Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (Naperville)

This role is offered with a long-time repeat client whom we've worked closely with for over a decade. This relationship and track record of success has resulted in a great understanding of the team, technical environment, and opportunities ahead. Candidates presented by MMD Services will be shortlisted and conversations will move fast.

They are an established, national, multi-site enterprise consumer products company with a large, complex IT environment and a strong history of investing in its technology teams.

They're looking for a hands-on Senior Cloud & Platform Engineer to help drive a major infrastructure modernization initiative while supporting their growing cloud footprint across Microsoft Azure and AWS.

The company is migrating its on-premises VMware environment into Azure while maintaining AWS as a core platform for its application development and engineering teams. This creates an interesting mix of traditional enterprise infrastructure, modern cloud technologies, and automation.

This is a highly technical, hands-on role with the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on how the company's cloud infrastructure is built, managed, and improved.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and execute the migration of enterprise VMware and on-premises infrastructure into Microsoft Azure.
• Engineer, administer, and optimize infrastructure across AWS and Azure.
• Administer and support AWS environments used for software development, applications, and ongoing business operations.
• Build and automate infrastructure using Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
• Manage AWS services including EC2, S3, IAM, and related cloud infrastructure.
• Improve cloud provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and operational processes.
• Collaborate with application development, infrastructure, and security teams on cloud platform initiatives.
• Optimize, monitor, administer, and support VMware, Windows Server, compute, storage, and hybrid cloud environments & identify opportunities to improve reliability, scalability, and automation.

Required Experience:

• Strong hands-on engineering experience with both Microsoft Azure and AWS.
• Proven experience with enterprise on-premises or VMware-to-Azure migrations.
• Solid AWS infrastructure experience, including EC2, S3, IAM, and supporting application environments.
• Practical experience with Terraform or comparable Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Experience with scripting, automation, and modern infrastructure deployment practices.
• Strong VMware, virtualization, Windows Server, and enterprise infrastructure fundamentals.
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure supporting software development environments.
• Experience working across hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to independently own technical initiatives.

Pay range:

$140,000 – $170,000 annually (paid hourly)

MMD Services Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants are considered for all positions without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, national origin, ancestry, physical/mental disability, medical condition, military/veteran status, genetic information, marital status, ethnicity, alienage, or any other protected classification in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local law.