Sr. Azure Cloud Engineer _Chicago, IL _ Hybrid

Overview

Full Time

Skills

Azure

Job Details

Sr. Azure Cloud Engineer
Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid Onsite Tue, Wed, Thu)
Fulltime
10+ yrs exp required
About the Role
We're looking for a Senior Azure Cloud Engineer to join the Entitlements team. This role blends architecture, engineering, and hands-on DevOps. You'll design and implement scalable solutions on Microsoft Azure, automate cloud infrastructure using Terraform, and shape CI/CD processes in a fast-moving, enterprise-grade environment.
What You'll Do
  • Lead design and implementation of scalable, secure, cost-efficient cloud solutions on Azure
  • Use Terraform to manage infrastructure as code and automate resource provisioning
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) with a focus on efficiency and repeatability
  • Implement SRE best practices: monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, DR
  • Ensure cloud security across IAM, data protection, and network security layers
  • Design with reliability and operations in mind: availability, scalability, backups, restore procedures
  • Collaborate with security teams to remediate findings and meet compliance standards
  • Mentor junior engineers on cloud architecture, best practices, and emerging tools
  • Work closely with DevOps, architecture, and application teams in an agile setup
What You Bring
Required:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
  • 10+ years in application development, building end-to-end enterprise systems
  • 5+ years hands-on experience in cloud engineering, ideally Azure
Technical Strengths:
  • Deep expertise in Azure and native services
  • Strong coding skills in Spring Boot, JPA, ReactJS
  • Experience with Azure Postgres, Cosmos DB, Azure Service Bus, Event Hub, Event Grid, Solace, Kafka
  • Database ops: backups, restores, failovers, replication
  • Monitoring: Azure Monitor, logging, and alerting frameworks
  • GitHub Actions for building CI/CD pipelines
  • Solid understanding of Agile/SCRUM workflows
Preferred Certifications:
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
Bonus:
  • Financial services industry experience

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