Azure Platform Engineer

Goodwin Recruiting; West Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Goodwin Recruiting is seeking an experienced Azure Platform Engineer to join our Technology team in the Chicago western suburbs. You will help build, support, and optimize Microsoft Azure infrastructure as applications and services migrate to the cloud.

The role emphasizes hands-on Azure work within an enterprise setting, automation, and collaboration across infrastructure, security, and development teams to drive modernization and scalability.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Microsoft Azure experience in an enterprise environment.
• Experience with Azure infrastructure and hybrid cloud environments.
• Experience with Azure Monitor and Log Analytics for platform health.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Bachelor's degree in IT/CS or related discipline preferred, equivalent experience considered.

Responsibilities

• Build, administer, and support Microsoft Azure infrastructure and platform services.
• Support cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
• Maintain connectivity between Azure and existing on‑prem environments.
• Monitor Azure health, performance, availability, and capacity.
• Automate infrastructure administration and deployment where appropriate.
• Support Azure governance, security, access, and platform standards.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, identity, networking, development, and integration teams.

Skills

Azure

Cloud infrastructure

PowerShell

IaC

Azure DevOps

Monitoring

Networking

Troubleshooting

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS

Equivalent professional experience

Tools

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics

Entra ID

Infrastructure as Code tools

Job description

We are partnering with a growing global organization to identify an experienced Azure Platform Engineer to join its expanding Technology team in the Chicago western suburbs.

This role will play an important part in the organization's continued cloud modernization strategy, helping build, support, and optimize Microsoft Azure infrastructure as additional applications, middleware, data services, and business platforms move toward the cloud.

The ideal candidate will bring meaningful hands‑on Azure experience combined with strong enterprise infrastructure fundamentals. This person should enjoy building reliable cloud environments, solving complex technical problems, improving automation, and collaborating across infrastructure, networking, security, identity, application, and integration teams.

Azure Platform Engineer Responsibilities:

• Build, administer, and support Microsoft Azure infrastructure and platform services.
• Support cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
• Maintain reliable connectivity between Azure and existing enterprise environments.
• Support cloud‑hosted applications, middleware, and related infrastructure.
• Monitor Azure platform health, performance, availability, and capacity.
• Troubleshoot complex cloud infrastructure and connectivity issues.
• Automate infrastructure administration and deployment where appropriate.
• Support Azure governance, security, access, and platform standards.
• Partner with cybersecurity, identity, networking, development, and integration teams.
• Maintain platform documentation, procedures, and technical standards.
• Collaborate with Technology teams across multiple global regions.
• Help identify opportunities to improve scalability, reliability, automation, and overall platform maturity.

Azure Platform Engineer Qualifications:

• 3 to 7+ years of cloud, infrastructure, systems engineering, or related experience.
• Meaningful hands‑on Microsoft Azure experience in an enterprise environment.
• Experience supporting Azure infrastructure and hybrid cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking and connectivity concepts.
• Experience supporting cloud migrations or modernization projects.
• Experience with PowerShell or other infrastructure automation.
• Strong troubleshooting and root‑cause analysis skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across multiple Technology disciplines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Entra ID, Infrastructure as Code, Azure DevOps, or similar technologies is highly valued.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related discipline preferred. Equivalent professional experience will also be considered.

This is an opportunity to join a growing Technology organization during a significant modernization initiative and directly contribute to how its future cloud platform is built and operated.