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. With over 1,200 employees across more than 40 offices, we deliver insights and solutions backed by deep research, technology, and decades of expertise.

Our collective businesses create a unified ecosystem designed to meet clients wherever they are in their financial journey. Wealthspire is redefining the future of financial solutions through collaboration, scale, and a steadfast commitment to putting people first—our clients, our colleagues, and our communities. For more information, visit  Wealthspire Advisors LLC, Fiducient Advisors LLC, Wealthspire Retirement, LLC, dba Wealthspire Retirement Advisory, and certain other affiliates are separately registered investment advisers.

Summary: 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
• Prove…