Cloud Infrastructure Specialist

4 weeks ago

Ajax, Ontario, Canada Colgate Full time
Job Title: Cloud Infrastructure Specialist

Colgate-Palmolive is a leading consumer products company that serves hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide with brands and products across four core businesses – Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition. We are committed to offering products that make lives healthier and more enjoyable, and programs that enrich communities around the world.

As a Cloud Infrastructure Specialist, you will play a key role in driving growth for Colgate Palmolive in this constantly evolving landscape. You will collaborate with Application Development, FinOps, Cloud, Governance, and Security teams to help formulate and implement a comprehensive cloud strategy. This includes developing frameworks, internal standards, governing policies, and procedures that align with organizational goals.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop and test to create quality solutions on time and within budget.
  • Collaborate with business teams and IT counterparts for daily support incidents and project activities in different business areas across all geographies.
  • Support FinOps initiatives by working closely with finance teams to optimize cloud spending, providing insights into cost management, and helping to forecast future cloud expenditures.
  • Guide application teams by offering technical leadership in cloud architecture, ensuring that solutions are designed for optimal deployment, security, performance, and high availability.
  • Evaluate and implement proof-of-concepts for emerging cloud services and technologies, ensuring that the organization stays ahead of industry trends.
  • Drive cloud adoption and innovation by exploring new cloud services and ensuring seamless integration with existing systems.
  • Perform regular cloud cost reviews and provide recommendations to improve efficiency and reduce waste.
  • Mentor and support teams in understanding cloud technologies, standard methodologies, and operational processes.
  • Stay informed of industry-wide trends and their potential impact or application to the business, ensuring the organization's cloud strategy remains forward-looking and innovative.

Requirements:

  • At least 4-6 years in Cloud Engineering.
  • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, team environment.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively communicate, both written and verbally.
  • Superior organization, project management skills, and attention to detail.
  • Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
  • Strong understanding of cloud computing capabilities and limitations, business drivers, virtualization technologies.
  • Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service Cloud delivery models.
  • A strong ability to learn new technologies.
  • Thorough understanding of system and infrastructure management in the Cloud environment (Linux/Windows servers, firewalls, load balancers, hypervisors, storage, monitoring, security etc.).
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure and services (GCP, AWS, etc.).
  • Experience with GCP services such as Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, and Kubernetes Engine. Hands-on experience with AWS services like EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda is acceptable and can be considered as a good foundation for the required GCP expertise.
  • Proficiency in configuring and handling virtual networks, including VPC, subnets, and firewall rules.
  • Experience handling infrastructure deployments using Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform).
  • Strong scripting skills in languages such as Python, Bash etc. for automating cloud operations.
  • Command of software automation production systems (GitHub, Selenium, etc.).
  • Good understanding of security principles and standard methodologies, including identity and access management, encryption, and compliance requirements.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Information Technology or Engineering.
  • Google Cloud Architect within 1 Year (Preferred) or AWS Certified Solution Architect - Professional.
  • Experience in architecting, implementing, and handling multi-cloud environments.
  • Understanding of infrastructure correlations with knowledge of servers, networking, AD, security etc.
  • Proficiency in handling and optimizing cloud costs using tools like Google Cloud's Cost Management tools or AWS Cost Explorer and other FinOps methodologies.
  • Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
  • Understanding of or ability to design solutions across on-premise and multiple public cloud tiers (hybrid).

Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status (United States positions), or any other characteristic protected by law.

Reasonable accommodation during the application process is available for persons with disabilities. Please contact Application_Accommodation@colpal.com with the subject "Accommodation Request" should you require accommodation.

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