Senior Systems Engineer

Wintrust provides community and commercial banking, specialty finance and wealth management services through its 16 bank charters and nine non-bank businesses. Wintrust delivers the sophisticated solutions of a large bank while staying true to the relationship-focused, personalized service of our community banking roots. We serve clients in all 50 states with more than 200 branch banking locations in Illinois, southwestern Florida, northwestern Indiana, west Michigan and southern Wisconsin and commercial banking offices in Chicago, Denver, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, Mich.,

and in key branch banking locations throughout Illinois. Our people are the heart of our business and we are proud to rank consistently as a top place to work. Wintrust is a $66 billion financial institution based in Rosemont, Illinois, and listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol WTFC.

• An award-winning culture! We are rated a Top Workplace by the Chicago Tribune (past 12 years) and Employee Recommended award by the Globe & Mail (past 6 years)
• Competitive pay and discretionary or incentive bonus eligible
• Comprehensive benefit package including medical, dental, vision, life, a 401k plan with a generous company match and tuition reimbursement to name a few
• Promote from within culture

• This position has the opportunity to interface with and have a positive impact on multiple areas of Wintrust's business
• We hold ourselves accountable to high standards, share wins, operate ethically, and have fun

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Senior Azure Cloud Engineer to design, implement, manage, and optimize cloud-based solutions within Microsoft Azure. This individual will join our growing IT Infrastructure Operations team and will partner closely with the Cloud Architect and other technology teams to maintain secure, scalable, and reliable cloud infrastructure while driving automation, cloud governance, and modernization initiatives.

The Senior Azure Cloud Engineer will be responsible for supporting and enhancing the organization's Azure environment through cloud engineering best practices, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Dev Ops automation, performance optimization, and resiliency planning.

In addition to hands-on engineering responsibilities, this role will serve as a senior technical resource for the team, providing mentorship and technical guidance to existing cloud and Microsoft 365 team members to help mature internal cloud capabilities.

This is full time, hybrid role based at our corporate headquarters in Rosemont, IL, reporting to the Principal System Engineer Manager.

• Design, deploy, and maintain Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Partner with peers to implement and manage Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, Load Balancers, and Storage Accounts.
• Configure and support Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings.
• Monitor cloud resource utilization and optimize performance and costs.

• Implement and maintain Azure security best practices and cloud governance standards.
• Administer Microsoft Entra /Azure Active Directory, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), and identity access management.
• Identify, monitor, and remediate cloud security vulnerabilities.
• Help ensure appropriate controls, policies, and standards are incorporated into the Azure environment.

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and Bicep.
• Build and support automated deployments using Azure Dev Ops and CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop scripts and automation using Power Shell, Azure CLI, and/or Python.

• Configure Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, cloud, and application issues.
• Provide Tier 2 and Tier 3 support for Azure-related incidents and service requests.
• Participate in on-call support rotations as required.

• Implement and maintain backup and recovery solutions using Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery.
• Perform disaster recovery testing and validation.
• Develop and improve high-availability, resiliency, backup, and recovery strategies for cloud-based systems.

• Partner closely with application, security, network, infrastructure, and operations teams.
• Work with the Cloud Architect to implement and mature the organization's Azure cloud…