Tech Expert (Cloud Engineer – Direct-to-Consumer)
Job ID: 20006426
Location: Saint Louis, MO
Location: Saint Louis, MO
Job Category: IS/IT
Company: Information Technology at Nestle North America
Information Technology at Nestlé is a multicultural and diverse team of IT professionals driving the biggest IT operations landscape and digital transformation of the CPG, or Fast-Moving Consumer Goods industry. We enable Nestlé to engage with millions of consumers using a product-driven approach with leading technologies and solutions. Innovating through machine learning, advanced analytics and automation, we are driving industry 4.0 opportunities in areas like supply chain and manufacturing. To join our team, we’re looking for people who are curious, courageous, innovative, collaborative and passionate about solving complex problems using new technologies. Together, we make IT possible.
As a Cloud Hosting Engineer on our Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) technology team, you’ll be responsible for bringing the expertise needed to design and implement secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for our DTC platform. This scope includes assessing current cloud platform providers and solutions and architecting a desired future-state based on your technical expertise and knowledge of our business needs and platform roadmap. You will own the strategy, capability development, and implementation of our DTC cloud infrastructure, while also managing the vendors and managed service providers that provide cloud solution support activities.
In addition to the right technical expertise, you should also be able to design and communicate best practices around cloud infrastructure and DevOps that drive continuous improvement in performance, security and beyond among our internal teams and external partners. You should have a mindset for transformation and be ready to think about the people, processes and technology needed to take our DTC practices to the next level.
Primary Responsibilities
- Apply a platform-minded approach to design, implement and manage the applications and infrastructure solutions in Nestlé Purina DTC’s public cloud environments (Microsoft Azure, AWS)
- Work alongside the Nestlé Purina DTC Development Team to improve the way DTC platform technology is developed and delivered, including designing and implementing systems to improve reliability, scalability, security and performance
- Manage relationships with managed service providers to ensure support activities (monitoring, alerting, logging, incident management) are executed according to best practices and SLAs
- Develop processes for monitoring and testing application and infrastructure performance for bottlenecks and other performance issues; define processes for Development Team and/or MSPs to identify and implement fixes and improved solutions
- Provide recommendations for future-state needs (talent, MSPs, solutions, processes) to drive excellence in cloud hosting and DevOps practices for NPPC DTC
Required Qualifications
- 5 years’ experience in engineering and operating applications and infrastructure within Microsoft Azure and/or Amazon Web Services
- Experience implementing DevOps concepts and working with DevOps-related tools (Git, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, etc.)
- Experience in implementing and sustaining cloud infrastructure and applications according to substantial security requirements
- Experience with containers and container orchestration software platforms like Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
Preferred Qualifications
- Understanding of modern agile software development and DevOps practices; ability to design team structure and processes to support these practices
- Experience with using managed service providers for cloud support activit
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