Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer

* Chicago-area hybrid opportunity. 3 Days onsite in downtown Chicago, IL*

We're seeking a Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer to join a financial services organization consolidating its infrastructure into Azure.

This is a highly visible role reporting to the CIO, for a hands-on engineer who wants to own the IT platform end to end.

The position will own Azure, networking, firewall and remote-access infrastructure, backup, and DR. This is not a security policy or SOC role.

• Own Azure subscriptions, governance, RBAC, and cost management
• Design and run hub-and-spoke networking: VNets, NSGs, private endpoints, and VPN Gateways
• Own the Palo Alto infrastructure, including HA, Panorama, PAN-OS upgrades, and Prisma Access/Global Protect
• Own the WAN and office LAN (Cisco Meraki)
• Run Azure Backup and Site Recovery and lead the annual DR test
• Lead the migration of remaining data-center workloads into Azure using infrastructure-as-code

• 5+ years of infrastructure engineering experience
• 3+ years of hands-on Azure experience at the platform level
• Azure Backup/Site Recovery and DR testing experience
• Kubernetes (AKS preferred), Bicep or Terraform, and Power Shell or Python
• Windows Server administration
• Financial services or PCI DSS experience is a strong plus