Research Cloud Engineer - Technology Solutions

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.