging and security-monitoring integrations, regulated environments, multi-region patterns, shared-services networking, and private connectivity.
Benefits
- Baker Tilly offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package to eligible employees.
About Baker Tilly
Baker Tilly provides audit/assurance, tax, and advisory services—including analytics, governance risk and compliance, and government contracting—to companies, public sector entities, and nonprofits. Headquartered in Chicago and organized as a partnership, it operates coast to coast in the U.S. and is an independent member of Baker Tilly International, with U.S. attest services delivered by Baker Tilly US, LLP and tax and advisory by Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP.