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 DoOwn Azure subscriptions, governance, RBAC, and cost managementDesign and run hub-and-spoke networking: VNets, NSGs, private endpoints, and VPN GatewaysOwn the Palo Alto infrastructure, including HA, Panorama, PAN-OS upgrades, and Prisma Access/GlobalProtectOwn the WAN and office LAN (Cisco Meraki)Run Azure Backup and Site Recovery and lead the annual DR testLead the migration of remaining data-center workloads into Azure using infrastructure-as-codeWhat We're Looking For5+ years of infrastructure engineering experience3+ years of hands-on Azure experience at the platform levelStrong 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 preferredAzure Backup/Site Recovery and DR testing experienceKubernetes (AKS preferred), Bicep or Terraform, and PowerShell or PythonWindows Server administrationFinancial services or PCI DSS experience is a strong plusAdditional DetailsCompetitive base salaryComprehensive benefits