Principal Systems Engineer

Alliant Credit Union

full-time

Posted on: 9/22/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Illinois

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💰 $128,500 - $186,300 per year

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AnsibleAWSAzureCloudDNSDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesPrometheusPythonSQLTerraformVMware

About the role

Lead subject matter experts for Cloud needs within the Datacenter and Cloud Services team
Attend design sessions and planning meetings and provide cloud-based infrastructure support
Identify technical risks and develop enterprise-ready DR solutions and align backup architecture
Point person for enterprise cloud design specifications, risk analysis, and integration
Analyze and approve complex designs across engineering disciplines, document risks and controls
Ensure inclusion of inputs into product and technical design reviews from cross-functional stakeholders
Anticipate technical challenges and execute mitigation strategies
Collaborate with project management to create and manage schedules for project related work
Provide engineering consulting and recommendations for new IT systems to ensure interoperability and standards adherence
Serve as a lead for group projects and internal IT and business-driven initiatives
Define and monitor multiple project priorities and provide technical and administrative supervision
Perform capacity planning, workload modeling/prediction, and purchasing recommendations for hardware/software
Document projects deployed and ensure cross-training to team members is completed

Bachelors Degree - Computer Science, IT or related
Minimum 5 years - Design, configuration, deployment and administration of cloud services or related
Deep Expertise in Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Infrastructure as Code (ex. Terraform, Ansible)
Data Platforms (ex. Azure Synapse, Databricks, Microsoft/Azure SQL)
Containerization (ex. Docker, Kubernetes)
Knowledge of Backup Solutions (ex. CommVault)
Hypervisors (ex. VMWare vSphere)
DNS
Monitoring & Logging tools/analysis (ex. CloudWatch, Prometheus)
Scripting languages (ex. Powershell, Python and Bash)
In Lieu of Education: 8 years - Design, configuration, deployment and administration of network hardware and software