Consultant, Cloud Solutions

Burwood Group • Chicago, IL

20h

About The Position

Inside the Cloud Solutions Team Our team is a premier, award-winning group of cloud experts specializing in the State, Local, and Education (SLED) and Higher Education sectors. Highly recognized leader in Google’s exclusive SLED badge program with distinctions in AI/ML, Data & Analytics, and Work Transformation. We bring deep expertise and innovation to every engagement. Working in close collaboration with Google Cloud sales teams, Rapid Innovation Teams, and technical SMEs, our team delivers transformative cloud solutions that help hundreds of clients modernize, innovate, and achieve meaningful outcomes. How You’ll Make an Impact As a Consultant within our Google Cloud practice, you will be a core builder driving our clients' cloud transformations. This is a hands-on, delivery-focused role where you will execute technical requirements and build secure, scalable environments using Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, and Terraform. Working closely with our Senior Technical Leads, you will implement best-practice infrastructure while gaining exposure to the cutting-edge generative AI workloads we deploy for our SLED and Higher Education clients.

Requirements

• 2-3+ years of hands-on experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or system administration, with a strong focus on deploying resources in GCP.
• Comfortable writing Terraform to deploy infrastructure and navigating/modifying existing IaC codebases.
• Practical experience building container images and deploying workloads to Kubernetes clusters.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language (Bash, Python, etc.) for task automation.
• Ability to take directed technical requirements and drive them to completion independently.
• A genuine passion for expanding your DevOps toolkit and staying curious about the Google Cloud ecosystem.
• You collaborate effectively with others, welcome feedback and code reviews from senior team members, and contribute positively to a team-oriented environment.

Nice To Haves

• A genuine curiosity for the fast-paced AI ecosystem, with a readiness to deploy the underlying infrastructure for modern AI workloads (e.g., Vertex AI) and adapt to the rapidly evolving landscape of GenAI applications.
• Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer is expected; Professional Certifications (Cloud Architect, Cloud DevOps Engineer) are a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Implementation: Write, modify, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to provision cloud resources. Support the management of existing CI/CD pipelines.
• Container Deployment: Containerize applications using Docker and deploy/manage workloads on Kubernetes (GKE).
• Cloud Operations & Security: Implement GCP networking configurations (VPCs, firewalls) and apply IAM roles and policies to ensure secure, least-privilege environments.
• AI Infrastructure Support: Assist Senior Consultants in provisioning the foundational cloud infrastructure required to support modern AI workloads (e.g., preparing environments for Vertex AI deployments).
• Project Delivery: Collaborate seamlessly with internal Project Managers and Senior technical staff to execute assigned tasks, resolve blockers, and document technical configurations.

Benefits

• Customer Focus. We put our clients at the center of everything we do - listening, understanding their challenges, and delivering solutions that drive impact.
• Ownership, collaboration, and growth.
• Work alongside talented professionals, tackle exciting challenges, and develop skills that elevate your career.
• Culture that values your unique strengths.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed