Senior Cloud Engineer: Multi-Cloud, IaC & Security

The Blue Venture Fund; Oak Brook (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Blue Venture Fund is seeking a Sr. Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and maintain our enterprise cloud platform across private and public clouds. You will work closely with development, security, and operations teams to deliver scalable, secure infrastructure and automation.

You will configure cloud-native services, manage AKS deployments, and drive IaC adoption using Terraform, ARM templates, and PowerShell. The role emphasizes reliability, cost efficiency, and mentoring junior engineers.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, administering, and supporting enterprise cloud infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of private/public cloud environments and security policies.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and IaC tooling (Terraform, ARM, PowerShell).
• Experience with container orchestration (AKS) and service meshes (Istio).
• Proactive monitoring, cost optimization, and disaster recovery planning.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct support and improve day-to-day operations of hardware and operating systems, including Cloud Services.
• Evaluate system utilization, monitor response time, and provide primary support for detection and correction of operational problems.
• Coordinate and perform additions and changes to servers, network, operating systems and attached devices.
• Ensure servers, operating systems and network components adhere to security policies and infrastructure standards.
• Utilize metrics and cloud-native consumption-based services to improve cost efficiencies.
• Implement and configure cloud-native services in CI/CD pipelines using IaC tools.
• Implement and configure Istio Service Mesh and Helm Chart Deployments.
• Maintain VMware and Cloud virtual environments.
• Mentor fellow Cloud Admins and Engineers.
• Troubleshoot AKS cluster-based issues and deployments via ADO pipelines.
• Provide infrastructure problem resolution and SQL Server troubleshooting.
• Cross-train team members and support incident management.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD

Monitoring & optimization

Azure/AWS cloud services

SRE practices

Networking & security

Infrastructure as Code

AKS/containers

Active Directory

Scripting (PowerShell/PS/Terraform)

Tools

Terraform

ARM templates

PowerShell

Istio Service Mesh

Helm

Azure

AKS

VMware

ADO pipelines

Job description

The Blue Venture Fund is seeking a Sr. Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and maintain our enterprise cloud platform across private and public clouds. You will work closely with development, security, and operations teams to deliver scalable, secure infrastructure and automation.

You will configure cloud-native services, manage AKS deployments, and drive IaC adoption using Terraform, ARM templates, and PowerShell. The role emphasizes reliability, cost efficiency, and mentoring junior engineers.