Cloud Engineer in Chicago, IL

Job Title: Cloud EngineerLocation: Chicago, ILDuration: 6-months ContractClient is looking for a motivated and experienced technical leader to be a key player in changing how we deliver technology for our Wealth Corporate Commercial and Institutional Banking businesses. This person will have a direct and far-reaching impact on migrating our large portfolio of applications to Azure Public Cloud. This role requires working across a broad spectrum of technology and stakeholders. There could not be a better time to join our team as we transform how we deliver technology and value for our customers.ResponsibilitiesPartner with application teams on their journey to Public CloudKey technical lead and liaison between application teams and enterprise cloud migration initiativeIdentify end to end DevOps solutions, leverage best practices and patternsSelf-starter who can pick up new technologies/skills, be comfortable with ambiguity and drive initiatives forwardRoll up sleeves and get teams over tricky CI/CD challengesBasic QualificationsBachelor's degree or equivalent work experienceMinimum 10 years of experience with developing and implementing applications and end-to-end solutionsAt least 5 years of progressive experience with the concepts and tools behind the design and implementation of best-in-class CI/CD, application monitoring and resilience on Public Cloud.Preferred Skills/Experience Must have hands-on experience deploying and running applications on Public Cloud (Azure preferable, AWS) from Development through ProductionVery strong Interpersonal skills with excellent verbal and written communicationProven track record with IaC, CI/CD/DevOps/DevSecOps, Test Automation, SupportabilityCore toolsets include Terraform, Ansible, Gitlab CI/CD, Jira, DatadogApp Stack Exposure – .NET/Java/Spring, REST, Microservice, React, Docker/K8s. On-prem/Azure and/or AWS.Azure IaaS/PaaS expert experience. Define/create runtime environment, network, storage etc.Database experience – DML/DDL deployment for Microsoft SQL Server (must have), Cassandra (nice to have)End to end System Solutioning on Cloud for – Resilience, Security, Performance, Availability, ScalabilityFinancial Services domain knowledge is highly desirable