Alliant Credit Union ยท 5 hours ago
Principal Systems Engineer
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$106K/yr - $183K/yr
5+ years expAlliant Credit Union is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to serve as the go-to person for systems engineering. The role involves leading design sessions, providing technical support, and implementing cloud-based infrastructure solutions while ensuring the interoperability and adherence to technology standards.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Attend design sessions and planning meetings to solution designs that cross the credit union's infrastructure while providing technical support to the organization by understanding cloud-based infrastructure
Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, including state management and automated deployments
Provide advanced support for Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Synapse Analytics, Spark Notebooks, and Azure SQL. Identify technical risks, align enterprise backup architecture and develop enterprise-ready DR solutions
Analyze and approve complex designs across engineering disciplines, documenting risks and ensuring risk controls and requirements are met
Ensure inclusion of inputs into product and technical design reviews from cross functional stakeholders
Anticipate technical challenges and risk scenarios and prepare, manage, and execute mitigation strategies to ensure optimal results
Utilize creative thinking and teamwork to resolve conflicts and make critical decisions relating to systems deliverables
Provide engineering consulting and recommendations for new IT systems to ensure the interoperability and adherence to technology standards and policies
Serve as a lead for group projects as well as internal IT and business driven initiatives
Define and monitor multiple project priorities and provide technical and administrative supervision; ensure appropriate management is apprised of operational status of projects
Provide appropriate hardware/software resources for business applications; perform capacity planning, workload modeling/prediction, and purchasing recommendations for new hardware/software upgrades; provide business applications enough resources for their short-term and long-term growth
Build and Manage CI/CD pipelines and repositories such as GitHub or Azure Devops for maintaining code
Point person for enterprise cloud design specifications, risk analysis, integration
Design and deploy new and existing systems in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments, selecting appropriate cloud services, including migrations from on-premises to cloud
Manage, support, and maintain cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP) to ensure optimal performance and reliability
Monitor and analyze cloud environments to optimize performance, improve reliability, scale applications, and manage costs efficiently
Develop and maintain microservices (such as Azure Logic Apps and Function Apps) for automation and integration
Qualification
Required
Lead subject matter expert that serves as the go-to person for systems engineering
Attend design sessions and planning meetings to solution designs that cross the credit union's infrastructure while providing technical support to the organization by understanding of Linux, Windows, and cloud-based infrastructure
Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, including state management and automated deployments
Provide advanced support for Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Synapse Analytics, Spark Notebooks, and Azure SQL
Identify technical risks, align enterprise backup architecture and develop enterprise-ready DR solutions
Analyze and approve complex designs across engineering disciplines, documenting risks and ensuring risk controls and requirements are met
Ensure inclusion of inputs into product and technical design reviews from cross functional stakeholders
Anticipate technical challenges and risk scenarios and prepare, manage, and execute mitigation strategies to ensure optimal results
Utilize creative thinking and teamwork to resolve conflicts and make critical decisions relating to systems deliverables
Provide engineering consulting and recommendations for new IT systems to ensure the interoperability and adherence to technology standards and policies
Serve as a lead for group projects as well as internal IT and business driven initiatives
Define and monitor multiple project priorities and provide technical and administrative supervision; ensure appropriate management is apprised of operational status of projects
Provide appropriate hardware/software resources for business applications; perform capacity planning, workload modeling/prediction, and purchasing recommendations for new hardware/software upgrades; provide business applications enough resources for their short-term and long-term growth
Build and Manage CI/CD pipelines and repositories such as GitHub or Azure Devops for maintaining code
Point person for enterprise cloud design specifications, risk analysis, integration
Design and deploy new and existing systems in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments, selecting appropriate cloud services, including migrations from on-premises to cloud
Manage, support, and maintain cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP) to ensure optimal performance and reliability
Monitor and analyze cloud environments to optimize performance, improve reliability, scale applications, and manage costs efficiently
Develop and maintain microservices (such as Azure Logic Apps and Function Apps) for automation and integration
Minimum - Bachelors Degree - Computer Science, IT or related
Minimum -5 years - Design, configuration, deployment and administration of cloud services or related
Understanding of AI platforms and models, including AI Foundry
Deep Expertise in cloud providers 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 pf network hardware and software
Benefits
Health care
Vision
Dental
401k with employer match
Annual performance bonus
Work from home up to 3 days a week
Paid parental leave
Employee discount programs
Time off including paid personal and sick days
11 paid holidays
Education reimbursement
Company
Alliant Credit Union
Alliant Credit Union is an Illinois-chartered credit union.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Mike Dobbins
Chief Executive Officer
Hector Crespo
SVP, Head of Marketing, Design, and Brand
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2026-01-06
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