Research Cloud Engineer - Technology Solutions

UIC; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life Insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Tuition waivers for employees and-deps

Job summary

University of Illinois Chicago is seeking a Research Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and support cloud and hybrid infrastructure for the UIC research community. You will work with ACER engineers and researchers to deliver secure, scalable cloud solutions using Terraform and CloudFormation, across AWS and Azure.

The role involves optimizing costs, enabling cloud adoption for research use cases, and delivering training on cloud topics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or closely related field.
• Minimum of 1 year of professional IT experience within Cyberinfrastructure research computing.
• Experience building and managing Azure and/or AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with system administration/Engineering/DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Designs, creates, and maintains secure, repeatable cloud solutions via Terraform and CloudFormation templates.
• Participate in cloud service design, development, delivery, and continuous improvement program.
• Support hybrid or cloud only, containerized, and/or serverless solutions through CI/CD processes.
• Execute provisioning of secure cloud solutions for research use cases.
• Optimize cloud computing costs and set up effective alerts.
• Collaborate with researchers and ACER engineers to deliver training on cloud topics.

Job description

Research Cloud Engineer - Technology Solutions

Chicago, IL, United States

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1042614

Posted on: 8/27/2026 - Application Deadline: 9/3/2026

Hiring Department: Technology Solutions

Location: Chicago, IL USA

Requisition ID: 1042614

FTE: 1

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 9:00AM - 5:00PM

Shift: Days

# of Positions: 1

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Posting Close Date: 09/03/2026

Salary Range (commensurate with experience): $85,000.00 - 100,000.00 / Annual Salary

About the University of Illinois Chicago

UIC is among the nation’s preeminent urban public research universities, a Carnegie RU/VH research institution, and the largest university in Chicago. UIC serves over 34,000 students, comprising one of the most diverse student bodies in the nation and is designated as a Minority Serving Institution (MSI), an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPSI) and a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). Through its 16 colleges, UIC produces nationally and internationally recognized multidisciplinary academic programs in concert with civic, corporate and community partners worldwide, including a full complement of health sciences colleges. By emphasizing cutting-edge and transformational research along with a commitment to the success of all students, UIC embodies the dynamic, vibrant and engaged urban university. Recent “Best Colleges” rankings published by U.S. News & World Report, found UIC climbed up in its rankings among top public schools in the nation and among all national universities. UIC has nearly 260,000 alumni, and is one of the largest employers in the city of Chicago.

This position is intended to be eligible for benefits . This includes Health, Dental, Vision, LifeInsurance, a Retirement Plan, Paid time Off, and Tuition waivers for employees and dependents.

This position collaborates with UIC researchers to develop, improve, maintain, and support cloud and hybrid infrastructure. As part of ACER's growing engineering team, this position will provide cloud architecture, engineering, and operational expertise to the UIC research community. This position collaborates with other ACER engineers and computational scientists to develop secure, scalable, performant, and cost-effective solutions that are either hybrid or entirely in the cloud. This position will also assist the engineering team in creating and delivering training on cloud-related topics for the UIC research community.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Designs, creates, and maintains secure, repeatable cloud solutions via Terraform and CloudFormation templates (or equivalent solutions) to enable the adoption of cloud services in the research community.
• Participate in cloud service design, development, delivery, and continuous improvement program.
• Support hybrid or cloud only, containerized, and/or serverless solutions through CI/CD processes.
• Execute the provisioning of secure, repeatable cloud solutions to enable effective use and adoption of cloud for research related use cases.
• Optimize cloud computing costs, assist the community in developing realistic cloud computing budgets, and setup effective alerts.
• Self-starter with a drive to work autonomously as a member of a collaborative team.
• Able to identify the advantages/disadvantages of competing tools or services among on-prem vs. in the cloud across different cloud providers (i.e., AWS and Azure).
• Communicate effectively through verbal and written means with practical diagramming and documentation abilities.
• Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications Required:

• Bachelor Degree within Computer Science or closely related field of study.
• Minimum of 1 year of professional level IT experience within Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Research Computing including the design and implementation of advanced high performance computing systems; data (acquisition, storage, management and reporting); and networks in support of research initiatives.
• Experience with building and managing Azure and/or AWS cloud infrastructure
• Experience with system administration/Engineering/DevOps

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with AWS services such as CloudFormation, ParallelCluster, EC2, S3, VPC, GuardDuty, CloudTrail, ECS, and EKS and their equivalent counterparts in Azure such as CycleCloud, Secure Enclave, Storage Accounts, VMs.
• Experience with developing cloud and/or hybrid solutions for projects with sensitive datasets (e.g., HIPAA, NIST, CMMC)
• Experience with network file systems, networking, databases, and shell scripting
• Exposure to high-performance computing and job schedulers
• AWS Professional or Azure Expert certifications or ability to pursue within 24 months of hire
• Exposure to Infrastructure-as-a-Code tools such as TerraForm
• Exposure to configuration management tools such as Ansible

We encourage all applicants who meet minimum qualifications to apply, even if you don’t have all the preferred skills mentioned above. We invest in the continued development of our staff and will empower you to gain expertise and experience in new areas to ensure your continued professional growth.

Illinois Residency is required within 180 days of employment.

The University of Illinois System is an equal opportunity employer, including but not limited to disability and/or veteran status, and complies with all applicable state and federal employment mandates. Please visit Required Employment Notices and Posters to view our non-discrimination statement and find additional information about required background checks, sexual harassment/misconduct disclosures, and employment eligibility review through E-Verify.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools may be used in some portions of the candidate review process for this position, however, all employment decisions will be made by a person.

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The University of Illinois System is an equal opportunity employer, including but not limited to disability and/or veteran status, and complies with all applicable state and federal employment mandates. Please visit Required Employment Notices and Posters to view our non-discrimination statement and find additional information about required background checks, covid sexual harassment/misconduct disclosures, and employment eligibility review through E-Verify.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools may be used in some portions of the candidate review process for this position, however, all employment decisions will be made by a person.