Cloud and Edge Infrastructure Solution Architect 32756
Cloud and Edge Infrastructure Solution Architect 32756
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$ 102700 - 137000
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Position Title: Cloud and Edge Infrastructure Solution Architect
Position Type: Regular FullTime
Position Location: Florenceville GTC
Requisition ID:32756
JOB PURPOSE:
As a Cloud & Edge Solution Architect youll drive the success of our Cloud and Edge/OT solution Architecture through your design expertise and consultative approach. Youll collaborate with stakeholders to understand their technical requirements designing and documenting tailored solutions. Your blend of architecture and operations experience will enable you to accurately size work efforts and determine the necessary skills and resources for projects. Strong communication time management and process skills are essential for success in this role.You should have deep experience in defining Infrastructure solutions: Design Architecture and Solution Building blocks.
Role Overview
This Solution architect role helps teams (such as product teams platform teams OT teams and application teams) successfully adopt cloud infrastructure and platform services. It is heavily involved in design and implementation activities that result in new or improved cloudrelated capabilities and it brings skills and expertise to such areas as cloud technical architecture (for a workloads use of infrastructure as a service IaaS and platform as a service PaaS components); automating cloud management tasks provisioning and configuration management; and other aspects involved in preparing and optimizing cloud solutions.
Successful outcomes are likely to embrace infrastructureascode (IaC) DevOps and Agile ways of working and associated automation approaches all underpinned by the cloud infrastructure engineers solid understanding of networking and security in the cloud. The nature of the work involved means that the cloud infrastructure engineer will directly engage with customer teams but will also work on cloud infrastructure platform capabilities that span multiple teams.
This role collaborates closely with other architects product/platform teams software developers Cloud Engineers site reliability engineers (SREs) security and network specialists as well as other roles particularly those in the infrastructure and operations. Being an approachable teamplayer is therefore crucial for success and willingness to lead initiatives is important too.
The cloud infrastructure engineer also supports colleagues with complex (escalated) operational concerns in areas such as deployment activities event management incident and problem management availability capacity and servicelevel management as well as service continuity.
The cloud infrastructure architect is expected to demonstrate strong attention to detail and a customercentric mindset. Inquisitiveness determination creativity communicative and collaboration skills are important qualities too.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide expert knowledge on cloud infrastructure and platforms solutions architecture to ensure our organization achieves its goals for cloud adoption. This involves translating cloud strategy and architecture into efficient resilient and secure technical implementations.
- Define cloud infrastructure landing zones regional subscriptions Availability Zone to ensure HA resiliency and reliability of Infrastructure and applications
- Offer cloudengineering thought leadership in areas to define specific cloud use cases cloud service providers and/or strategic tools and technologies
- Support cloud strategy working on new cloud solutions including analysing requirements supporting technical architecture activities prototyping design and development of infrastructure artifacts testing implementation and the preparation for ongoing support.
- Work on cloud migration projects including analysing requirements and backlogs identifying migration techniques developing migration artifacts executing processes and ensuring preparations for ongoing support.
- Design build deliver maintain and improve infrastructure solutions. This includes automation strategies such as IaC configurationascode policyascode release orchestration and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and collaborative ways of working (e.g. DevOps). Participate in change and release management processes carrying out complex provisioning and configuration tasks manually where needed.
- Research and prototype new tools and technologies to enhance cloud platform capabilities. Proactively identify innovative ways to reduce toil and teach coach or mentor others to improve cloud outcomes using automation.
- Improve reliability scalability and efficiency by working with product engineers and site reliability engineers to ensure wellarchitected and thoughtfully operationalized cloud infrastructures. This includes assisting with nonfunctional requirements such as data protection high availability disaster recovery monitoring requirements and efficiency considerations in different environments.
- Provide subject matter expertise for all approved IaaS and PaaS services respond promptly to escalated incidents and requests and build reusable artifacts ready for deployment to cloud environments.
- Exert influence that lifts cloud engineering competency by participating in (and where applicable leading) organizational learning practices such as communities of practice dojos hackathons and centers of excellence (COEs). Actively participate in mentoring. Practice continuous improvement and knowledge sharing (e.g. providing KB articles training and white papers).
- Participate in planning and optimization activities including capacity reliability cost management and performance engineering.
- Establish FinOps Practices Cloud Cost management Scale up/down Environment creation/deletion based on consumption
- Work closely with security specialists to design implement and test security controls and ensure engineering activities align to security configuration guidance.
- Establish logging monitoring and observability solutions including identification of requirements design implementation and operationalization.
- Optimize infrastructure integration in all scenarios single cloud multi cloud and hybrid.
- Convey the pros and cons of cloud services and other cloud engineering topics to others at differing levels of cloud maturity and experience and in different roles (e.g. developers and business technologists). Be forthcoming and open when the cloud is not the best solution.
- Work closely with thirdparty suppliers both as an individual contributor and as a project lead when required. Engage with vendor technical support as the customer lead role when appropriate.
- Participate/Lead problem management activities including postmortem incident analysis providing technical insight documented findings outcomes and recommendations as part of a root cause analysis.
- Support resilience activities e.g. disaster recovery (DR) testing performance testing and tabletop planning exercises.
The role holder is also expected to:
- Ensure that activities are tracked and auditable by leveraging service enablement systems logging activity in the relevant systems of record and following change and release processes.
- Collaborate with peers from other teams such as security compliance enterprise architecture service governance and IT finance to implement technical controls to support governance as necessary. Work in accordance with the organizations published standards and ensure that services are delivered in compliance with policy.
- Promptly respond to requests for engineering assistance from technical customers as needed. Provide engineering support present ideas and create bestpractice guidance materials. Strive to meet servicelevel expectations.
- Foster ongoing closer and repeatable engagement with customers to achieve better scalable outcomes.
- Take ownership of personal development working with line management to identify development opportunities.
- Work with limited guidance independently and/or as part of a team on complex problems potentially requiring close collaboration with remotely based employees and thirdparty providers.
- Follow standard operating procedures propose improvements and develop new standard operating procedures to further industrialize our approach. Advocate for simplification and workflow optimization and follow documentation standards.
Skills and Experience in the following activities/working styles is essential:
- Experience working with customers and partners to design future state cloud/edge architecture and solutions
- Experience architecting cloud to edge platform system requirements use cases system flows hardware platform and software architecture that meets performance scalability reliability and security specifications
- Experience architecting and implementing public cloud platforms or edge services in two or more Cloud Service Provider networks (Azure AWS GCP etc.
- Implemented solution architectures for Cloud platform l( landing zone standards automated provisioning for all cloud services service catalogue) and Governance framework
- Implemented Cloud CoE Finops engineering practices
- Supported solution Data centre migration to Cloud
- Collaboration with developers (and other roles such as SREs and DevSecOps Engineers) to plan design implement operationalize and problem solve workloads that leverage cloud infrastructure and platform services.
- Working in an infrastructure or application support team.
- Cloud migration project experience. Data centre to Cloud IAAS Cloud Native Hybrid Cloud
- Cloud Edge/OT solution architecture experience leveraging Cloud networking Industry 4.0 Cloud offerings.
- Securing cloud platforms and cloud workloads in collaboration with security teams.
- Experience with DevOps/DevSecOps.
- Agile practices (such as Scrum/Sprints Customer Journey Mapping Kanban).
- Proposing new standards addressing peer feedback and advocating for improvement.
- Understanding of software engineering principles (source control versioning code reviews etc.
- Working in an environment that complies with Health and Manufacturing
- Eventbased architectures and associated infrastructure patterns
- Experience working with specific technical teams: R&D teams Data and analytics teams etc.
- Experience where immutable infrastructure approaches have been used
- Implementing highly available systems using multiAZ and multi region approaches
Skills and experience in the following technology areas:
- Experience with Azure GCP AWS SAP cloud provider services (Azure and SAP preferred)
- Experience with these cloud provider services is preferred: Infra Data App API and Integration Services
- DevOpstooling such as CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins Jira Confluence Azure DevOps/ADO TeamCity GitHub GitLab)
- Infrastructureascode approaches rolespecific automation tools and associated programming languages (e.g. Ansible ARM Chef Cloud Formation Pulumi Puppet Terraform Salt AWS CDK Azure SDK)
- Orchestration Tools (e.g. Morpheus Data env0 Cloudify Pliant Quali RackN VRA Crossplane ArgoCD)
- Knowledge of software development frameworks/Languages; e.g. Spring Java GOlang PHP Python
- Container management (e.g. Docker Rancher Kubernetes AKS EKS GKE RHOS VMware Tanzu)
- Virtualization platforms (e.g. VMware HyperV)
- Operating systems (e.g. Windows and Linux including scripting experience)
- Database technologies and caching (e.g. Postgres MSSQL NoSQL Redis CDN)
- Identity and access management (e.g. Active Directory/Azure AD Group Policy SSO cloud RBAC and hierarchy and federation)
- Monitoring tools (e.g. AWS CloudWatch Elastic Stack (Elastic Search/Logstash/Kibana) Datadog LogicMonitor Splunk)
- Cloud networking (e.g. Subnetting Route Tables Security Groups VPC VPC Peering NACLS VPN Transit Gateways optimizing for egress costs)
- Cloud security (e.g. key management services encryption other core security services/controls the organization uses)
- Edge/OT Infrastructure in cloud (Ex: Azure HCI Top of the rack Edge solutions)
- Landing Zone Automation solutions (e.g. Azure Landing Zone AWS Control tower)
- Policy guardrails (e.g. policyascode approaches cloud provider native policy tools Hashicorp Sentinel Open Policy Agent)
- Scalable architectures including APIs microservices and PaaS.
- Analyzing cloud spending and optimizing resources (e.g. Apptio Cloudability Flexera One IBM Turbonomic Netapp Spot VMware CloudHealth)
- Implementing resilience (e.g. multiAZ multiregion backup and recovery tools)
- Cloud provider frameworks (e.g. WellArchitected)
- Working with architecture tools and associated artifacts
General skills behaviors competencies and experience required includes:
- Strong communication skills (both written and verbal) including the ability to adapt style to a nontechnical audience
- Ability to stay calm and focused under pressure
- Collaborative working
- Proactive and detailoriented strong analytical skills and the ability to leverage a datadriven approach
- Willing to share expertise and best practices including mentoring and coaching others
- Continuous learning mindset keen to learn and explore new areas not afraid of starting from a novice level
- Ability to present solutions defend criticism of ideas and provide constructive peer reviews
- Ability to build consensus make decisions based on many variables and gain support for initiatives
- Business acumen preferably industry and domainspecific knowledge relevant to the enterprise and its business units
- Deep understanding of current and emerging I&O and in particular cloud technologies and practices
- Achieve compliance requirements by applying technical capabilities processes and procedures as required
Job Requirements
Education and Qualifications
Essential:
- Bachelors or masters degree in computer science information systems a related field or equivalent work experience
- Ten or more years of related experience in similar roles
- Must have worked on implementing cloud at enterprise scale
Desirable:
- Cloud provider/Hyperscalers certifications preferred.
- Experience with Rockwell Factory talk Edge cloud infrastructure
- Certification in Cloud solution architect
Compensation Package:$102700.00$137000.00CAD annually bonuseligibility
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience skill set education/training and other organizational needs.
Benefits: At McCainwere on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and wellbeing at the heart of what we do every day. We understand and appreciate that each persons needs are unique and ensure our benefits & wellbeing programs reflect that. Employeesare eligible for the following benefits:health coverage (medical dental vision prescription drug) retirement savings benefits and leave support including medical family and bereavement. Wellbeing programs include vacationandholidays companysupported volunteering time and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned to country provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level location and nature of the role.Additional benefit details available during the application process.
Your wellbeing matters to us and were here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse antiracist inclusive meritbased and equitable workplace. As a global familyowned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity resilience and success and makes our business stronger.
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Job Family:Information Technology
Division:Global Digital Technology
Department:Infrastructure Architecture
Location(s): CA Canada : New Brunswick : FlorencevilleBristol
CA Canada : Ontario : Toronto
Company:McCain Foods (Canada)
Employment Type
Full Time
