Cloud Engineer & AI Infra Lead

Huron; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 155,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision coverage

Incentive pay

Job summary

Huron is seeking a Cloud Engineer to join its AI Engineering practice. You will design, build, and operate cloud-native environments, enabling AI solutions across client engagements and internal assets.

You will lead infrastructure decisions, collaborate with architects and client teams, and drive secure, scalable deployments. This role offers growth into cloud architecture responsibilities over time, with responsibilities spanning IaC, DevOps pipelines, and observability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in cloud engineering or platform infrastructure.
• Design and provision cloud infrastructure on at least one major cloud platform.
• Proficient with AI/ML and LLM infra on at least one cloud platform.
• Production-grade experience with Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with Hub and Spoke architectures across dev/QA/staging/prod.
• Strong knowledge of cloud networking and security.
• Cloud certification on AWS/Azure/GCP is preferred.
• Strong client-facing communication skills.
• 5+ years in a consulting or client-delivery context preferred.
• Flexible living locations across US or Canada, travel as needed.

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and operate end-to-end cloud environments across client and internal use cases.
• Build and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and CDK.
• Design and provision data engineering pipelines and AI/ML and LLM infrastructure.
• Set up DevOps pipelines for data engineering, AI, and other solution components.
• Containerize and deploy applications across cloud-native compute and serverless services.
• Set up and maintain observability foundations: logging, monitoring, alerting, and cost tracking.
• Ensure secure deployments across identity, networking, and secrets management.
• Implement compliance guardrails aligned to regulated environment requirements.
• Produce runbooks, operational documentation, and support handoff processes.
• Review infrastructure designs and IaC produced by others.
• Serve as the cloud lead on client engagements, representing infrastructure decisions to client stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Solution Architects, Engineers, and client IT and security teams to align infrastructure with engagement requirements.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Infrastructure as Code

AI/ML infrastructure

Hub and Spoke architecture

Cloud networking

Cloud security

Client-facing communication

Tools

Terraform

CDK

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Huron is seeking a Cloud Engineer to join its AI Engineering practice. You will design, build, and operate cloud-native environments, enabling AI solutions across client engagements and internal assets.

You will lead infrastructure decisions, collaborate with architects and client teams, and drive secure, scalable deployments. This role offers growth into cloud architecture responsibilities over time, with responsibilities spanning IaC, DevOps pipelines, and observability.