Azure Infrastructure Architect

About The Company

Wealthspire is a leading wealth management, retirement advisory, and business management firm serving individuals, families, endowments, and institutions across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. We provide a comprehensive platform that brings together wealth management, institutional consulting, business management, family office, and retirement plan advisory services—empowering clients to navigate complexity with clarity and confidence.

Wealthspire is seeking a highly skilled Azure Infrastructure Architect to design, build, and evolve the firm’s Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure. This role is responsible for ensuring a secure, resilient, and scalable cloud foundation that supports enterprise applications, data platforms, end‑user services, and ongoing growth initiatives—including carve‑outs and future M&A activity. The Azure Infrastructure Architect will serve as a hands‑on technical leader, partnering closely with Infrastructure & IT Operations, Cybersecurity, Enterprise Architecture, and Application teams to deliver modern, automated, and highly available cloud infrastructure aligned with Wealthspire’s Microsoft‑first strategy.

• Design, implement, and maintain Azure infrastructure architecture including subscriptions, networking, compute, storage, and identity integrations supporting enterprise workloads
• Implement and manage Azure Virtual Networks, VPN/Express Route, firewalls, load balancers, and hybrid connectivity
• Design secure, scalable Azure landing zones aligned to governance, compliance, and operational standards
• Architect resilient Azure compute platforms (VMs, scale sets, PaaS services where applicable)
• Define and enforce Azure governance using policies, blueprints, tagging, and RBAC

• Ensure high availability, scalability, availability, performance, backup, and disaster recovery across Azure workloads
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response using Azure‑native and third‑party tools
• Drive automation using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Terraform, ARM/Bicep, Power Shell, and CI/CD pipelines
• Partner with IT Operations to mature change, configuration, and lifecycle management
• Serve as a senior technical escalation point for complex Azure infrastructure issues
• Participate in day‑to‑day technology operations

• Lead and execute Azure infrastructure separation and integration activities for carve‑outs, tenant separations, acquisitions, and divestitures
• Develop repeatable Azure playbooks for subscription design, identity integration, and workload migration
• Ensure minimal disruption, strong security posture, and audit readiness during transitional events

• Collaborate with Cybersecurity and Compliance teams on identity, network security, encryption, logging, and threat protection
• Support regulatory and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, SEC, NYDFS)
• Enforce secure‑by‑design infrastructure standards and continuous compliance

• Participate in vendor relationships and work with Microsoft, CSPs, MSPs, and technology vendors to optimize Azure usage and cost
• Evaluate new Azure services and roadmap features for business applicability
• Support continuous improvement initiatives across infrastructure and operations

• 8+ years of experience in IT infrastructure with deep focus on Microsoft Azure
• Proven experience architecting and operating enterprise‑scale Azure environments
• Strong hands‑on expertise with Azure networking, compute, storage, and identity integration
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation frameworks
• Exposure to carve‑outs, integrations, or M&A activity strongly preferred
• Solid understanding of security, identity, and compliance in regulated environments
• Ability to balance strategic architecture with hands‑on technical execution
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Azure certifications (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect Expert) are a plus
• Ability to travel up to 20% (International & Domestic)