Sr Cloud Engineer - Direct to Permanent Hire #1015322
(NO HEADHUNTERS OR 3RD PARTY FIRMS, PLEASE)
Location: Addison, IL - Hybrid, 3 days onsite, Tue-Thur
Salary - $121k - 160k
An onsite interview in Addison, IL will be required.
The Senior Systems & Cloud Engineer designs builds, and operate primarily across Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), while supporting the on-premises systems that connect to them. This is a hands-on, cloud-focused role for an engineer who brings strong system-engineering fundamentals — Windows, Linux, networking, and identity — and applies them to building reliable, well-architected cloud environments.
Terraform is central to how the role works: infrastructure is defined as reusable, version-controlled configurations rather than provisioned by hand. The ideal candidate pairs cloud engineering with a solid infrastructure background, bringing consistency, repeatability, and reliability to everything we run. This role will likely spend 50% of the time working within our Azure environment, 20% on-premises technologies, 20% on GCP and remainder time on other internal technologies. A passion for automation and process improvement is key.
A Typical Day
- Administer, patch, and harden Windows Server and Linux systems across on-prem and cloud environments.
- Define and maintain Terraform configurations, modules, state, standards, and Git-based deployment workflows.
- Manage virtualization, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, certificates, and core infrastructure services.
- Provision and operate Azure and GCP compute, storage, networking, identity, and hybrid connectivity.
- Build secure cloud landing zones, support workload migrations, and optimize cost, tagging, and resource hygiene.
- Automate configuration and operational tasks with PowerShell, Bash, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
- Monitor systems, respond to alerts, support incidents, and ensure uptime, performance, capacity, and security.
Your experience
- You bring hands-on Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code experience, turning complex environments into clean, repeatable, version-controlled builds.
- You enjoy using PowerShell and Bash to automate the manual work others still do the hard way.
- You’re confident administering Windows Server and Linux environments and keeping critical systems secure, stable, and ready for what’s next.
- You understand virtualization, including Nutanix, and know how to keep hosts, clusters, capacity, and performance running smoothly.
- You’ve built in Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) across compute, storage, networking, identity, and serverless patterns — with an eye toward cloud environments that scale with the business.
- You know Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, and certificate services — the core services that keep an enterprise connected.
- Storage, backup, and disaster recovery are familiar territory, including SAN/NAS and backup tooling — because resilience is more than a buzzword.
- You look for smart ways to use PowerShell, Bash, or Python to make infrastructure faster, safer, and easier to support.
- You take pride in patch management, monitoring, and systems hardening, building environments that are both reliable and secure.
- You balance planned projects, urgent incidents, and everything in between with strong time management and prioritization.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years in systems engineering / infrastructure administration (Windows, Linux, virtualization)
- 5+ years building infrastructure in Azure and/or GCP
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
- Solid networking, storage, and Active Directory fundamentals
- Microsoft Azure Administrator and/or Google Associate Cloud Engineer certification
- Experience operating hybrid environments that span on-premises data centers and public cloud
Soft skills:
- Straight shooter – to the point
- Take Ownership
- Operate independently – minimal supervision in an Infrastructure, hybrid environment – traditional on-prem experience
- ability to talk to different stakeholders within the organization – figure out infrastructure requirements
Dexian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.
