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.

What You'll Do

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/GlobalProtect

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

What We're Looking For

5+ years of infrastructure engineering experience

3+ years of hands-on Azure experience at the platform level

Strong Azure networking experience (VNets, VPN Gateway, hub-and-spoke, NSGs, private endpoints)

Hands-on Palo Alto infrastructure experience (PAN-OS, HA, Panorama)

WAN/LAN ownership, Cisco Meraki preferred

Azure Backup/Site Recovery and DR testing experience

Kubernetes (AKS preferred), Bicep or Terraform, and PowerShell or Python

Windows Server administration

Financial services or PCI DSS experience is a strong plus

Additional Details

Competitive base salary

Comprehensive benefits