Research Cloud Engineer - Technology Solutions

• 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.

1. Bachelor Degree within Computer Science or closely related field of study.
2. 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.
3. Experience with building and managing Azure and/or AWS cloud infrastructure
4. Experience with system administration/Engineering/DevOps, * 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

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, Life Insurance, 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.

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