Unknown Company

Cloud Architect

chicago, cook county, il • Posted 2 days ago
Hybrid Full Time General

Infrastructure Cloud Architect

A leading law firm is looking for a senior Infrastructure Cloud Architect to help lead a major Azure-first hybrid infrastructure transformation.

This is a hands-on infrastructure architecture role, focused on Azure, networking, security, compute, storage, virtualization, resiliency, and hybrid infrastructure — not application architecture or DevOps. You’ll provide architectural direction while remaining close enough to the technology to design, build, implement, troubleshoot, and support solutions.

What You’ll Do

  • Design and implement Azure and hybrid-cloud infrastructure solutions
  • Develop infrastructure standards, architecture patterns, roadmaps, and technical designs
  • Work across Azure networking, VNets, routing, DNS, ExpressRoute, private endpoints, firewalls, load balancing, and segmentation
  • Architect compute, storage, virtualization, security, identity, and resiliency solutions
  • Support the law firm’s transition from legacy data centers toward Azure IaaS and new colocation environments
  • Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and serve as a senior technical escalation point
  • Develop architecture diagrams and Infrastructure as Code
  • Partner with engineering, security, and infrastructure teams on large-scale initiatives

What We’re Looking For

  • 10+ years of infrastructure engineering, architecture, or enterprise technology experience
  • Deep hands-on Microsoft Azure infrastructure experience
  • Strong hybrid Azure/on-premises experience
  • Solid networking and security fundamentals
  • Experience with compute, storage, virtualization, identity, RBAC, and governance
  • Infrastructure as Code experience
  • Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills
  • Ability to communicate architectural decisions to technical and business leadership
  • Someone who can still personally design, build, configure, implement, and troubleshoot infrastructure

The Hands-On Piece Matters

This is not a role for an architect who has moved entirely into strategy or oversight. During the first year, the role will be approximately 60% architecture/strategy and 40% hands-on implementation, troubleshooting, and operational support.

We’re particularly interested in senior infrastructure engineers ready to move into architecture and infrastructure/cloud architects who have remained hands-on.

Target backgrounds include Senior/Lead/Principal Infrastructure Engineer, Azure Infrastructure Engineer, Infrastructure Architect, Azure Infrastructure Architect, and Hybrid Cloud Architect.

If this is sounding like a good fit, apply now!

Cloud Architect in chicago at Unknown Company

This position is listed as full time and hybrid.

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