Systems Administrator / Cloud Operations Engineer

Job overview

The Systems Administrator / Cloud Operations Engineer role is hybrid, with work from a company office or remotely in the United States; the listing location is South Holland, IL. Pay is $70,000–$115,000 per year. The role supports the Infrastructure & Cloud Operations team serving engineering, surveying, and design staff across six engineering firms. This individual contributor helps keep identity, cloud services, servers, and networks secure and operational while supporting consolidation of identity tenants and data centers. The work enables staff to rely on stable infrastructure and supports the company’s acquisition integration and compliance needs.

What you'll do

• Administer servers, virtualization, cloud workloads, storage, backups, collaboration services, and patching
• operate data centers and support consolidation
• monitor infrastructure and handle escalations
• perform and document restore tests
• support identity tenant consolidation and administer Active Directory, Entra ID, and Microsoft 365
• maintain network and endpoint security
• support engineering applications and users
• contribute to acquisition integrations
• automate routine work and maintain runbooks and diagrams.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

systems administrator

cloud operations engineer

dj&a

south holland il

hybrid

microsoft 365

entra id

active directory

data center operations

powershell

infrastructure security

$70k–$115k/year

travel to offices and data centers

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Flexible work location across company offices or remote in the US; occasional after-hours or weekend maintenance and migrations, with a possible on-call rotation; travel to offices and data centers as needed.

About the employer

DJ&A is hiring for this role. Industry: All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services. Sector: 54.