Senior Cloud & Automation Engineer

DivIHN Integration Inc; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

DivIHN Integration Inc is seeking a Senior Cloud and Automation Engineer for a permanent hybrid role based in Chicago, IL. You will design, build, and operate Azure and on‑prem infrastructure, and drive automation to replace repetitive manual work with code and process.

You will collaborate with cross‑functional squads, apply IaC practices (Terraform/Ansible), and contribute to a resilient, secure hybrid cloud strategy while embedding SRE principles and proactive incident handling.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of demonstrated experience integrating and automating infrastructure using IaC in a public cloud (Azure preferred) and in a virtualized/on‑premises environment.
• Experience working in cross-functional or squad-based delivery models with engineers, architects, and business stakeholders outside your team.
• Demonstrated Terraform and Ansible experience, ideally in an Azure environment.
• Strong grounding in availability, scalability, security, cost, and operability; ability to reason about trade-offs.
• Builder mindset: automate and codify solutions rather than manual work.
• Comfort operating across a hybrid environment and understanding workload placement impact on cost and performance.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across interdependent systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate infrastructure across Azure and on‑premises hyperconverged environments.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, and operations using IaC, reducing manual work.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional squads to translate requirements into resilient designs.
• Co‑design systems with developers, favoring immutable infrastructure patterns.
• Contribute to hybrid cloud strategy and determine what belongs in private data centers vs. Azure.
• Troubleshoot complex issues spanning cloud, virtualization, storage, networking and identity.
• Establish standards, runbooks, and patterns to reduce tribal knowledge.
• Embed SRE practices, focusing on reliability, proactive detection, and repeatable processes.

Skills

Azure

Terraform

Ansible

SRE

Automation

Hybrid cloud

Job description

Permanent Hire with one of our Major Financial clients

Senior Cloud and Automation Engineer

Permanent Hire (Base Salary + Benefits)

Hybrid in Chicago, IL (2days/week from Office)

Role Summary:

The Cloud and Infrastructure team owns and operates the systems that power the business: Azure, on-premises hyperconverged infrastructure, and the networking and telephony that connect them. We are growing the team to reduce single points of ownership, build deeper coverage across our platforms, and shift more of our work from manual support toward engineering, automation, and self-service.

Our client is looking for a Cloud and Automation Engineer who thinks in systems, not just tools. You should be comfortable moving between cloud and on-premises environments, understand how infrastructure, identity, networking, and applications depend on one another, and be driven to replace repetitive manual work with code and process. You'll work as part of cross-functional squads alongside engineering, security, and business partners, so strong collaboration and communication matter as much as technical depth.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and operate infrastructure across Azure and on-premises hyperconverged environments, applying consistent engineering principles regardless of platform.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, and operational tasks using infrastructure-as-code practices, reducing manual and repetitive work across the environment.
• Partner with cross-functional squads to translate business and application requirements into resilient, secure, and maintainable infrastructure designs.
• Co-design systems and platforms with application developers, favoring immutable infrastructure patterns so environments are consistently rebuilt from code rather than patched or drifted over time.
• Contribute to the evolution of our hybrid cloud strategy: helping decide what belongs in the private data center versus Azure, and building the automation that makes those workloads portable and consistently managed.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues that span cloud, virtualization, storage, networking, and identity layers.
• Establish and document standards, patterns, and runbooks that reduce tribal knowledge and make systems easier for the team to support.
• Embed SRE principles and engineering practices into how systems are built and how the team works day to day, favoring measurable reliability, proactive detection, and repeatable process over reactive firefighting.
• Identify opportunities to insource work currently handled by external managed-service partners, and build the automation and monitoring needed to support it internally.
• Contribute to shifting the team's focus away from bespoke, hand-managed infrastructure and toward IaaS models and reusable, codified platforms, freeing capacity to focus on the systems that enable differentiated business capabilities.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and incident response, contributing to root-cause analysis and durable fixes rather than one-off remediation.
• Stay current with evolving cloud, virtualization, and automation practices, and bring new approaches back to the team.

Requirements:

• 5-10 years of demonstrated experience integrating and automating infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches, in a public cloud (Azure preferred) and in a virtualized or hyperconverged on-premises environment.
• Experience working in cross-functional or squad-based delivery models, partnering with engineers, architects, and business stakeholders outside your immediate team.
• Demonstrated experience with Terraform and Ansible, ideally applied in an Azure environment.
• Strong grounding in core systems and cloud engineering principles: availability, scalability, security, cost, and operability, and the ability to reason about trade-offs between them.
• A builder's mindset: default to automating and codifying solutions rather than performing repeated manual work.
• A drive to optimize and re-engineer processes where it makes sense, rather than simply automating what's done today as-is.
• Comfort operating across a hybrid environment, understanding how workload placement decisions affect cost, performance, resiliency, and support burden.
• Strong troubleshooting instincts and the ability to work back from symptoms to root cause across interdependent systems.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to identity and access management, networking, or telephony systems in addition to core infrastructure.
• Experience contributing to architecture decisions or documentation (e.g., ADRs) rather than only implementing them.
• Familiarity with reducing reliance on outsourced managed services through internal automation and tooling.
• Experience working in a highly regulated financial services environment, including familiarity with the risk, compliance, and change-control expectations common there.