Senior Azure Cloud Engineer - Hybrid & Modernization Lead

LEVI, RAY & SHOUP, INC; Lake Forest (IL); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc is seeking a Senior Azure Cloud Engineer to join a growing financial services organization in Lake Forest, IL. This permanent role will serve as a technical leader responsible for the design, optimization, and evolution of Azure and hybrid infrastructure platforms.

The ideal candidate combines deep Azure expertise with strong networking, automation, and cloud architecture experience and enjoys driving modernization initiatives that improve security, scalability,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field is required.
• 8+ years in infrastructure, network, systems, or cloud engineering.
• 5+ years hands-on Microsoft Azure experience and enterprise design.
• Strong IaC and automation experience with Terraform, Bicep, ARM, PowerShell.
• Experience leading cloud transformation and security governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and management of Azure cloud infrastructure, networking, and hybrid connectivity.
• Drive cloud modernization, migration, optimization, and platform improvement.
• Design and support Azure networking (routing, DNS, VPN) and hybrid cloud architectures.
• Develop and maintain IaC solutions using Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, PowerShell, and Azure Automation.
• Design secure, resilient solutions integrating Azure, Entra ID, M365, and on-prem systems.
• Optimize for performance, scalability, availability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Partner with Information Security to support Zero Trust initiatives.
• Evaluate AI, Azure OpenAI, intelligent automation, IoT, and cloud-native services.
• Mentor infrastructure and cloud engineering team members and lead projects.
• Influence cloud architecture decisions across the organization.

Skills

Azure cloud

Cloud architecture

Networking

IaC

Mentoring

Education

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

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

PowerShell

Azure Automation

Job description

Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc is seeking a Senior Azure Cloud Engineer to join a growing financial services organization in Lake Forest, IL. This permanent role will serve as a technical leader responsible for the design, optimization, and evolution of Azure and hybrid infrastructure platforms.

The ideal candidate combines deep Azure expertise with strong networking, automation, and cloud architecture experience and enjoys driving modernization initiatives that improve security, scalability,