Azure Cloud Platform Lead – Hybrid (Chicago)

Lenovo Inc.; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 283,000; Full time

Job summary

Lenovo Inc. in Chicago, IL is seeking an experienced Cloud Infrastructure Manager to lead the secure, scalable Azure platform across multi-region deployments.

You will own architecture, DR, capacity planning, and delivery infrastructure involving Azure Front Door, Application Gateway, Container Apps, API Management, Microsoft Foundry, and GitHub Actions. The ideal candidate combines deep Azure expertise with strong people leadership and accountability, partnering with AI engineering, data,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop the cloud platform team while maintaining hands-on technical leadership and sustainable support coverage.
• Own the platform roadmap, delivery priorities, operational risks, vendor relationships, and escalation paths.
• Establish clear service ownership and accountability across development, AI engineering, data, and security teams.
• Design and operate resilient multi-region Azure environments using appropriate active-active and active-passive patterns, availability zones, and dependency-aware routing.
• Define and manage service-level objectives, recovery time objectives (RTO), and recovery point objectives (RPO).
• Maintain and test regional failover, failback, backup, and recovery processes across PostgreSQL, Redis, storage, containers, configuration, and AI services.

Skills

Azure

Cloud leadership

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Policy as Code

PostgreSQL

Redis

KQL

CI/CD

Security

Education

Bachelor's in CS/IT

Tools

Azure Front Door

Application Gateway

Container Apps

API Management

Microsoft Foundry

Job description

Lenovo Inc. in Chicago, IL is seeking an experienced Cloud Infrastructure Manager to lead the secure, scalable Azure platform across multi-region deployments.

You will own architecture, DR, capacity planning, and delivery infrastructure involving Azure Front Door, Application Gateway, Container Apps, API Management, Microsoft Foundry, and GitHub Actions. The ideal candidate combines deep Azure expertise with strong people leadership and accountability, partnering with AI engineering, data,