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# Cloud and Automation Engineer

- **Company:** Mesirow Financial Holdings, Inc.
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $175,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Identity and Access Management, Ansible, Systems Integration, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Terraform
- **Published:** October 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/1_mesirow-49c82cb6

## About the Role

Requirements: Experience + A solution-oriented systems engineering mindset, paired with continuous improvement and being easy to work with across teams. + 5-10 years of demonstrated experience integrating and automating infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches, in a public cloud (Azure preferred) and in a virtualized or hyperconverged on-premises environment. + A track record of solving problems that cross multiple layers of the stack, not just working within a single platform or tool. + Experience working in cross-functional or squad-based delivery models, partnering with engineers, architects, and business stakeholders outside your immediate team.
Skills and Approach + Demonstrated experience with Terraform and Ansible, ideally applied in an Azure environment. + Strong grounding in core systems and cloud engineering principles: availability, scalability, security, cost, and operability, and the ability to reason about trade-offs between them. + A builder's mindset: default to automating and codifying solutions rather than performing repeated manual work. + A drive to optimize and re-engineer processes where it makes sense, rather than simply automating what's done today as-is. + Comfort operating across a hybrid environment, understanding how workload placement decisions affect cost, performance, resiliency, and support burden. + Strong troubleshooting instincts and the ability to work back from symptoms to root cause across interdependent systems. + Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to document designs and standards that other engineers can follow. + A genuine appetite
for learning: comfortable picking up new platforms, tools, and practices as the environment evolves, rather than anchoring to a fixed toolset. + Good judgment about when to build, when to buy, and when to simplify rather than automate around unnecessary complexity. + A reuse- and security-first mindset, applied in a way that keeps sight of user and developer experience rather than adding friction for its own sake.
Nice to Have + Exposure to identity and access management, networking, or telephony systems in addition to core infrastructure. + Experience contributing to architecture decisions or documentation (e.g., ADRs) rather than only implementing them. + Familiarity with reducing reliance on outsourced managed services through internal automation and tooling. + Experience working in a highly regulated financial services environment, including familiarity with the risk, compliance, and change-control expectations common there.